i've turned into a bike stasher.

[Yelsel]

Gosh, I seem to have started a mixte stash... one is getting completely rehabbed and rehomed (Raleigh Sprite 5 - lovely bike but ultimately not my style), one is a very long-term project to end up with a nice light fixed gear (an early 1970s Raleigh Super Course - good bones but had a really hard life recently), and one is going to be turned, hopefully rapidly, into a fixed gear for a winter commuter -- this is one of the Bianchi hybrid mixtes, heavy as sin but with the chops to handle more challenging road conditions.

Or alternatively, a Bianchi stash: 2005 Bianchi Castro Valley (Volpe frame, sold as a 9-speed commuter); 1998 Bianchi Eros - comfort road / light touring; 1996ish Bianchi CX - celeste lugged steel cyclocross, swoon. And now the 1986/7 Bianchi Boardwalk, the "poor cousin" hybrid mixte.

[jp4995]

Knitter and spinner here as well, and I second the tendancy to build a biking stash. I've been VERY good and haven't bought any yarn since I got my bike 5 weeks ago. I think that's one of the biggest dry spells I've ever had . Of course... I had to buy bike shorts, and then it got cold so tights and a jacket, and gloves, and...

[Tropical Scream]

I'm a knitter and a quilter. Since I started riding, I've been doing good to get a couple of rows done on a baby sweater now and then.

I'm barely enough of a rider to do justice to my Sirrus and I'm already looking at a Ruby.

And it's a good thing we don't have any room in our small place. Last night I told my partner, "Wouldn't it be fun to get a frame and learn how a bike is put together from scratch?"

I think I'm doomed.

[blackhillsbiker]

Knitter and crocheter. My stash is one of the family jokes. I taught #1 daughter to knit so I'd have an excuse to buy more yarn – not really, but it does help use up the stash. Now I have 2 bikes. I see a trend developing here.

Deb

[Yelsel]

I've just moved, but I got the yarn stash set up in its temporary home today... it is an iterative process, putting up shelves to unpack boxes so I have space to put up more shelves. So right now on one wall is a 4x4 Ikea "cube" of yarn (it will need a 5x5 cube once I unpack the knitting books as well), and on the facing wall is a 5x5 Ikea "cube" of bike stuff: cleaning, tools, clothes, bike parts / accessories (sorted by bike), general accessories... It makes me really happy sitting here between them, and looking at my Eros on the trainer.

I guess I should just say a steel bike stash, since I left out the orange 1972/3 Schwinn Stingray Fastback that I'm going to clean up and play with -- will likely spend most of its time displayed on the living room wall. (I will clean and keep all the original components, but it will be getting sparkly green handgrips, new BMX wheels with sweetskinz diamondback tires, and a bright green single-speed chain... maybe a long riser bar with a green "seatbag" or flag as well.) The living room is green with orange accents...