What Bike(s) do you own?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My two bikes are:
A Rivendell Rambouillet touring/roadbike
and
a made-for-me Luna steel road bike.

both great bikes! The Luna fits me better though.

[Ana]

My Beauties
(very old) Trek Mountain Track 830
2007 LeMond Tourmalet
2009 Lynskey R230

Riding goals:

1. To ride more often
2. Improve my climbing skills
3. Ride 1,000 miles before the snow

Some other cycling goals:

1. Find a more comfortable saddle
2. Ride in at least one event this season
3. Ride at least semi-regularly with a club
4. Not buy another bicycle unless I sell one of the others

[kmehrzad]

My Beauties
(very old) Trek Mountain Track 830
2007 LeMond Tourmalet
2009 Lynskey R230

Riding goals:

1. To ride more often
2. Improve my climbing skills
3. Ride 1,000 miles before the snow

Some other cycling goals:

1. Find a more comfortable saddle
2. Ride in at least one event this season
3. Ride at least semi-regularly with a club
4. Not buy another bicycle unless I sell one of the others

I totally admire your last cycling goal ... it's a smart move but takes a great deal of willpower.

[Ana]

I totally admire your last cycling goal ... it's a smart move but takes a great deal of willpower.

Indeed!! I must admit that seeing all these new bicycles of other TE members (yay, spring!) does intensify the desire to consider acquiring an additional steed or two. Luckily, I am quite disciplined

Of course, I will not indefinitely limit myself to three bicycles. That would be silly

[runningteach]

Love this thread!

My bikes
I have a Specialized Dolce Sport, not sure of the year, think 2006, Trek 4500 mountain bike, not sure of the year, think 2006 and my new one a Look 566,2009. I have retired the Specialized even though I had planned on continuing to ride it. It just isn't comfortable anymore, but I am not ready to part with it. The Look fits so much better and I can tell the difference when I get on the Dolce.

Biking
I try to exercise 5-6 days a week and focus on time. When the roads weren't icy I was taking the bike out 5 days a week. Icy makes me nervous so I was stuck on the trainer for a while. Since I love being outside I was walking for some workouts. Now I am back at it and road 5 days this week. Not sure how many miles I am putting in. My bike doesn't have a sensor on the back wheel so trainer rides don't let me know mileage. Wish I invested in the better computer.

Goals
My goal is to ride 5 days a week and try to log in as many miles as I can. I would love to do a century,but I get fatigued and my lupus makes it hard to put in long workouts. Today I did 1:45 on the trainer and it felt good to push it. Also nervous about group riding. I ride solo.

I admire all of you ladies who get out there and do centuries and race.

[featuretile]

I have one bike - a 2007 Specialized Ruby Comp. I changed to a 12-32 rear cassette and long cage derailleur for the hills and now it's perfect! I'm thinking of getting a folding bike so that I can have one when I travel - probably a stock or used Bike Friday or a Xootr Sport. I sold my hybrid and got a Vita, sold the Vita and got the Ruby.

I have been riding for one year. I usually ride 3-4 times a week from between 60-90 miles (when it's not raining). When it's raining, I go to the gym and do water aerobics and weight machines.

Goals for this year:
1. Ride from Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara (about 270 miles) with a group.
2. Keep up with intermediate club riders.
3. Get better on hills.
4. Up the average distance of my rides from 20-25 miles to 35-40 miles.

[Slowspoke]

Down to Three bikes:

Giant Sedona DX (The Cloud) currently residing with my sister.

Gary Fisher Marlin with slicks for cruising around town. I call it my urban assault machine! Her name is Skittles because of the multi colored add ons!

Bianchi Eros Donna in Kandy Mango. She goes by the name of Carmen and we credit card tour and do longer rides.

Happy for now but you never know!!!

[rubywagon]

- Specialized Ruby
- Trek 4300 MTB

My goal this year is to complete 3 centuries.

[jdubble]

My bikes:

• 1996 Trek 700 Multi-Track hybrid w/ Xtracycle - purchased in grad school, converted to be my minivan last October

• 1999 Sycip road tandem - our wedding present to ourselves. Doesn't get used so much these days, but we're hoping to put a stoker conversion kit on it so that our almost 7 year old can ride it with one of us and start getting him out on some longer rides

• 2001 Torelli Corsa Strada road bike - this was my 30th bday present from my husband and I love it. In February for my 39th bday, we just upgraded the Campy Veloce 9 speed gruppo to the Athena 11 speed. I sometimes think I want to try a lighter road bike, just to see if it would improve my hill climbing and speed, but this fits me so perfectly and is just so comfy that I can't quite motivate to do it.

• 2008 Felt F1X cross bike - just got this off of eBay 2 weeks ago and haven't ridden it more than around the block yet. We re-ran the brake cable yesterday, after removing the in-line brakes, and I still need to adjust the rear derailleur before I can get out and see how I like it. The stem feels a little long and the handlebars feel a little wide, but we'll see!

• 2009 Sweetpea custom 650b mixte - my 'round town, do everything bike, but dang, it can haul *** when I want or need it to. And it can climb well too, thanks to the compact double on the front and 11-34 mountain cassette on the rear. Someday, I hope to do some longer tour rides with it since I have a front and rear rack for it. When the boys are older and we can do some bike camping. I love and adore this bike and it was well worth the wait.

I also have a hand-me-down Trek 5200 OCLV, that lives at my in-law's cottage in Michigan. It's a touch big for me, but I only ride it for 2 weeks a year, so that's ok.

Goals:

• Ride as much as I can, whenever I can. Sometimes, that means 2 miles a day, taking the boys to school and back. I'd love to get out on long "real" rides more often, but until both of them are in full-day school, five days a week, I don't see it happening. And since my husband rides too, we usually have to divvy up the weekend mornings.

• My other goal is to ride and finish at least one cross race this fall.

• Get stronger on hills. I've been working at this, and I'm getting better, but I've got a ways to go still.

• Finally do a century. I've done a metric century, but never a full 100 miles. It's about darn time.

[SheFly]

Bikes (sorry - don't know all the model years):

- 2010 Specialized Tarmac team bike (DH just finished the build today)
- 2006 or 07 Kestrel Evoke
- 200? Rocky Mountain Turbo
- 2009 Specialized Transition TT bike
- Cannondale Tandem (since we have 2 of these, I can count one as mine, right?)

- Specialized TriCross
- Ridley Cross Fire
- Kona Major One (SS)

- Specialized Epic Marathon
- Soul Cycles Hooligan (SS)
- Unnamed Carbon Hardtail MTB

Yeah - um, N+1 is definitely in effect at my house

As to which I ride the most? Can't tell you. In the winter, on the rollers, it's been the Rocky Mtn. In race season, it will be the Tarmac. All depends on what I am doing, or feel like riding. I know that life is tough in my world when my biggest decision of the day is which bike to ride .

Goals for this year:

Racing for our women's Elite team, so hoping not to suck!

SheFly

[pfunk12]

Bikes:

2006 Trek 1600 - a friend gave this one to me since it was too small for her. After riding it for a while, I realized it was also too small for me so it's in storage.

2009 Trek Madone 4.5 - this is my commuter bike so it's the one I ride the most.

2009 Trek Madone 5.2 - my favorite

Since I try to commute 4 out of my 4 working days (weather and schedule permitting) and I try to do long rides on the weekends, at a minimum, I am riding around 150-200 miles per week. Once the weather gets nicer, the mileage will increase.

2010 goals:

Try to figure out how to get faster (if possible) since I might start racing and I would like to be able to hang with the faster riders on the group rides.

Trying to be more consistent with the weekend group rides (in other words, DON'T sleep in!)

A couple of centuries (did my first one in September and it was a blast).

Keep on enjoying it!

[KnottedYet]

My bikes:
[LIST]

• 2009 Sweetpea custom 650b mixte - my 'round town, do everything bike, but dang, it can haul *** when I want or need it to. And it can climb well too, thanks to the compact double on the front and 11-34 mountain cassette on the rear. Someday, I hope to do some longer tour rides with it since I have a front and rear rack for it. When the boys are older and we can do some bike camping. I love and adore this bike and it was well worth the wait.

Envy, envy, envy! Natalie works on bike projects with Michael Sylvester, who trained me in bike fitting. After hearing him talk about her and her bikes, I soooooo want one!

I love, love, love her blog: http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/ Anyone who will mention Billy Collins in their blog is hotsy-totsy in my list.

(meanwhile I have 3 lovely bikes, but I also ascribe to the "perfect number of bikes to own is n+1" theory)

[azfiddle]

I have two bikes:
2009 Fuji Finest 2.0
1983 Nishiki Custom Sport mixte

I ride the Fuji most of the time. The Nishiki is for going to the store, post office, etc. when I have time to do my errands by bike.

I have been riding 3-5 days a week, 50-100 miles, enjoying the opportunity to ride during the winter in Arizona.

[annielynn]

Just a Poll - What bike or bikes do you own? What do you ride the most? What are your 2010 riding goals? How many days a week do you ride and total weekly mileage?

Currently I own a 2010 Trek 2.1 WSD and an OLD walmart brand mountian bike. Which is currently the go to the grocery store and pull my 2 year old around in a trailer bike. It is really heavy! I ride my Trek the most these days. Only on the weekends do I lug the mountain bike out. I am grateful to have it thought.

2010 Riding Goals
-In september I will be doing the metric century Assault on Sugarloaf with my hubby. Climbing the hills of Clermont, Fl.
-I want to ride at least 4 times a week either on my trainer or with the group. Now that the sun is out later I will be able to ride with my club on Wednesday nights.
-Hill training.
-To keep up with Hubby!

I ride with my cycling club on the Sat, Sun and Wed. I try to make at least 2 of these. I average about 60-80 miles a week. Not too shabby!

[Desert Tortoise]

Hi!

New here, love the forum!

Bikes: 2004 Specialized Stumpjumper (mtn)
2007 Scott CR1 Pro (road)

Ride the Scott since I can't get to the trails to ride the mtn bike. I'm a stay-at-home mom so don't have the time to drive to the trailheads (none near me) and do anything worthwhile without lots of rushing. Now that my son is in preschool I can get a good ride in and get a few things done while he is in school. Hoping to ride the mtn bike soon, I really miss it.

2010 goals are to pickup my riding again (not a friendly winter healthwise) and get back into the swing of things.

Back to riding at least 3x a week for 100 miles total.