How many bikes is too many ?

rowdyflat

rowdyflat

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I have been building my own bikes for about 20 years , my last off the shelf bike was a 2003 Specialized Enduro that moved to Lismore [ for the better weather ] to live with safreek.
I have endless shed space but decided 10 is enough to ride. my wife has about 6 bikes.
So I have just given away about 5 old frames and some parts like 8 speed stuff.
How many bikes do you ride. ?
I spose if you live in an apartment its about 3 ?
 
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I have a few, not many compared to some people on here lol.
My pub roady is missing from this shot.
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rowdyflat said:
I have been building my own bikes for about 20 years , my last off the shelf bike was a 2003 Specialized Enduro that moved to Lismore [ for the better weather ] to live with safreek.
I have endless shed space but decided 10 is enough to ride. my wife has about 6 bikes.
So I have just given away about 5 old frames and some parts like 8 speed stuff.
How many bikes do you ride. ?
I spose if you live in an apartment itss about 3 ?
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Funny you mention the old speccy, I was trying to get it up and running today. Lost the bolt that holds the lower part of the shock. Seems like it has a tapered bolt, grrr

I have 8 oldie but goodies, I promised the other half if I didn't ride them at least once a month I would sell the unridden ones. That gets you riding them
 
3 that are in regular use - Giant roady and the Trance, and the Orange. The old Mongoose is intact and running, but rarely ridden. And an ancient Peugeot 1970s steel road bike I rescued from hard rubbish.
And Kirsty’s Soma Mixte, but with no bike paths in Hobart she’s not ridden it in a long time…
 
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safreek said:
Funny you mention the old speccy, I was trying to get it up and running today. Lost the bolt that holds the lower part of the shock. Seems like it has a tapered bolt, grrr

I have 8 oldie but goodies, I promised the other half if I didn't ride them at least once a month I would sell the unridden ones. That gets you riding them
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Yeah we thought that frame was so futuristic back in 2002.
Did some pretty amazing things on that Enduro, for years we had a big gap jump built of treated pine. over gold mine diggings.
Then those farkers from the Vic Dept of Name Changes decided to have a cool burn of the area and it burnt down and termites got some of suspended bridges 3-4m high no one ever fell.
I have been needing a challenge might go back there, its 10 mins away.
 
I have two in the lounge room (MTB's including the daily ridden, rubber mats on top of carpet to keep it 'clean'), two in the garage and a handful of BMX bikes that haven't been ridden in a while. (Will hang the BMX's on a wall one day).
We stayed in a friends apartment, 2 bedroom and there were 4 bikes (roadies) hanging on the wall next to the TV, good setup for a single bloke.
 
I have 3 and one of them is for sale and my wife just has one. It's the greatest number of bikes that I have ever had.
 
Depends...

For me, I have three now, which is way down from before. A real slack bike, a medium slack bike and a medium slack hard-tail is enough for me. My wife has two. I got rid of the BMX's as no way am I doing anything on concrete any more, including skateboarding or ripstiks.

Back in the day, when the outlaws had their massive place at the beach, which could accommodate three or more extended families, I built up endless hard garbage bikes, so we could all go foreshore riding together. At the garage sale, when the place was being sold, it was somewhere between 20 and 30 beach bikes we sold, can't remember.

Plus, I've got two motorbikes also.

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