When’s too many bikes enough ?

how’s about spreading it
how’s about spreading it evenly over the entire carpet, and just make it less cream more dark grey in colour?

Too many bikes? Is such a
Too many bikes? Is such a thing even possible?

I think when you have to consider, forcing eldest child to leave home, building an extension or even moving house, there may be a slight issue. :H
But heck – Kids needs to stand on their own 2 feet sooner or later, and I never liked my old neighbours anyway :H :H

Miles253 wrote:Out of

Miles253 wrote:

Out of interest, what jobs do you guys work? I need me some of that if I want 5 bikes! Also tips for keeping partners happy?

Currently I have just the one main bike, Alu, had three but am travelling so needed to raise funds. Two planned when I returned.

I’m a sysadmin for Gov’t IT….it’s pretty humble to be fair! One of my bikes I had to buy for half price after being loaned it from my old company, one was a hand me down from the BF, one’s being bought by hire purchase, ones a team bike that I’ve to give back (cries!).

Not sure how the other half manages to buy so many though, he’s far too good with money! >.<

Well, I am 6 or 7 bikes into
Well, I am 6 or 7 bikes into a bit of an issue on the home front….it all started with an aluminium LeMonde, kinda racy, once i’d upgraded everything bar the decals, but it somehow wasnt ‘old enough’, so i found myself a 1982 Eddy Mercx, the prettiest bike on the planet, but it was, and i knew it at the time, but couldnt help myself, too small for me. So, i got myself a beautiful opalescent orange, 1978 Koga Myate with original Dura Ace, to replace the Eddy….

That should have been the end of that, but, a man who shall remain nameless, invited me to go to Paris…oooh i thought, Paris, what shall I ride?
He appeared with a carbon Focus Cayo. ‘Try this for size’, he said, nonchalantly. Great i said, i havent got a carbon frame.

Then the same man, appeared with a beaten up but somehow majestic dutch vintage VandeVeire road bike that had a Campagnola drive train, and i thought oooohhhh, Campy, I havent got any Campy. This is now my abslolute favourite go to ride.
Then, one day, the same bloke appears and says, ‘fancy riding to to Waterloo (the one on the other side of the pond) on a fixie?’. I havent got a fixie I said…And true enough, i didnt have a fixie…for about 30 minutes…

Finally, no, not finally, but for now – just last week i went to ‘Bespoked’ and there it was a ‘Faggin’…a frame out of the same factory that built all of Mercx’s frames (regardless of what it said on the label)…and i thought…mmm i havent actually got a new bike. I’d better start saving.

For some girls it handbags and clothes. For me its bikes and underwear. You can never have too many sets of nice underwear and you can never, never have too many pretty bikes.

Simples. The formula for ‘too
Simples. The formula for ‘too many bikes’ is N+2, where N is the number you currently have.

But only if (a) your partner – if you have one – is also a cyclist; and (b) you keep separate back accounts.

I think the limit of n+1 is
I think the limit of n+1 is more about space than money. Unfortunately I have lots of space so I have

531 restored steel wet weather bike
Alu wet weather bike
Alu dry bike
Rigid fork MTB ice bike pemanently fitted with ice tyres
Hardtail MTB

The next +1 is a Ti frame for the dry bike.

Iv had notions or a recurring
Iv had notions or a recurring thought that I could stash my least used bike which is a MTB that I keep for really bad winter weather in a cupboard at work. (How silly is that) . This would free up space ! But iv learnt from personal experience that one half bad accident , “no matter how many bikes in the stable” , renders one only capable of looking at the them. I don’t want to put a downer on bike collecting , spend, spend, spend if you want but realistically we are all only a hairs breath away from that . As without doubt a sizeable percentage of us know .

I think I may have a problem.
I think I may have a problem. I did get down to three about six months ago, now up to five with two more in the pipeline… There is a fair amount of subterfuge and creative accounting involved. I need to find new hiding places.

Best carbon bike
Commuter hack (Dolan track frame with the brilliant Sturmey two-speed kick hub)
Aluminium winter bike currently on the turbo with TT bars for fun
Old School mountain bike I never ride (but can’t bear to lose) – must take it out for a spin
Folding bike

Miss my steel crosser

Titanium do-it-all on order and vintage steel in my dreams.

Perfectly reasonable, no?

“Is that a new bike?”
“What, this old thing?”