Foo - How many bikes is too many?

Ok, I have two built up and one frame on the way--been feeling guilty about
buying another frame, because 1) I don't strictly need it 2) I probably consume more
than my fair share of resources and 3) I got it because I just liked it a lot--not any
other reason. I finally justified it by thinking "well, when I eventually live car free it would
be good to have an extra frame or two handy." Anyway, I ramble, I digress. . .

How many y'all have? I know someone who has around 8 and counting.

I originally only had one bicycle. It's a 15-speed mountain bike with heavy tires but I made great use of it. Years later, I was given a 21-speed mountain bike with newer shifting and lighter tires. So far, I've used my newer bike for longer rides in road cycling and touring. The older one I've kept for offroad cycling and used it as a spare when my newer bike was in the shop.

I think having three bikes would be too many.


"...You know you're addicted to bicycling when you've just bought a new bicycle but are thinking of the next one you'll buy."

How many y'all have? I know someone who has around 8 and counting.

I currently have 15 bikes in various states of disrepair.:rolleyes: A couple of roadsters, a couple of three-speeds, a couple of folders, ...

The correct number is either n+1 or as many as you have storage space for.:D

I could see myself having 7:
- Steel touring/cross bike
- Folder
- Full suspension MTB
- Xtracycle
- Nice steel fixed gear (summer edition)
- Beater fixed gear (winter edition)
- Carbon road bike

:D

I don't really want that many bikes, but I could theoretically justify all of them if I were in a sufficiently bike-friendly place (and had a lot of money to burn). Of those, I've got the folder and the cross bike. Of the ones I don't have, I think I'd be most interested in an Xtracycle.

When you no longer have enough room in the garage for another. Wish I could change garages with Robin Williams. Hope we are the same inseam size.

winter bike.
racing bike.
town bike.

that's more than enough for me.

Lets see:
5 mtbs
3 Road bikes
1 BMX
Plus my wifes 3 bikes.

Nope, not enough yet, I need at least one more.

I currently have 8.
4 are complete, 2 are waiting on just a few parts that are on order, the other two are combining as we speak with one to emerge.

I am going to sell a couple, though.

Probably to fund buying more.

I've got a few. But I'm considering selling two of them. The only time you have too many bikes is when you find you aren't riding them. Since I got the road bike I haven't been riding the comfort bike or the FS Kona.

Um. I maybe have about 6 bikes. :o That's pretty much my limit since I'm out of garage wall space for hanging them.

Pssst! (get a shed - that's what I did!) :D

I feel that I'm about at the point of having enough. I have:

One rigid mountain bike
One three speed
One "touring" bike
One fixed gear
One old (1950's) British bike
One nostalgia bike (same model and color as my first good bike)
One nice Japanese bike
One exceptionally nice Raleigh (it will be back home from painter soon)
One go-fast British bike (might be selling it soon though)
One go-fast American bike (reason I might be selling the bike above)

That's 10 (not counting my son's 2 bikes or my wife's unridden bike, the 1939 womens' 3 speed, rod brake bike I have waiting to be restored and sold, the Schwinn LeTour I'm fixing up to sell, or the beat to crap little Peugeot gas pipe frame that I haven't decided what to do with yet) but I'm finding I could live with one or two fewer. :D

HMMM..
3 mtb's
3 roadie's
1 bmx
im running out of room living in a apt in nyc

Never too many bikes!

Nonesense! N + 3 where N is the number you currently have is too many. A max of two new additions to the family at a time, please. :p

the title of this thread is just silly talk. too many bikes? not possible to achieve. kthxbai.

I r wanting 3 more bikes

One TT
One Fixed Gear
One scott CF MTB to replace my Target Schwinn

That's too many, I tell you! N + 3 is too many! :p

hmm

-one mountain bike ready to ride
-one mountain bike in pieces, frame needs welding/replacing
-another mountain bike thats in pieces waiting for paint to fully cure (week or two) gonna be my beater
-Road bike
-bmx bike

i need a few more....:D

As many as you have, plus...two

Buy them one at a time :)

I have two roadies and a mtn bike. Wife has a roadie and a mtn bike. Both boys have BMX bikes. I would like to add a bmx bike to my stable to ride with the boys.

I don't really exist. You just think I do.

I think, therefore you are!

One short of divorce.

I am currently at three, and I feel they meet my needs, but more could definitely meet them better.

Fixed gear (for running around town)
Road Bike (for racing / training)
Hardtail MTB (for having fun in the mud)

I have two roadies and a mtn bike. Wife has a roadie and a mtn bike. Both boys have BMX bikes. I would like to add a bmx bike to my stable to ride with the boys.

You'll want pads for your knees and your chin if you get that BMX bike. Most kids who ride those around have no clue about ergonomics.

I have my kids bikes set up where they sit and pedal correctly, for the time being. this too will change. If I buy a BMX, it will be adult sized. Like a DK General Lee 24 (http://www.dkbicycles.com/bikes/bikes.html). It is the big orange bike in the dirt section.

I got 9 bikes

road
-------
fast light roadbike
new cx bike
TT bike
brompton

dirt
-------
surly KM
surly 1x1
specialized rock hopper
litespeed tellico

events/style
-------
custom chopper bike

Race bike
Rain bike
Neo-retro classic steelie
Period-correct classic steelie
Tri bike
POS mountain bike

and one on the way: Fixed gear cyclocrosser

Race bike
and one on the way: Fixed gear cyclocrosser

what kind of fixed cyclocrosser--sounds interesting

what kind of fixed cyclocrosser--sounds interesting

The IRO Rob Roy group buy. Check out the thread in the cyclocross thread. I'm planning to mostly use it as an all-season commuter and then I can throw knobby tires on it to take up to Tahoe.

Youv'e reached the level of "too many" bikes when the gravitational force of all your bikes combined starts preventing light from leaving the room they are stored in...until then, collect away!

Ok, I have two built up and one frame on the way--been feeling guilty about
buying another frame, because 1) I don't strictly need it 2) I probably consume more
than my fair share of resources and 3) I got it because I just liked it a lot--not any
other reason. I finally justified it by thinking "well, when I eventually live car free it would
be good to have an extra frame or two handy." Anyway, I ramble, I digress. . .

How many y'all have? I know someone who has around 8 and counting.

When you cant ride all of them during a week or a month. Or when you have no use for certain bikes, or no longer use them.

Currently 1 in the bedroom, 1 in the living room and 1 in the kitchen. There's no way I'm going to keep them in the garage where they could get dirty :D

I had 7, but shared the love with a nephew who is now loving his "new" machine.

Now, I'm down to 6 ..... the perfect number. :D

... Brad

add the number of digits on your person, then multiply by 12.

That should be the maximum sum diameter (in inches) of all your bicycle wheels.

You can never have enough. I currently have 4. 2 road and 2 dirt. I am itching to build another road next year....shhhh don't tell wifey.:D:D

I'm at 6 now and I think I'm done... but come to think of it, I'd like maybe a another roadie... ummm... maybe a hard tail MTB....OK, maybe I'm not done. :)

Fixie
Road
Touring
CX
MTB - Full Suspension
MTB - Full Rigid