Mountain Biking - How many Bikes do you currently own?

Some may say i'm a addict. I say each one has its purpose. My wife says i'm crazy. LOL.
What do you guys think.

1. road bike=racing and training
2. cross bike= cross fun
3. fixed gear= Training during the winter
4. steel road bike= Charity rides sunday long rides
5. Track bike= Fun!
6. Mountain bike= The whole reason I ride a bike!

and couple spare frames.

One Million Bikes!
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(and my thiny's bigger)

if the mountain bike is the whole reason you ride why do you only have 1?

if the mountain bike is the whole reason you ride why do you only have 1?

Probably because he has just one ass for the saddle, & only one foot for each pedal. I think it would be remarkably difficult to ride more than one mountain bike at a time...so why have more than one?

C'mon Sam...that's like telling a home mechanic to do all his work with some Channel Locks.

One more than I should.

C'mon Sam...that's like telling a home mechanic to do all his work with some Channel Locks.

Haha I know. I was trying to set him up to answer his own question by saying something along the lines of "For different kinds of riding." so I could set him straight that not everyone has multiple kinds of mountain bike trails in their area. Because for what I have in my immediate area, one FS XC bike is more than sufficient. (but then again, I would mind having a Ti hardtail for some of the smoother trails..)

3 road bikes
2 mountain bikes
1 touring bike

^^ . . . and, of course, EVERYONE needs a rigid, steel, singlespeed 29er whip in their stable.

roadie
CX
singlespeed 29er
gear'd 29er

Would my Santana Tandem count as 1 1/2 since one bike but it takes 2 to ride? Well one can ride it, but I do not recommend it?

Ah, what the heck, I'll play along.

XC FS
AM HT
BMX
24 DJ
rigid 29er...aka road bike
tribike

Me
2009 BMC Road Racer - Road training (racing someday)
1986 Cannondale R600 - Commuter
1993 Bontrager OR Race Lite - Light SS goodness
2007 Specialized Enduro Expert - Trail bike

Wife
2009 Giant Trance
1997 KHS Road Bike

Daughter
2010 Specialized HotRock 24 Mountain version

Son
2009 HotRock 20

Mom
Some ancient 80 lbs women's drop bar havin', coaster brake shod, cruiser of some sorts, complete with rust...

Later this year, the wifey gets a replacement road bike, and I get a mountain bike for racing (Epic probably). Son will probably get a BMX bike and a 24" mountain bike to replace his HotRock 20 within the next year and a half. Also, buying my mom a new ride. Clunker needs to go!

CH1llg, the way I get around the wife thing, is we are about the same hight, so I can always say, well I got that bike for you, or for us in the case of the tandem.

So under the hers / mine ( wink ) we have 11 and 2 trail-a- bikes for the kids

One mountain bike (same one for about 10 years too) and one road bike. That's all I really need.

In my sig. Plus have enough parts except for a frame to build another cross bike.

2 mtn (1ht, 1dh)
2 road (1 steel, 1 plastic)
1 cross
1 tri
1 ghey folder (used for mtn, cross or road)

^^ You got enough there for a rad sig!




:D

1 FS, 1 owned HT, and 1 HT that the owner says to have fun with.

1) Nashbar full rigid Mountain bike. Pictures to be posted shortly

2) 1985 Univega Super Strada road bike.

3) My early 80's Schwinn Mirada ATB. Came with 650b rims. It's been converted to 700c rims, V-brakes, and 8 speed rear cassette. This is the bike I ride when I am going to be locking it up for a while out of view. Normal pedals on it so's I can use it for general errands. Heavy & not particularly nimble. Works better than it has a right to as a city bike. $25.00 off Craigslist.

There's a 2007 Hardrock frame in my garage, a warranty replacement from Specialized. Studying the feasibility of turning it into a cyclocross-ish bike

Latte.
Chai latte.
Espresso.

Because for what I have in my immediate area, one FS XC bike is more than sufficient.

There's always room for a dj bike to hone your bike handling skills in the sub-erbon jungle.

I've got DH, AM (heavy), AM (lite), and 4X bikes and enjoy the variety.

There's always room for a dj bike to hone your bike handling skills in the sub-erbon jungle.

True. I used to have a Redline Proline Expert that I fiddled with for a while after I quit racing, but I outgrew it at around 14. Sold it last summer...might have to throw together a budget DJ for my next build (or just buy one from chainlove...that's one of the few good things they still sell). I actually do have a really good BMX track about 15 minutes from the house where I used to race when I was a kid.

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Oh & for the sake of contributing to the topic, I have a 2001 GF Wahoo--fully rigid by sturdy enough to manage--& 90% of a FS KHS XC bike.

Three bikes

I guess if you include my girlfriends bike.

4 full and 3-5 fractions.

2006 Specialized Allez - Road Bike
2006 Giant FCR (Dropbar Conversion) - Touring Bike
2010 GT Avalanche 3.0 Disc - MTB
1982(ish) Open Road 10 - Road Bike (Comfort Bar Conversion)

A whole bunch of parts and some frames lying around to build up at some point.

But I did however just move into a newer bigger house with plenty of room for more bikes.

1 road
1 FS mountain
1 CX
1 TT

Road bike
MTB
Commuting/errand fixed gear
Utility/errand/off-road touring mountain bike
Tandem
(and my wife's commuter)

i have at least 8. some of them need small stuff like tires but i would still drive on them without.

One for each day of the week.

one for each day of the week.

bawliing!!!!

I has four.

1 FS bike
1 SS bike
1 Plastic road bike - Sitting against the wall in the house looking pretty duty
1 Steel road bike - Commuting/burley trailer duty

I has four.

1 FS bike
1 SS bike
1 Plastic road bike - Sitting against the wall in the house looking pretty duty
1 Steel road bike - Commuting/burley trailer duty

That is a good bike to have right there. (the Idle Warrior or the Sleeping Giant effect)

1 titanium
1 aluminum
1 carbon
2 mountain
oh yeah one time trial
yikes when you list it out makes you realize it's maybe time to part with a few......

2 full rigid bikes- one old one for rain & bus commutes, one's new (main commuter)
1 hardtail that lives with family in Flagstaff
1 FS for trails
1 recumbent

Well, . . . lessee . . .

'71 Suzuki TS 125
'69 Suzuki TS 250
'67 Suzuki 80 K15P Trail
'77 Yamaha IT 175
'?? Honda Mini-Trail
'68 Van Tech (pre-Grant Ind.) racing frame


Oops, wrong forum :o

-Hardtail 29er.
-SS cyclocross (well two speed right now)

Have enough parts and the frames for:
-fixed gear road
-geared cyclocross

But they are not built up right now and I'm in no real rush.

^^ WOW - 9K posts and the sweetest sig EVER

This is for Dminor not M_S

I'd venture to say that he's guestimating the year on the uni:lol:

if cycling was my only hobby... i'd have more bikes than I could stand. but, cycling is not my only hobby... so, i have two. purchasing mtn bike when i move back down to birmingham(they actually have single track there) within the next 6mon's.

1. road bike
2. hybrid bike


next purchase: mtn bike.

I'd venture to say that he's guestimating the year on the uni:lol:

Doubt it...he was in his 40s when he got it brand new in 1967. He should be able to remember that.

if cycling was my only hobby... i'd have more bikes than I could stand. but, cycling is not my only hobby... so, i have two. purchasing mtn bike when i move back down to birmingham(they actually have single track there) within the next 6mon's.

1. road bike
2. hybrid bike


next purchase: mtn bike.
thats a good point. My bikes are in addition to 2 kayaks, Full Rock climbing gear, (about $900+ worth), 3-5 sets of skis, Backbacking equip ($850+), and Whatever else I can get my hands on to keep life more fun and interesting.

Doubt it...he was in his 40s when he got it brand new in 1967. He should be able to remember that.:lol: I was actually trying to remember if I got it in sixth grade or in jr. high.

I've got an Excel Spread sheet. I think it says 61. The number goes up an down. A lot are flippers and vintage bikes along with road bikes and five active MTBs. Some are clunkers, some are mid and upper level bikes. The MTB's include, but are not limited to:
05 Specialized FSR XC with Fox F-100 Terralogic
05 Rockhopper with XT shifters/LX derailers/ Fox F-100
03 Stumpjumper FSR with Fox F-100 and Fox Float R
06 SPecialized Hard Rock (Soon to be listed on CL)
92 Nishiki Ariel Raised Chainstay
94 Bridgestone MB-4 with full XT
88 Nishiki Ariel set up for MUP riding
02 Trek 820
These are the bikes I ride, there are some others that I'm just going to flip cause I never use them.

if cycling was my only hobby... i'd have more bikes than I could stand. but, cycling is not my only hobby... so, i have two. purchasing mtn bike when i move back down to birmingham(they actually have single track there) within the next 6mon's.

1. road bike
2. hybrid bike


next purchase: mtn bike.

What else you got going on?

2 road bikes
1 fixed gear
1 singlespeed mtn bike
1 hardtail mtn bike
1 full suspension mtn bike

1 Cannondale 3.0 Criterium - ROADIE

1 Gary Fisher Fat Possum LX - MTB

3
Steel 89'Trek 330 roadbike
Titanium 2000 Litespeed Classic road bike
Aluminum 97' Cannondale F700 MTB

What else you got going on?


Offroading... with my Rhino, including fabrication of parts for it.

and...

Riding my other 'bike'(sportbike).

was going to add pic's, but i didn't want to take away from the thread and topic at hand...

We just got another one today to add to our 5. Girlfriends parents had the perfect Trek 920 (46cm) sitting in their basement that I grabbed for the girlfriend. I asked her how she did not know that was down there, her response was she did but didn't know if it would work.
http://liveoncenjoy.com/SMF/index.php?action=media;sa=item;in=88http://liveoncenjoy.com/SMF/MGalleryItem.php?id=88
I should have it fixed up within the week.

I got 4 wheelchairs! :)