General Cycling Discussion - Need space, must reduce # of bikes..What to do

I need some space so I need to get down to 3 (preferably 2) bikes. I ride club rides, I train and I race in triathlons, I commute and I pull the kiddie trailer at slow speeds. So, I've got a tri bike, a nice road-bike, a heavy steel commuting road bike and a hybrid commuting bike. I'm definately selling the steel road-bike (well, if anyone buys it that is), but I'm wondering if I can sell the road-bike and hybrid and use a cross bike for the purposes of all but the tri-bike. What are your thoughts...keep the tribike, road-bike & commute/pull the kid on the hybrid, or sell the road/steel & Hybrid and get a cross bike to use for everything?

Assuming you must reduce your bikes to 3 (at least one bike has to go), and you have a strong preference for having only 2 bikes, what would you do?

I have 13.
One for every occasion.
Sorry no help here.

I will be selling my MTB and a vintage Lotus road bike.
Then I will only have 11. Does that help??

Enjoy

drastically speaking - you could probably combine your road needs and tri needs into one bike (keep the aero bars obviously). as for the hybrid and commuting bikes - could you just get a mtn bike to take the place of those? maybe switch out the tires for slicks when commuting and keep the knobbies around for everything else.

i really think the road bike and mtn bike combo would let you handle pretty much anything that comes up.

When you need more space because of bikes, you buy a bigger house!

keep the nice road bike, get a cyclocross for commuting/general riding and also use the road bike for tri with a set of aerobars. Unless you do a lot of Tris and the tri-bike is necessary for you. Then keep those 3 bikes.
Getting ride of the steel roadie and the hybrid seems like a good idea.

Hang 'em from the ceiling. Don't they have those things at Performance?

Koffee

Keep one in your office- do something. Don't shed bikes. I have only gotten rid of two bikes in my adult life, and in both case they were entry level bikes I didn't ride so I gave them to noobs in my tri club. I considered it goodwill, rather than bike triage. Don't do it. Just don't.

You could always take two of them, cut them up, and turn them into one bike. I actually used two bikes, and parts of a third to make this one. It may be huge, but it technically counts as 'one bike'. Why dispose, when you can consolidate? :D

peace,
sam

Too many bikes? Give me one!

Maybe you're not storing them in an efficient manner. Like Koffee says, hang them. Every single rafter in my garage has bike stuff hanging from them.

In Madison, all you really need is a commuter bike, and a tri/road bike. The commuter bike should have all your summer and winter needs, disk breaks, could hall the trailer. Then a tri/road bike for all your events. I'm still looking for a road bike, I need the speed.

GEEK

Once you get rid of them, there will be all that empty space looking up at you...and you'll end up filling it with NEW BIKES! You'll have plenty of room, afterall.

Mail the extras to me. They will have a good home in the living room. PM for my address.

I'm afraid I don't understand the question ... "reduce" the number of bicycles????????

I need some space so I need to get down to 3 (preferably 2) bikes. I ride club rides, I train and I race in triathlons, I commute and I pull the kiddie trailer at slow speeds...

I'm surprised no one has suggested the obvious solution; it jumped out at me right away. Have you considered getting rid of the kids? You also wouldn't need the trailer any more, thus freeing up even more room for more bicycles!

I'm surprised no one has suggested the obvious solution; it jumped out at me right away. Have you considered getting rid of the kids? You also wouldn't need the trailer any more, thus freeing up even more room for more bicycles!
My thoughts exactly :D

You are lucky not having space for many bikes. You born with no bike and when you die you can not bring them with you. Learn to live with less. Less is more!