Originally Posted by
acidfast7
I agree.
7 bikes is great for some people. I'd rather spend my weekends/holiday time (roughly 10 weeks/year) traveling. I/We usually travel so much that overhead at home (owning a house or stuff in general) is quite a headache.
For example, we currently live in Frankfurt and have job offers in Texas, Hawaii, Basel and Copenhagen. We'll likely take jobs that are most flexible with our starting dates so that we can travel for 3-4 months before moving and starting to work.
For me n=1 and probably will forever.
What makes you think that I...since you still seem to be fixated on the 7 bikes thing...
don't spend my weekends/holiday time traveling? I'm out traveling on my bikes or dragging my bikes to places that I want to see but would rather see from the saddle of a bicycle rather than from in a cage. I even take vacations...long ones...where my transportation
is my bike. I've even managed to raise two kids while owning many more bikes than I do now and getting them to participate in the activity.
As for maintenance, it's minimal. I do almost all of my own work and keeping a bike operational takes about 30 seconds per week. That's a
big sacrifice
The biggest job I've done recently is reinstalling a fork I just got back from being serviced and upgraded...about the only thing I don't do...and it took less than 20 minutes.
How do I do all this, you may ask? I have a 14 year old truck that I put less than 7000 miles on a year. Most of those miles are weekend trips to either go ride or go fishing. I don't put gas in it but about once a month...remember this forum is about bicycle commuting. The money that I don't put into the stupid gas tank or spend on purchasing a new vehicle or paying interest on the debt of a new vehicle, I can put into my other mode of transportation...my bicycles.
Now can you quit obsessing about my 7 damned bicycles...the horror!...and get this thread back on track?