Good for you. I know I should do this. I guess I'm not ready.

I'm pretty sure that if my wife inherited my bike collection, it wouldn't be significant compared with everything else. If I'm wrong, then I have too much money into the stuff. Worse, I might have spent more than what it's all worth. Hmm!

I do have a couple of spreadsheets. My "bike configs" spreadsheet has one bike per column. The rows are the components. So it reads like a spec sheet from a 1970's bike catalog. I also have proposed changes in this spreadsheet.

I want to make an inventory of the spare components I have. I want each component to have a picture in the spreadsheet. Would you recommend a picture embedded or a URL to a picture? Ideally, I could use the spreadsheet to generate ebay or craigslist ads (or a web page that my ad would point to).

Also, once I have this inventory, I can easily see how many theoretical bikes I have. A theoretical bike is all the components of a bike that would become a real bike if I strung them together.

And I use google docs. I use several computers, and I store as little information as possible on one of them. I store nothing on all of the other computers. This way, I can access all of my important information from the cloud, from all of my computers. If you're not using some sort of cloud storage, you are working too hard.