Originally Posted by
MRT2
N + 1, but honestly, this is more want than need. If you really had to, couldn't you come up with a bike that could handle club rides, commuting, and touring? I see people riding hybrids, cyclocross, and touring bikes on club rides. And if you really had to, you could probably figure out a way to tour on a road bike, or a hybrid. So if you also ride single track, that leaves you with a "need" for two bikes.
Not looking to rain on anyone's parade. I own 3 bikes, but I ride just 1 98% of the time.
Yeah, thought about this plenty in the past. I could sell all bikes and get a road/cx-ish geometry, clearance for 700x50c and disc brakes with all sorts of brazeons and call it good. I could get a pretty sweet custom if I did end up selling all of my bikes. Thought occured to me once again last weekend when I took my CX bike with 700x35's on a 20 mile asphalt and 12 mile singletrack ride. I wasn't as fast on the road, and definitely had to pick my lines going up and down the trail, but it was still fun.
But eventually reality hits and I know I would miss blasting down the trail on my MTB and zipping along the road on my roadie. Plus, I don't know what I would do if the only bike I owned broke down.