Originally Posted by
bobbyl1966
Do you have many bikes collection. Do you ride them all how do you keep up with all the bikes. Do you have all of your bikes ready to ride or not?
Rowan and I do have a whole lot of bicycles ... that 21-ish, I mentioned is shared between us.
Rowan does pretty much all of the maintenance right now, and most are ready to ride.
And we select the bicycle to ride depending on where we're going to ride and how we feel.
For example, if we're going to ride some local trails, we'll go with mtn bikes. This weekend we spent the weekend in a flatter part of the state, so we brought our tandem. Last weekend, we did a time-limited 100K ride that included three relatively lengthy patches of gravel (a few km each), so I opted to go with my touring bicycle because it is comfortable and I can get up a reasonable speed on it, but it has wider tires with a little bit of tread and so would handle the gravel better than some of my other choices. Just to name a few ...