Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
Didn't you post about stepping away from new acquisitions a few weeks back? Man, that is a lot of stuff/bikes, you must have a very impressive shop, or a storage facility gets a regular check from you. And, I realize that we are mainly a group of enablers here, I'll bet several are looking through your harem and are jealous of one, or three, of them. I'd personally like a free pass to "pick one, just one" but I don't harbor any illusions about charity in this case, nor should I.
As said, now I feel much better about my piddly little group of mainly parts. Kudos on many of the neat bikes you have on that list, too.
Bill
This thread came about when I looked at a few people's sig lines and they listed their bikes and projects -- I just wondered - hmmmm, I wonder how long my sig line would be if I listed everything
Actually --- except for one of the Cannondale's (I have ridden it on a nice 40 miler --- at the end of that ride my conclusion was - "yep, that's a Cannondale, where's the back pain pills ") ---- I haven't procured anything new in a little while---
The track bikes and funny bikes I literally keep in the living room - they're fun to look at, --- I used to have an over-stuffed attic, but now I can see the back wall without it being just a straight wall of bicycles -- I need to post a current pic of that space, you guys' may give me a golf clap afterwards
The rest that are visible in my garage area are maybe 6 or 7 , and those are all ridden fairly regularly
I am blessed with plenty of space to spread stuff around , but that's the curse at the same time ------ some of those bikes that I've had for 20 or more years were ridden into the ground in my old racing/training days --- I think I never sold those back then as I was upgrading was because of the poor ROI, --- take a bike that cost you $2000 to build up in 1995 and then its worth maybe $500 3 years later? --- No thanks , --- so in the barn it would go, -- and multiply that a few times
(I have stated before that that's how this lunacy got started for me ---- when I saw this site a few years ago, I noted that some of those old ragged out bikes I had in storage were actually approaching C&V age and there was an appreciation for that stuff)
--- with mountain bikes, I am not crazy about riding the old stuff --- my MTB accumulation doesn't have much overlap-- just a collection of bikes dating back 25 years or so that I rode and then tossed in the attic when I got the next one
Some of those "bikes" are stripped framesets --- once I obtain enough shipping boxes, I am clearing those out hopefully
I have even given a couple away since writing that , and my BMX fleet (not counting the '78 Goose) is in the capable hands of my teenage nephew and the pre-teen boys' of a good friend of mine for ---- "field testing"