Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Jeeze, you guys all seem to be procrastinators! I have 9 of my own bikes in the garage (including a tandem), my wife’s 4, one for my daughter, my bike in Tucson, my wife’s bike in Tucson and my daughter’s 4 bikes in Tucson that are all ready to go. The only thing I need to do any any bike is to pump up the tires. I do have 3 frames at home that are just spare frames, although as part of the “On the Road Again” Challenge, I put one together from parts in my garage and had it rideable in 3 hours
I just get pulled in a lot of different directions - and there is also a bit of procrastination. My bike project style is also quite a bit different, but it's not that I have nothing I could ride. Part of it is that I try some rather ridiculous things with many of my builds. Often there's stripping or painting or wheel building involved, and despite having a reasonably well-stocked stash, you'd be surprised how many times lacking the needed configuration of cable stop (or some other seemingly innocuous small part) can cause me to take a pause to either get it, or figure a way around it. Also, having back issues often causes me to have to walk around and find something else to do at inopportune times.
I may have 7-11 projects plodding along, but I then have to choose between 18 options (that's a few more than I realized) when I do go for a ride (not counting the tandem or the unicycle). My wife has a few options as do any guests (on the rare occasions that we have them) I'll eventually work it down to one at a time, but that's still at least a couple years off. Then I'll likely have several concurrent woodworking projects.
