this is fun-diculous. (that's my integration of the words "fun" and "ridiculous," by the way).

my question is, when is a bike not a bike, just a bunch of parts?

how many bikes DO i own, anyway?

i've got my IRO. i've also got my silly old frame from my first fixed gear. i've got a 12-year old trek mtb that will eventually become my fixed tourer/rain bike/pseudocyclocross tougher-than-gravel bike, but since it doesn't have appropriate wheels, handlebars, cranks, or, you know, any of several other important Bike parts, is it a bike? then there's my friend's purple old tenspeed in my garage, which i'm not supposed to tinker with because i'm holding it till she gets back into the country.

so do i have one bike, or four?