Does it stop? Magic 8 ball says: outlook does not look good. I have been doing the vintage bike and flip for profit thing for only two years now. I just looked at some of my records and I have purchased 99 bikes in that span. I have sold 60 of those, and the rest are hanging around mostly here in the basement shop. My personal collection of bikes is up to 11 (three non-vintage MTB and two slightly newer track bikes). The other 6 are vintage and were the top of the line or close to it in their day. The amount of money I have spent on those combined wouldn't buy me much more than a Shimano 105 equiped carbon forked aluminum road bike today.

The other thing is with all of these bikes comes more bikes tools!!! N+1 can be applied to tools just as well as bikes. My bike tool collection started off with buying a used Park repair stand and some tools from a bike shop that was closing. It has now ballooned into multiple repair stands, truing stand, peg board and tool box full of various bike tools, and I am often adding more. I just ordered another tool this week from the LBS that I don't have and needed to take out a BB. Along with the more bikes and bike tools comes more parts and with that you need places to store parts. The bike hooks, S hooks and pipes, file cabinets, plastic storage bins, and other stuff I buy to hold and organize my parts is adding up quickly too. My next project is to wire in some more lights into the shop area.

I say, "Hello my name is Matt and I have a bike addiction"

group of voices: "Hi, Matt"


P.S. Guitar collection is only at 3. I know I can't afford a vintage guitar collection.