I started with guitars before I started with bikes and now I am down to seven guitars as I sold a few off,I have nerve damage to my hands and arms and right now and dealing with a case of carpal tunnel that needs surgery to repair so I spend more time messing with bikes then guitars these days but I hope to be able to play again for longer periods,it is so bad that my finger tips have returned to there natural soft state lol

And I'm ill also. I have about fourteen bikes in my personal collection, last count and most are high end or special issue Canadian bikes. The personal selection does change from time to time and an addition usually creates an opportunity to let one go - a Gardin for a better Gardin sort of thing.

Then I have an inventory of bikes that I offer to others who cannot find them for little cost on their own. This inventory changes almost weekly.

We are all ill but ill in a Environmentally Friendly way. We could be lined up in our cars waiting to get a Tim Horton's medium double double with a sticky bun as the minutes help pump pollution into the atmosphere.

On no, here I go again....

This more or less sums up my collecting/flipping. I only keep bikes that fit me and bikes I'll actualy ride. That means everything else I come across gets overhauled and sold. I'm somewhat torn when it comes to my '74 Paramount track bike, its the right size but i'm never going to ride it but its also nice to have an American icon thats also a track bike.

Being single with no kids helps, I can spend whatever whenever but living in an apartment limits my space which is a good thing. Otherwise I'd have 50 bikes instead of my current 12.

Well to be honest I didn't count but I do have photos that I just sent my Uncle so I will post them and you can try to count them LOL.My wife and I are collectors(pack rats,I got it from my mother my wife got it from me) on so many levels from books and toys to knicknacs,I used to collect older Japanese dirt bikes and motorcycles (I have had over 500 in the span of 30yrs) but I can no longer ride so I only have 6 left and I will be selling 4 off and keeping the first 2 that I started with more then 27 years ago,our garages are full as are our attic and we have been looking for a bigger home with some land because we are just out of room and can't enjoy everything we collect at one time.The pics look worse then it really is most of this is in my corners of the yard the rest of the yard is hers and is clutter free,oh yeah the lawn gets cut every Wed so today is the day and I have to go out and move a bunch of stuff so the guys don't run it over with their mowers.What sucks is not having room to keep them out of the weather. A friend just gave me a new 10x20 carport/tent with sides that was used one time so that should help.I have been trying to get my brother to help me fix and flip bikes so he could make some extra cash( he's been unemployed for a year this month) but he would rather do odd jobs busting his hump or clamming then work on bikes and the sad part is he is good at it.

Yeah I didn't notice the date but at 37 you are still a rookie

Hey, it's slowed down for me since I stopped driving a car....

The VW Bus was the worst. Way too much room in the back...

Amateur!!! I posted on page two of this thread and then I had purchased a total of 99 bikes. Currently the tally is at 163 bikes total. Personal collection is now up to 13, I think. I have to store bikes in different spots so it doesn't look so crowded. Most of my own bikes in the basement, a few commuter bikes in the garage with some other bikes, and then I think there are another 10+ bikes in the Barn. I don't want to count, but a conservative estimate would be 60 bikes still somewhere on the grounds.

Plus, the next two days of garage sales, and I am looking at a 84' Trek 520 and 620 tomorrow so who knows what the total will be at the end of the week.

Edit: Hunting Garage sales for bikes in a pick up truck is bad. I bought a bike last week for $10, but I had to take a second one. Then the owner was helping me load up and said do you want another for parts, my answer was of course I do. Three bikes for $10. I think I have had 7 or 8 bikes piled into the bed before.

Ya got me beat, but I understand the disposition of forces thing. Mine are scattered between Farm, Garage, basement, bedroom and Kitchen! There are probably 40 or so, of which 20 are keepers.

Starting to be glad I'm single again.

I'm college student (second time around) poor, in a studio apartment (read as "no space"), fighting BAS with all I got. I'm having to force myself with the "one project at a time" mantra.

The GT...focus on the GT...focus...FOCUS!

That is by far the best and funniest pic I've seen in many years Thx a load.