I think I have 17 bikes now, of which I would like to sell 5 to 10. I would like to keep two commuter bikes, one all-purpose bike, one or two vintage rides, and one or two utility bikes.

I would like to keep two only.
But I keep finding excuses for getting 'just one more'....

....and we'll be waiting.

Whatcha got?

Lost count at 30+...I find it a lot easier to sneak a new addition in without the wife noticing these days....lol.











Steve

7 is the perfect number for me, I'm about half way there.

Modern road bike - yes
1950s road bike, golden age stuff - yes
City/sport bike for commuting - yes
Late 1930s road bike, first sanctioned derailleurs - almost there
1920s road bike, flip/flop only, a truely HTFU bike - not yet
1980s road bike, the height of old school technology - not yet
Optional track bike - not yet

My current "needs" are...

1. Modern Road bike (1992 Marinoni with '06 centaur, but I couldn't resist a 2000 Columbus Nemo Bilato made Marin in the smaller desired size with '01 chorus, so now I have two which makes the marinoni more of a century/randonneur bike even though I feel more comfortable on a 60 c-c marin than on the 62cm c-c Marinoni)
2. All weather commuter/grocery getter and general hauler of things which is also a full blown touring bike... well my long time friend the 1984 Nishiki International is on the block and hopefully will be sold tomorrow, but I am very happy with the new Surly LHT taking its place. Quality of craftsmanship is no better but the details make is superior (tire clearance, long chainstays ans threadless, oversized TT).
3. Fast errand bike and short distance commuter (1975 Jeunet, 531 main frame fixie with fenders and mudflaps.
4. Track bike, because they are beautiful (1981 Marinoni Pista with period record group)
5. Vintage road bike for fun and to feel what it was like to ride back then.. 1981 gazelle Champion mondial with period super record... (how could I get rid of this!?) but I also have a lifetime project on my hands... the 1971 Corky Gulbransen with a full period nuovo record group... how could I possibly decide between these two glorious 531 bikes?

Which means I have 8 but one is being sold. I have 2 redundant bikes that I don't need yet they mean a lot to me. I have had many different schwinns and raleighs, a faggin, nishikis, a carlton, marinonis, etc etc.. come and go but what I have now are all the pinacle of their purpose aside from the Marin which could be replaced with an even more modern steel bike with newer and better components but until I can afford that the Marin must do... So I am stuck with 7 none of which I can part with.

Now I would like either a cross bike or a nice cross country mountain bike... hmmm

The girlfriend has a
tourer/all weather commuter and grocery bike as well which we may replace with a surly LHT.
She also has a road bike for those occasions I can get her out on a longer ride.
She rarely rides her SS Guerciotti but the fit is so perfect how could we get rid of it?
Her Apollo mixte is such an elegant city bike that it is perfect for going out to dinner and as a guest bike...
so we are stuck with those 4 as well.

In the last 4 years I have had many come and go and been up to nearly 20 frames at a time... but I have minimized the collection to what I consider and absolute minimum, anything else I pick up will be strocktly for flipping or fill a long desired gap (cross or MTB for example).

and now a few photos









Sorry no pick of the LHT, Guerciotti or Marin.

*points at signature*

well, theres actually a few more... but those are the nicest ones

couldn't help but notice the kt-100 sprint kart-




italian, of course

k

Lots of sharp eyes in this crowd.

The way of all collections...

I managed to sell this Dawes yesterday. The somewhat-pathetic thing is that I put it together with parts I had in the basement except for a new chain. So I have one less frameset than I had before.

Neal

After reading all your posts guy,s I dont feel so bad now ,lol !

Five old ones and two new for me and I don't feel bad about looking at another tonight ($10 project) after reading this post.

1993 Shogun
1986 Free Sprit
1983 Coventry Eagle
1980 Raleigh Grad prix
1971 Sekine
2005 Fuji Touring
2005 Raleigh Airlite 200

Ian.

Reminds me of what a friend once said when asked "why did you get *yet* another bicycle?"

"well, i happened to have a spare bottle cage lying around, there was nothing else to do but to attach a bike to it"

I have 7 at the moment, 2 of which are not built.
4 are dutch bikes Zieleman, RIH, Remy, Jan de Reus
2 US frames Serotta, Trek 770
1 Italian Track bike. Pogliaghi

might be blasphemous but I think I could be happy with just the Zieleman and the
Pogliaghi.

Marty

i have two riders, plus one more that is not put all the way together, i have all the parts but no room in a little bity apt. i'm moving out of in a few weeks.

1. Old Paconi track bike. campy pista group. low flnage hubs to montreal and mavic gp 4.
2. '79 or '80 Gianni Motta, campy super record and tubulars.
3. '82 i think it is, Gazelle Champion Mondial, about to be built with Campy Nuovo record. I built a set of wheels for it, NOS 28hole super record laced to ambrosio Excellight clinchers...hope they survive on the girlfriends bike for a few more weeks.
The gazelle is a sweet riding bike. i'll probably put some veloflex clinchers on it.

One of my friends just acquired all the tools to build frames.
I'm gonna build a FG frame with a rack or two and fenders for riding to the store and in rain.

Then I'm gonna build a road frame with steep angles and short rake. thinking it will handle like the Motta but fit just a bit better.

that's it.
i have boxes of parts but i keep the excess parts and bikes in check pretty well i think.

Ditto. I had the Nishiki with no good stem shifters, so I bought the Diamondback to use its old STI's, and then I needed some DT shifters for the Diamondback, so I bought the Ironman for the Suntour group to swap onto the Diamondback, which left me with an Ironman frame with some Shimano and DiaCompe parts, so I took the Light Action stuff off the Lemans and put it on the Ironman and put the other Shimano stuff on the Lemans, and I didn't have a saddle, but the LBS had a saddle, and while I was there they sold me this cool wheelset, so now I have a 27" spare from the other bike, so I need a frame for my single-speed, and the bars were left over in lieu of bullhorns, so I got the Bianchi frame out, and it already had a bottom bracket, but I needed a crankset and somehow I ended up with the mixte, the touring bike, and I'm bidding on two more. So honey, if I would have had some good stem shifters, I'd only have one bike, but it's awfully tough out there in this market, and you have to take what you can find, make lemonade, and have you seen my bike shoes...?