Where's the pictures of your collection?

I ride all my bikes, current count is four. Some more than others. I need to ride the Diamond Back this weekend to test out the replacement suspension fork. I can't believe the original one cracked and started leaking. :cry: :)

wall hangers are WOFTAM, I sell off all my nos because I cant enjoy the stuff.
A bike is to be pampered, used and enjoyed, I enjoy using a brush and rag to clean my PUCH after every ride.
chain must be kept spotless and waxed.

I ride all my bikes , with the oldests, it is a sort of temporal space travel......I think that to ride on an old BROOKS , with the claps of the olds MAFAC "racer" as with my 1963 LA PERLE "course" , is a real privilege .....I test all my bikes , climbing the little cols of the country ,and my favorit for this exercise is my 1975 Lucien AIMAR with ELVISH frame ....

The LA PERLE

http://s20.postimg.org/e52oxnwfh/100_4252.jpg

The Lucien AIMAR

http://s20.postimg.org/azi37gdt9/100_3851.jpg

This is going to be a silly question, but in the OP (gorgeous bikes by the way) are those spare tubes under the saddles?

I wouldn't own a bike that I didn't ride... That's part of the reason I only have 3 now. My Trek I ride almost daily, my Colian weekly, and my JRJ, well, it would be monthly or so but I always have it taken apart! I need to sort that bike out.

My C&V collection consists of one bike so I feel inclined to ride it, yes I ride my collection!

I ride all of them, from the cruisers to the sunday racers.

Yes, I have spare tube in my back pocket and under the rear of the saddle ( people on the Lake Front who are in need of assistance) or anyone else. I've been offered money, but my response has always been, help someone else as payment.

I don't have a 'collection'. I do have a barn full of bikes I ride.

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I had no idea that pics were a required component of riding them. I feel so inadequate.

Oh wait, I do have some pics around somewhere. This pic is from last year and is missing one I'm still working on. It will have to do...

http://users.rcn.com/jimmuller/pics/jellybean3.jpg

I'd ride norskagent's bikes, too, but I'm unable to find his spare key. So far.

I ride all of mine except the Giant MCR and the Hot tubes TT bike.

I can't get the Giant dialed in.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323344

I haven't entered a TT in a while, nor do I care to.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323345

If pictures are required, OK.

28 miles on Monday:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323343

18 miles on Tuesday:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323347

32 miles on Wednesday:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323346

18 miles on Thursday:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323349

40 miles about 2 weeks ago:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323350

In pieces, being rebuilt:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323342

I sold this today, had it a few months.
I liked it, but like the money better.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323348

There is another build that will come in, and I see no reason not to ride it, as well.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=323352

This. And I often have a hard time deciding which one to ride.

Yes, every one is a rider
Paramount fixed gear
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...psd62dd30b.jpg
Alex Singer
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps62407d9b.jpg
Bruce Gordon
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...P1020548_2.jpg
Yo Eddy
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...57115789_n.jpg
Merckx MXL
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1020452.jpg

Not a lot of pictures of me on a bike. you'll just have to take my word. I have these two. Don't know why I'm smiling. The first one was climbing all day. The second was a 50 mile road race.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7...1ae67289_b.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5466/9...bdaf1c04_b.jpg

Do you ride your collection?

Yes, absolutely.

Ditto.

I can ride a different bike for three weeks if I want to although it is just a couple of bikes that handle the lion's share of the mileage.

Most of my collection is currently in the queue for overhauling, but i don't keep bikes if they don't get ridden

if you insist :lol:

My grocery getter/errand bike + my GF's bike. I ride the grocery getter every few days at least
http://imageshack.us/a/img812/5613/p10100016.jpg

Main rider
http://imageshack.us/a/img560/7079/p1010010gy.jpg

Fit is off, waiting on a shorter stem, but this one is ready to ride
http://imageshack.us/a/img526/4774/p1010034is.jpg

This one is hanging on the wall, waiting to be overhauled. I was going to drop bar conversion it, but decided not to
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/5127/p1010054ba.jpg

Haven't ridden this one in over a year.. hope to sell it this summer. this was my first build so i've held onto it longer than most bikes i dont ride
http://cdn.velospace.org/files/P1010254.jpg

This one just got repainted and needs to be overhauled, upgraded and put back together
http://imageshack.us/a/img842/9544/p1010029jx.jpg

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/982/8p9x.jpg

This one is in the middle of an overhaul/rebuild, still collecting purple parts for it (seller's pic)
http://imageshack.us/a/img809/4973/3...gf5f8d4rde.jpg

okay pics of mine
'85 merckx pro, my "fast" commuter (saddle now switched to brooks swallow)
http://cdn.velospace.org/files/Emerckx1.JPG

'80 Mclean, my load bearing commuter
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n..._2279230_n.jpg

'78 raleigh pro, my alternate commuter - might sell
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n..._2802574_n.jpg

2012 brooks fixed gear, commuting and beach bike
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...32519977_n.jpg

'74 raleigh track, cafe' bike / wall hanger
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...26712139_n.jpg

'89 merckx corsa extra, weekend distance rider
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...38627884_n.jpg

early 70s? zeus, converted to a city bike
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...50508271_n.jpg

2009? raleigh XXIXr, my ruckus bike
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3265932_n.jpg

Now you see why I'd steal his bikes.

haha too small for you robbie!

What doesn't get ridden moves on to another home. I may put up a wall hanger display rack in my shop. Bikes will still get ridden, I'll just rotate them through the display.

I see a reason. You won't get far without pedals. :D

I've only ever had four on the go at once, but they were all ridden because they were all built to suit different applications, varying conditions and my ever-changing mood. Someday I hope to have my five frames on the road so I can adjust the ride to more moods. :D

I must be really moody.

:)