Do you ride your collection?
 

I ride my limited collection and enjoy!

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Yes.

I do, sometimes 4 different bikes a week.

At the moment I'm mainly riding my 64 Flying Scot or my 95 Supercorsa (great aren't they?)

All of them get ridden... Different one every day... Sometimes two.

I have ridden every bike I own, but there are some that I do consider to be more wall hanger than others...

I tend to ride the Marnati, Litespeed, Koga Miyata, Vanilla and Primato the most...for the past two months I've been riding the Cinelli a lot and have really been enjoying it. We use our tandems a lot...the triplet is definitely seeing a lot less action since getting the Bilenky. I go through phases....I'll ride one bike a lot for a month and than another. The past two months have really been about the Cinelli...I wasn't wild about it at first, but I'm really enjoying it now. I tightened up the cables, lubricated the cable guides and a lot of the flex shifting stopped.

I almost never ride the Sachs tourer and Merckx...and I don't anticipate riding the De Rosa Anniversary very often. I have another pretty special bike coming and I don't think I'll be riding that much either.

Yes, me too. When I stop at the local coffeehouse for morning coffee, a few regulars have noticed that I might turn up on a different bike again, "How many do you own?" "That would be telling".
I will admit that I set some aside when the drivetrains require cleaning, then service 4-5 or so at the same time.
Every once in a while one gets sidelined for a different reason, such as the bike with Shimano DynaDrive pedals, broke an alloy toe clip and it took a long time to find a mechanical replacement, 600 series steel units, I was just not excited of spending the big dollars for the aluminum Dura-Ace versions when I looked periodically.

There are a few bikes that are lying in wait. They are scheduled for my kids when they grow tall enough, they are getting close now. I still could use a 650c road bike though, I missed a few chances in the past 6 months.

I ride them as much as I am able to. It isn't as much as I'd like these days, but I ride them.

I have a commuter fleet of 4 bikes, 3 geared and one fixed. I have another bike mainly for long weekend rides. And I have an upright city bike and a 29r mtn. bike. So yes I ride them all but I am considering selling one of my commuters.

I keep most of them around just to sniff the saddle from time to time.

Ride them all, but I feel like I should be riding each one of them more. Some might sit for a couple months before they come back in rotation.

Eeeeeewwww. :twitchy: Gross.

^ that's cuz you prolly don't wash good.....but ya, bikes are for ridding.

Ride them too. What's the point of owning them if they don't see the tarmac occasionally.

My C&V collection comprises the only bicycles I own, and bicycling is one of my primary transportation modes.

I currently tend to ride the Schwinn mountain bike a lot, because it makes such a superb utility mule and commuter.

My C&V bicycles are ridden but infrequently. The main riders tend to be modern or borderline C&V. I'm getting older and the reflexes aren't quite what they used to be, so I prefer the extra safety margin provided by brifters and dual-pivot or V-brakes, especially when commuting or running errands.

I think I will end up jumping to road discs. The new Bianchi looks interesting. But it should have Campagnolo. They need to make a road disc brake, again.

Do you ride your collection?
 

Well yes and no...

In a broad definition, my bikes comprise a collection, but they would be more accurately described as a fleet. Being in a fleet generally implies regular use; or at least available for regular use. All my bikes did, do and/or will get regular use, at least when they're not in storage (for reasons unrelated to their being vintage, or collectible).
Clear as mud? Good. ;)

I have around 10 or 12 bikes. All were aquired to be riders and the only time they aren't being ridden is if they are being repaired or worked on.

Yes,..... but nowhere near as much as I used to ride my bikes in "younger days"......:rolleyes:
My rarest/oldest one being the least ridden....

Yes. Can't afford to keep non-runners, money or space-wise. Horses for courses though, so I'm happy with my little fleet of five (old roadie, new roadie, mtb, fixie and dutch style city bike). The only thing I'd really need is a folder, but C&V folders are even worse than the current offerings.

Of course I ride them. Opportunities for some do not come along as often as I'd like. (And I like less than half of them half as much as they deserve.)

I'm embarrassed to know what you quoted.

Yup. Some more than others, but there are no wall-hangers. They all get ridden.

Yes, like somebody has already gleefully reported, I ride at least 4 different bikes a week. In two weeks, I will have rode 8 different bikes.. ;)

I do need to find one I can kowtow and light incense to each morning, however.