Brent

You have a unicycle that looks almost exactly like mine! Do you ride it or is it for looks?

You're new here, aren't you?

^ And not one of these things is a fixie?

Tell me that you actually ride the ones in the back corners of the storage area that require you to move at least a half dozen other bikes out of the way to even get to. Like at least every year or so.

Why are you so concerned for us?

Nope.

Frankly, you hoarders diminish the available supply and increase the price to obtain good quality rideable older bikes for those of us who might care to have one or two.

I suspected such sour grapes, then just open your wallet. Or, as many have done here make your own good luck. Plenty of the bikes shown in the images of this thread were overlooked by others, neglected, garage sale finds, trash heap fodder, gifts to the current owners as the neighbors or co-workers knew them as the "old bike guy" who takes an interest in bikes. Some just wrote the check to get what the have, but not many. (aside from rolling over other's discards into capital to buy that special bike).

No, of course not. My current riders are kept elsewhere. This is just the storage facility for past projects, future projects and (mostly) bikes I picked up for parts. Much cheaper than having to source parts from auction sites and even better: readily available at the turn of a wrench when I need them. It takes no more than twenty minutes to get any bike from here to my work stand.

Actually, I think it is rather the other way around. Many of the bikes you see in my pictures had been sitting on a local classifieds site for weeks or even months and would have ended up in the trash right away or be bought by a student, only to be left a a train station two months later with a flat tire to rust away, had I not spent many, many hours looking at old and badly written ads with fuzzy low-res phone pictures and picked them up.

I'm not quite sure why you, or anyone else, feels the need to justify their hobby to an obnoxious, self righteous seeming child. Adults with any sense of perspective tend to realize that there are aspects of our lives, wants and habits that will seem absurd to others. Most of us tend not to act like judgmenetal children lest our own idiosyncrasies be exposed to a piercing gaze.

Owning more bicycles than you ride is far less evil an eccentricity than trolling for attention on the internet.

That Frejus raises my lust-o-meter!

Brent, love the set up with big windows and coziness, very jealous
you'll kill me if the view is of either a lake or valley or mountains

I'm down to 31. This includes vintage prewar and postwar bikes.
You find or make room, actually. My third floor MUSEUM holds currently 20. Basement another 6. Shed another 5.

I ride it once in a great while... but not well.
Brent

I wonder what the grand total is for at least semi-active members. There are some real gems here.

Thanks!
The view is the best part. I live in a forest.




Brent

My goodness I would love the **** out of that, Brent.

I'm with you.

Haven't had a decent bike space since we left the warehouse space in downtown St. Paul.

Somebody turned it into a high buck condo.

Speaking of having more than one pair of pants, I have more bikes than pants, is that bad? (seems pretty normal here!)

He wasn't justifying them to a judgmental child such as you are - he was discussing it with a mature adult - me. I certainly have the perspective to recognize that many folks here get along better with mechanical apparatus such as bicycles than they do with people, and that's the subtext to this thread.

While I grant you expertise in social disorders based on your turdosis (tm) behavior, I'm curious what on earth makes you think you are qualified to make psychological evaluations of people you don't know on the internet. Do you have subject matter expertise on the disorders behind the term hoarder? It seems to me like your only interest is being a self righteous chucklehead as a means to garner attention, and are throwing out a term you saw on a tv show to justify it. You would need to know far more about the person and how their bicycles affect their lives before using words like that in the grown up world.


I think we're capable of making decisions for ourselves without your insight and/or commentary. I suggest you imitate adult behavior and worry about your own eccentricities.

And that shall end my interactions with you.

I also have more bikes than friends... Oh well.

Frankly, one should probably hold off on passing any judgement until they have spent a little more time here.

I have helped provide more quality bicycles to more people than I can remember and have done that as an unpaid volunteer at our co-op... those bicycles number in the thousands.

If I have 15-20 bicycles that is no-one's business but my own.