Why n+1 is a good idea
04-25-08, 08:55 PM
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Why n+1 is a good idea
When bikes #1 and #3 are in the shop, and you've paid a non-refundable fee for a benefit ride a week away, it's nice to remember there's always another bike in the stable. 
Here's today's full ride report on my blog.
Here's today's full ride report on my blog.
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04-26-08, 06:59 AM
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I concur. I keep four at home (three operable, one long-term project for which I just got most of the remaining parts I need), plus one in the office.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
04-26-08, 07:29 AM
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I think bikes are like tattoos even though I don't have a tattoo but you just can't stop at one bike.
I have my hybrid, now my road bike & I'm already looking at a commuter bike for this fall, I'm tired of trying to use my back pack to carry cloths on the road bike.
Just so the wife doesn't know.
I have my hybrid, now my road bike & I'm already looking at a commuter bike for this fall, I'm tired of trying to use my back pack to carry cloths on the road bike.
Just so the wife doesn't know.
04-26-08, 10:26 AM
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Only N+1?
Not good enough.
Not good enough.
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04-26-08, 01:10 PM
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04-27-08, 01:01 AM
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At present I could have 11 bikes in the shop and still have a ride although I am my own (mechanic).
And there's one that is just about ready to be built up (#13).
I have to call about the n plus 13 tomorrow to see when it is getting delivered.
And there's one that is just about ready to be built up (#13).
I have to call about the n plus 13 tomorrow to see when it is getting delivered.
04-27-08, 08:06 PM
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I have two that I ride - a touring bike and a mountain bike. I also have an old touring bike and an old mountain bike, but I don't ride them. I'd like to have one more bike - an uber-lightweight carbon fiber speedster. Unfortunately, we have two kids in college, and my wife won't let me spend a couple thousand $ on a new bike - or even an used one! Oh well, I love the bikes I have and life is good!
04-27-08, 08:50 PM
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Blasphemy!
N+1 is perfect.
If you add more than one at a time, you can't fully appreciate the new bike.
With all this talk about N+7, N+13 etc., I think there is some misunderstanding here about what N+1 means. It is not the number of bikes you have, that is N.
N+1 is the number of bikes you need to have, where N is the number of bike you now have.
Let's say you have 1 bike. N=1. N+1=2. Add 1. Now, N=2. N+1=3. Add 1. Now, N=3...and so on.
N+1 is perfect.
If you add more than one at a time, you can't fully appreciate the new bike.
With all this talk about N+7, N+13 etc., I think there is some misunderstanding here about what N+1 means. It is not the number of bikes you have, that is N.
N+1 is the number of bikes you need to have, where N is the number of bike you now have.
Let's say you have 1 bike. N=1. N+1=2. Add 1. Now, N=2. N+1=3. Add 1. Now, N=3...and so on.
04-27-08, 09:52 PM
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I understand N theory.
N plus any number always equals N.
N plus any number always equals N.
04-27-08, 10:04 PM
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Blasphemy!
N+1 is perfect.
If you add more than one at a time, you can't fully appreciate the new bike.
With all this talk about N+7, N+13 etc., I think there is some misunderstanding here about what N+1 means. It is not the number of bikes you have, that is N.
N+1 is the number of bikes you need to have, where N is the number of bike you now have.
Let's say you have 1 bike. N=1. N+1=2. Add 1. Now, N=2. N+1=3. Add 1. Now, N=3...and so on.
N+1 is perfect.
If you add more than one at a time, you can't fully appreciate the new bike.
With all this talk about N+7, N+13 etc., I think there is some misunderstanding here about what N+1 means. It is not the number of bikes you have, that is N.
N+1 is the number of bikes you need to have, where N is the number of bike you now have.
Let's say you have 1 bike. N=1. N+1=2. Add 1. Now, N=2. N+1=3. Add 1. Now, N=3...and so on.
04-27-08, 10:06 PM
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04-27-08, 10:12 PM
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I want many new bikes, eventually, but adding 1 at a time is best for me. No way to appreciate and dial in more than 1 new bike at a time.
04-27-08, 10:14 PM
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I was trying to demonstrate that N was the original number of bikes I had and sometimes it's hard to believe there was once only one or N and as time has gone by N has equalled as many as 15.
Number 13 is a 1946 Rudge Whitworth rod brake roadster and once it arrives the number of bikes I have will still really be N.
Number 13 is a 1946 Rudge Whitworth rod brake roadster and once it arrives the number of bikes I have will still really be N.
04-27-08, 10:58 PM
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When I (we) went to school didn't N represent the Null Set? Nobody wants N+1 in "old math" terms.
