Not even close to enough total. And need to add in several tandems to really be right as rain.

Yea so anyways I was wondering how other people juggle all the different cycle sports or do you just get a bike for everyone of the sports?

I don't do all of those, so I think excluding mountain biking the optimum number is one. I'd use a cyclocross bike. Including mountain biking I'd say "two" is optimum: racing bike or cross, and mountain bike.

More specialized bikes would be enjoyable, but given the benefits of having fewer bikes (easier to store and transport, less maintenance, less expense) optimal has to be the fewest necessary to accommodate the various types of riding.

Road tandem. MTB tandem. Cruiser tandem. Track tandem. TT tandem. Heck, that's 4 right there.

Who transports bikes? I usually ride to where I am going to ride

Aaron

Me too, I've never driven to a ride yet. But if you're doing all sorts of races, touring and far-flung day trips you'd want to transport the bikes you need. It seems to me that needing fewer to transport is more optimal.

I'd say that that is true of just about everything in life.

So just how MANY bikes are you going to transport at any one time?

FWIW I carry a folder with me in my work car all the time. Dahon Classic III. Transporting one or even two bikes isn't an issue to me. FWIW my current bike fleet is over 30

Aaron

[QUOTE=MetalPedaler;15540906]I'd say that that is true of just about everything in life.[/QUOTE

Exactly!

I hadn't thought about it that way. But it makes sense.

You're choice is very reasonable. And if that works for you, the more power to you. There are a certain number of us that, ahem, seem to not be able to manage with only two...

Makes you wonder what people did a generation or two ago, before they had all these specialty bikes for every conceivable minute difference in riding environment/style....

Hard to believe...but we used to just get a bike...and ride! The same bike worked for around town; jumping ramps; trails in the woods; road trips.... [Hmm...maybe that's it- forget all these fancy-schmancy bikes, and return to the old banana-seat 20"-tire high-tensile steel bikes we had as kids! They could do it ALL!]

Or maybe stick a same-secks transgender bar on our road bikes [Can't say "sissy bar" anymore....]

It's more of a theoretical ideal than an actual choice, as there are currently more bikes than space for them in my abode.

I really, really wish I can just have one bike and be happy with not wanting more.
When I had 2, I was a happy man.
When I had 3, stress began creeping up my brow.
Having 4 bikes made my head go to hell.

Right now I have 4. Hopefully it will be 3 by this time tomorrow.

I think there's a lot of wisdom to this. I've got five bikes, but there's enough redundancy/overlap that I could get by with just two or three of them.

I have 2 bikes- My Klein- which is my main road bike; and my old Bikesdirect cheapo, which I keep as a back-up/bad weather bike.

I see so many bikes that I think would be cool to fool with- IGH cruisers; recumbents; a MTB to use on my 28 acres in the winter when I don't feel like going on the road....etc.

But in reality, I don't have the time to ride my roadbike as much as I should- how much would i use a plethora of other bikes? Not to mention that maintaining them would take up even more time! So....my goal for now is try and maximize the use of the bikes I have. More bikes would just mean further divvying-up my time.

My dream is to own a Co-Motion, Moots, Cielo, and Cinelli. And that is just the start!

Then I would need to get another bike.

LOL! See that? There ya go! I'm an enabler!