Blue Belly

Bicycles are a Disgusting addiction . I buy & sell a lot of frames. Build them up, ride them &, if I really like them...Keep them! I do have a utility bike for early season/bad conditions. The bike gets its couple weeks of use then, get hung back up. The others have their own special personalities & qualities. So, to answer your question, I ride them all about the same amount. I grab the one that I feel like riding that day. The one that gives me the ride I am desiring.

cvskates

I have 3 bikes, but I'd like to get rid of one (to be replaced when tri bikes go on sale in the fall).

If we had space I'd have probably have more bikes. It'd be nice to have a cargo bike, and a road bike as well as a tri bike, a separate commuting bike and touring bike, but there is only so much space, and only so much money I'm willing to have sitting in a bike I never use.

The wife and I sell stuff if we don't use it. I'll get really into something for a few years, but when I'm done with something I'm pretty good at getting rid of (selling) selling the equipment rather than keeping it stored away for the odd chance I might use it again one day. I played hockey for almost 10 years, but when I got into triathlon I stopped playing hockey. I can let $6 or $7K worth of goalie gear sit in the corner, or get some $$ for it.

I have a pretty nice full suspension mountain bike, but I never ride it. I bought it to exercise our dogs and rode it a lot, but now I'm in good enough shape to run, so the Mountain Bike will go on craigslist in the next few weeks.

I find watching this a couple times a year keeps me from accumulating stuff I don't use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XRPbFIN4lk

RR3

I have 10 bikes with two of them getting the most action

The BikeFriday has not been ridden since a trip to Australia

The Klein touring bike has not been ridden since a trip to New Zealand

Our tandem gets ridden once or twice a year

My 70's Masi Grn Criterium hasn't been ridden in 20 years

My mountain bike rarely gets ridden

My cross bike sees a lot of winter riding

My Kestral rarely gets ridden anymore and to take this one as an example, I don't need it and the effort to sell it is not worth it to me. I donated a Miyata 912 and a Terry to charity recently. The kestral just hangs on the wall.

I would like a TT bike because I want to ride like 440 miles in one day at Sebring and it would probably go on the wall after I did it.

There is another bike and more than a dozen wheels in the attic....can't remember

Nachoman

Simple solution: more touring, more cycling in foreign countries and more riding with the significant other!

Vicegrip

8 bikes that are "mine" 5 active ones.

2014 Tarmac pro di2, fun ride and dry commuter gets 6 days a week. 5 work days and a weekend ride most weekends.

CADDX disk rain, bad conditions salty roads commuter that gets ride time over the winter when the roads are salty or slushy and summer wet weather use along with gravel rides.

Gottfried tandem gets one ride every other week in the summer with the dear daughter.

Hard tail 29er. used to get once a week now once a month + winter snow use.

73 schwinn. once every other week or so. My way back machine.

The other three are good bikes but retired and waiting for a kid to grow into them. Bikes are like shoes. Need the right bike for the expected use/conditions and can have more than one of the same type as needed.

Once purchased and paid for they are cheap to keep. No ongoing insurance, tax or other costs as seen with cars.

CafeVelo

Steel roadie, temporarily my daily ride, but I built this bike solely to be pretty.

Steel gravel tourer, when I need to haul something or the road my or may not include singletrack.

Classic Steel, because steel is oh so very real. Bought it to use in L'Eroica events when I have time to do them.

Steel rain bike, for foul weather and winter, which seems to be about 9 months of the year.

Carbon bike, has been stripped for parts and would be prohibitively expensive to re-build

Im planning to get a steel frame and build it up ultralight as my daily rider, and I'd like to own an aero bike even though I don't buy into their claims.

HardyWeinberg

I managed to fob one of mine off on my son who just turned 14, so I don't feel so bad about last month's new acquisition... yet the garage is still more crowded. Although a couple months earlier I did give one of my 10 yr old's bikes to a classmate of hers (not sure how we wound up w/ 2 24" wheel bikes)

rekon

Giant Talon 27.5: MTB XC Riding (used only a few days each month)
Bianchi Impulso: 50+ mile rides -- Mostly used on weekends
Cannondale CAAD10: Mon-Fri commuter for now -- Hopefully will turn into my race bike
Diamonback Airen: Wife's go-to-bike
SeaBreeze Cruiser: Wife's cruiser -- she put this up for sale last week since she recently got into road cycling

Dave Cutter

I have 4 bikes, my wife has 1 too.

I have a daily rider a 2014 Trek 1.1 entry level, but a nice bike. The relaxed geometry is good for my old body.
2010 Fuji Newest 3.0 I bought it new and it used to be my daily rider. Now it has a rack with a bag and it's my rain bike.
1991 Trek 1400, a light bike with 105 on the down tube. This is probably my back-up bike, and will go on my trainer.
1988 Trek 360. A wall hanger... ONLY because I think it's pretty. 88 was the only year they made these low cost Co-Mo steel bikes in Yellow with blue trim.

All my bikes are in excellent condition and spotlessly clean.

BoSoxYacht

A close friend has 13 built bikes(3 tandems), but he's looking into a custom tandem for two 6'2" riders. We want to do a few tandem TT and hillclimb races.

It would be fun to crush some Strava segments around here on a bike like that.

bikejrff

In 2014 I had 10 bikes and rode them each between 718 and 1296 miles. Choice depends on length of ride, terrain and speed of ride. Have 13 bikes this year but estimate only 500 ish miles on each bike due to two surgeries this year and the unending rain. As I age I am finding it less enjoyable to ride the carbon bikes.

GZ99

I could see myself having two, maybe three, bikes... A Cross/hybrid for commuting, my MTB for trail riding and XC and possibly a road bike, eventually, for tooling around or going on longer paved-only rides.

But, I am just getting back into cycling after almost a decade... And I have been known to throw myself three-fold into my hobbies...

Machka 

So in the last couple months I have ridden my touring bicycle, folding bicycle, sport touring bicycle, racing/trainer bicycle, and my climbing bicycle.

Now that we can access all of them, I'm trying to rotate through them.

I also have different goals for each.

For example, we just got back from travelling for 3 weeks, and took our folding bikes with us. But during those 3 weeks, we wanted to ride a century (100 miles), so in the weeks leading up to the trip, we rode the folding bikes quite a bit to get comfortable on them.

Going forward, I would like to ride another century on my sport touring bicycle. So I've started riding it again to sort out some issues and get more comfortable on it.

I would also like to do a particular climbing challenge, and my titanium is a good little climber, so I will be riding it more frequently to get more comfortable on it.

Van Goghs Ear

4 bikes here:


1. Defy advanced 0 main bike and money sink for upgrades


2. Anthem X2 29er full suspension mountain bike for my XC ventures


3. Jake CX bike, muddy/rainy commuter or round town light grocery bike


4. Spec crosstrail elite is my flat bar winter commuter that gets busted out when the snow hits the ground or it's cold enough to use my bar mitts (a necessity for temperatures below -25)


I use them all quite frequently, but the road bike is what eats up the most miles as I use it for pleasure riding, and aside from the anthem, the other 2 are purely utility.


I even have a setup to strap my cross country skis to my crosstrail.

fa63

I had five, now I am down to three and trying to downsize further to two. I ride on the road only, and I have decided that having one main bike plus a back-up (which also acts as a commuter/beater bike) is the sweet spot for me.

igosolo

7 bikes for me:
Main road bike = 85% use
Backup Road bike = Once in a while use
Cross bike on semi slicks = 10% use (Rain bike and also my travel bike as it is aluminum frame and more all purpose with discs)
FS mountain bike = 5% use
Another road bike my brother uses but retired for me
Old steel Bianchi road - retired
Old mountain bike - retired

I don't sell them as don't need the money and each has some sort of nostalgic value to me. Maybe I am just weird like that....

LGHT

I had 4 bikes pretty much exactly like you, but I just sold 2 bikes in the last month and will also be selling my main ride soon. Why? Because I only rode the other 3 bikes 1% of the time like you. Although my older bikes “looked” cool they are not doing much if anything for me since I almost never ride them. The only bike I don’t plan to sell is my hybrid that I have big 28 tires on and I ride in bad weather or on the horse trails when I want to kick up some dirt.

I figured if I sale all my un-used bikes and put that money toward the dream bike that I actually ride often I can pretty much get anything I want without the wife dismembering me afterward. So basically it comes down to buying a better bike on a limited budget and keeping my old bikes or getting a truly amazing dream bike and selling off the old ones. It didn’t take long to make that decision.

69chevy

I have four. One for me, one for the wife, one for each kid.

If I was rich, we'd have 5 each, but I'm not. Haha.

Darth_Firebolt

12, but one is my wife's, and 1 is my award winning bmx bike that hurts to ride, and would hurt more to sell. Then there are the frames and parts boxes, extra wheels and tires, and the pumps and seat bags... my wife has 4 brothers, so i have some "extras" in my garage in case some of them w/o bikes want to go for a family cruise. Cheaper than the 8 or 9 Jeeps two of my BIL's have rusting in their yards! I make sure to remind my wife of that fact when she sees a Craigslist tab open on my tablet.

tarwheel 

I have 5 bikes and ride them all. They include 2 touring bikes, a sport touring, a cyclocross and a classic Italian racing bike. All of them are steel. The Italian gets ridden the least because I don't do many fast group rides any more but I've owned it the longest and it has a lot of sentimental value -- plus it looks fantastic.

Currently, my touring bikes get ridden the most because I bike commute most days and they are most suitable for that, altho I have commuted on all of my bikes. I also have been doing a fair amount of touring and riding on greenways the past few years, and the touring bikes are best for that. My sport touring bike (Waterford RST-22) is my best and favorite bike, and I commute quite a lot on it when the weather is fair since it currently doesn't have fenders. I also often take the Waterford on long routes because it rides and handles so nicely.

My cyclocross bike is probably the most dispensable because my touring bikes can handle most of the unpaved trails and roads that I mainly use it for. However, it is such a cool bike that I have no plans to get rid of it. I also use it for commuting when no rain is in the forecast, and could use it as my regular commute if I added fenders, but I don't want to do that. It is also a travel bike, and although I have never used it for that, I like the option of being able to pack it into a relatively small case if needed sometime.

anotherbrian

I'd like to drop a huge wad (going back to OP post) this fall on a Domane with Di2, or similar endurance bike, but I've had too many bikes in the garage that have gone unridden for too long (at least six). I decided I'd sell at least three bikes before I bought another.

Last night I sold my Surly Big Dummy cargo bike ... one of the funnest bikes in the garage, but the kids have gotten big enough to ride their own bikes, and I hadn't ridden it in months. Next up will be a ~1989 Trek 520 touring bike that hasn't been ridden in ~15 years and one (or two) of many MTB's that haven't been ridden since I mostly started riding road. I don't have any sentimental value to any of the bikes, it's just been a lot easier over the years to buy bikes than it is to sell them.

garciawork

I have five personally, plus my wife's roadie. Custom steel is my current road bike, an old Centurion Le Mans I was given by my wife's aunt that is just cool, my first real MTB from 2001 (Specialized Rockhopper) that is completely modernized with 10 speed XT that I can't get ride of, a Lynksey Pro 29 Lefty and a Lynskey Stratus fatbike. I alternate between the two Lynskey's for MTB rides, just based on how I am feeling. I REALLY want to add a disc steel or Ti road bike, either Lynskey Sportive disc or Niner RLT steel, and then a 27.5+ like the Jamis Dragonslayer. Then... I would still want more bikes but it would be very hard to justify them at least.

Beach Comber

I've been selling off all year so I'm finally down to a manageable number. My end goal is one race/road/workout (currently a Bianchi Sempre), one backup road/commuter/light sand & gravel (Currently a Trek 1.2). one full tourer (currently a Schwinn Voyageur), and one light trail (currently an old AL Mongoose). And maybe down to two steel collectors that rarely get ridden but can't give up but also can't decide which ones.

Shuffleman

17!!
I only thought that my garage was full. I just sold my beach cruiser that I never rode and a hybrid as well, which dropped me to 3 bikes. I have a new 29er and a new road bike. I was going to sell my old GT 26er mtb but decided that I was too attached to the bike to sell it. Thus, I converted it to a hybrid. I use all 3 bikes all the time and they all have distinct purposes. I do not see having more bikes in the future. My son has 2 and my wife has one. That is enough for us. I also tend to get attached to my bikes so having a backup would be pointless as I would simply never ride it. I value space more at this stage.

Myosmith

The road bike gets 75% of the miles. The touring also sees quite a bit of action. The MTB doesn't get ridden much but might get used on some gravel grinders this fall. Bike #4 is the foul weather or trainer bike.