but maybe fried beans are just as good, and we're just wasting time...


rip

rip indeed... to mitch dying.

To hell with purple people.

Currently in my garage:

80s Bianchi conversion. Recently deceased. Hopefully I'll find a cheap 56/57cm frame to replace it this weekend.

Specialized Stumpjumper FS Hardtail mountain bike. I wish I had a place to use this more. If it doesn't start getting more use, I may sell it.

And then theres the wish list:
Nice road bike (There is a really nice older Merckx bike on Ebay with a full campy groupo. If only I had the money)

Jonny Cycle fixed gear. That man makes some pretty bikes.

4+ !

And I'm sixteen..

Man! how do you guys afford all those bikes?

This aint' a cheap hobby

Back up to four. Last week replaced the Nishiki that my wife backed into two years ago.Now a B and H city bike. If I upgrade my touring bike to a , likely ? Bianchi Volpe and possible get a mountain bike for the Friday group ride- that will bring us up to six.

3.5
Soma Rush, Centurion Accordo conversion, vintage SS Schwinn Speedster , front half of a tandem.

I had refried beans (and rice, pico de dallo in tortillas) last nite for dinner!

Anyway remember that "How many track bikes is enough?" thread?
I'd like to bring back the old forumla to how many bikes you should own:
"X + 1"
x= the number of bikes you currently own.

I like them all, I ride them all (in the order below), I like to know their history, I give/sell cheaply some of them to my friends.
1)conversion I have build using unknown make lugged steel TT frame
2)steel Colnago Master set up as a winter fixed gear
3)Romet Sport set up with front suspension and bullhorns
3)Gianni Motta TT funny bike being restored
3)titanium Pinarello with Campy Record parts - might consider selling this one
3)Polrad track being restored

I am thinking of getting back titanium Wheeler T1 I gave to my friend - it would make wonderful city fixed gear

So, all in all I have just 3 bikes

Plenty of people have bikes to give away for free/real cheap if you let 'em know you're always looking. And there's always the trash. Hurray for free bikes!

Ha, my Accord is '81 and a guy at my LBS wants it badly

1 and 1 bein' built.
iro jamie roy (which i love like a son)
and being built an independent fabrication crown jewel with track ends (their shop is literally a quarter mile from my house so i can go bug 'em night and day).

Gios? the one with replacable dropouts? Hmm, I would love this one.

4 total, all have a different purpose

1. Kalavinka
2. guerciotti (conversion)
3. Raleigh (Conversion)
4. Trek Mnt. bike (soon to be SS)

1. Trek conversion (needs to be replaced, with probably a Pake or IRO)
2. Centurion fendered conversion (rain/ishty weather commuter)
3. Second-hand custom Spicer SS MTB (can be geared, I just don't have a rear der. for it)
4. '98 Giant "Eddie Bauer Edition" MTB (redubbed The Asshammer, currently just a parts holder).

Once I get a house, I will be able to get a FS MTB and a geared roadie. Maybe then the Asshammer can be a cargo bike with an Xtracycle.

this is fun-diculous. (that's my integration of the words "fun" and "ridiculous," by the way).

my question is, when is a bike not a bike, just a bunch of parts?

how many bikes DO i own, anyway?

i've got my IRO. i've also got my silly old frame from my first fixed gear. i've got a 12-year old trek mtb that will eventually become my fixed tourer/rain bike/pseudocyclocross tougher-than-gravel bike, but since it doesn't have appropriate wheels, handlebars, cranks, or, you know, any of several other important Bike parts, is it a bike? then there's my friend's purple old tenspeed in my garage, which i'm not supposed to tinker with because i'm holding it till she gets back into the country.

so do i have one bike, or four?

I voted for three because that is what I am trying to get my stable down to at this point but I'm sure once I get it down to three I will be buying/building a new one.

so heres the three I am keeping

fuji conversion
iron horse warrior geared 1x8 mtb
mid 90's steel raleigh m-60 in the process of being converted with track ends to a SS/fix

trying to get rid of my meral fixed gear and I have a whole garage full of other random parts and pieces with a few frames laying around

1 bike. 2 wheelsets.

Matt 6:19

Romic Track bike (new today!!! first real track bike)
repainted peaguot beater fixed gear
2003 Fuji Team road bike
80s Trek 800 for rain days and whatever else.
70s adult sized tricycle
huffy tall bike
+69352 beater frames for different weird bike projects.

bought my Raleigh from my sister for 100 bucks in 1988. Aside from occasional tires, cogs, rings, chains, and bearings (and oh, yeah, the brooks), haveny spent a penny on that bike in 18 years. It can be cheap

this is old, but i love this photo:

since then i've sold my iro and scott built up his allegro track bike....

i think i'm up to 10?
80's bianchi pista, guerciotti road bike (which is too small for me and will soon be replaced with a de rosa), geared douglas cross bike, ss rigid iro highlander, norco geared hardtail, peugeot conversion, kona 24" bmx cruiser, schwinn suburban chopper, 60's j.c. higgins beach cruiser, koxx level boss trials bike...

i think the real question is, "how many more bikes do you want?"

ISOTOPESOPE -

its time i made a run to the springs...if all those are yours, i want to buy you your drink of choice to take a look. I have some friends down there I need to hook up with anyway.

as for my stable, it seems to always be in flux but the ones stayin:

1)nakagawa track
2)KHS "bent tube" aero track (work bike)
3)Colnago Technos 2000 w/ record 10 (my road)
4)Colnago ? mid 80ies road 6spd beater (also used for work)
5)Cannondale custom MTB

Trek mountain bike - trails, singletrack, dirt roads and fire lanes.
Orbea Road bike - high speed blasting around the countryside, up and down mountains.
IRO fixie - heading to Target to pick up some beer or over to the bookstore to get some coffee

Maybe next year I'll get a touring bike or some cool-looking cruiser. Who knows?


I have more than one pair of shoes, why not more than one bike?