Newly built singlespeed (20yr old cromoly frame)
Cervelo tri bike
Custom alu frame training bike
Alu frame commuter bike
Giant MTB
Softride frame hanging in garage that I am thinking of building up as another training bike

Each one has a purpose so I don't think I have too many bikes (just don't ask my wife !)

hi. im a n00b. i have an old late 80's mongoose all terrain bike which is definitely my beater. I just got a new Bianchi San Jose which im liking a lot. I live in western mass where there are lots of big hills. I would like to try fixed but I dont know if i could handle a fixed with this hilly area of assachusetts. Im loving the san jose, even though my legs have turned to rubber because of it. Maybe I'll put an internal gear on it someday. If I move to nyc, then i'll definitely look into trying fixed gear riding.

Cycling is fun, plain and simple. I do it for fun, and I try to never loose sight of that. If I'm not riding in my free time, I most likley am tweaking/cleaning them.

Working bikes:

1) Specialized Epic Comp (for sale)
2) Surly Instigator - bar bike with ss conversion
3) Gary Fisher Kaitai - XC ss conversion bike...this is my main ride
4) KHS Flite 500 road - painted pumpkin orange
5) 197? Puch Rugby Sports 3-speed - still has issues, but I do ride it!


And coming this week:

6) IRO Mark V - all black with nitto bull horns

Looking for:

7) 24" or 26" Unicycle - Schwinn or similiar, just something to get started on for cheap
8) 29er SS to replace that Specialized I have for sale:D

Misc:

9) My first wheels...a Ross Tricycle
10) My second bmx bike from when I was like 6...It's a Schwinn
11) My third bike, a Schwinn BMX of some sort
12) Trek 820 cro-mo Mountain Track frame


My first 2-wheeled bike was a hand-me-down Strawberry Shortcake bike with streamers and a flowery basket...I was the only male cousin;) My first mountain bike was cut up so I could have a breaker bar to fit over my lug nut wrench!

As far as parts, tires, spare rims (only 26" MTN rims), tubes, tools....quite an assortment. As far as regulating the size of my stable, well, I have some guidelines set to keep me from bringing the crap home and letting it accumulate.

In a cycling magazine they had answers to the question "is there such thing as too many bikes?" Best response was "as we all know the optimum number of bikes is n + 1, where n is the number you currently have."

Donkey Hodie: I know where you can get a chrome Pista in Western Mass for $400 :) Check craigslist! I myself have a lot of hills around me (1:45 west of Springfield in the Catskills of NY) and I am not too worried about riding fixed. If you like, check back in with me in say, a month or so, and I'll let you know how it's going:)

I used to own 4. three track bikes and one road bike. then i got sickened by all the materialism and how some people needed fancy bikes to validate, or identify. LAME.

so i sold all but one, which will be sold after my current project is done.

My current project:
I am trading a painting for a frame built by a friend. NO, there's no waiting list, NO i didn't spend thousands of dollars on it and YES it will be comfortable. My art for someone else's art. Good times.

kevinsubaru...400 bucks? sounds like a good deal! I used to live in bekkit near lee and it is definitley hella hilly out in the hills. I might be interested in that pista...could you PM me a link? what size is it? My san jose is a 58. Im 6'2" with a 32" inseem.
...ill check craigs list for it. thanks

edit> just saw it on craigslist... 51cm. way too small for me.

6 or 7 and change....

1. '03 Santa Cruz SuperLight, root beer brown, Fox, XT, Hayes Discs
2. '03 Litespeed Tuscany (Road bike)
3. '93 Specialized RockHopper A1FS (one of the first 200, US made oooh) NOTHING stock, converted to rigid SS
4. Early 90's Specialized Allez Epic (Road bike) converted to SS commuter, soon to be warrantied for 06 Roubaix frameset...thank you specialized!
5. Redline 24" cruiser BMX bike, mostly stock, nothing trick
6. '80 Supergoose Mongoose 20" BMX I've had since I was 11, recently did a mild resto including new Skyway Tuff Wheels
7. '71 Bianchi Record (or Strada? don't know for sure) that will be my new SS commuter in a couple weeks.

mid 90's Spec. Stumpjumper frame that will replace the aging Rockhopper soon.

The only ones I don't ride regularly are the BMX bikes, so I don't feel too bad about having so many...

Ok, so in my garage right now....

70's Gazelle Trim Trophy road bike - really nice, paid $30 for it. 531, Shimano 600 - no worries - I use it for longer fast road rides

Nigel Dean road frame in the midst of being converted into my first fixie

Chopper I built from a cheapass MTB, with 24" ape hanger bars, and a banana seat. This got stolen from my garden last week. Total cost, including parts, $90

Double boinger department store MTB, to which I added a huge foam seat, bars from a motocross bike, and a long stem, which I use like a cruiser. Or to take off Sweet Ramps. My most expensive bikeat $100!

Uknown make Freestyle BMX - layback seat post, stunt pegs, giro headset. I wanted to do all that when I was a kid, so when this came up as part of a package on ebay, I was happy to pay $15 for the two bikes..

Falcon Windsor 531 tourer. Got it for nothing from Freecycle. Has fenders, rack, now has panniers, comfortable, and looks enough that I don't mind leaving it locked outside the station all day when I go to London. So it's my station bike. I've never even cleaned it, and it still has the rusty chromed rims on it, all to make it look less stealable.

Raleigh road bike. Resprayed, so don't know model, but it's light. Doing it up for a friend who will come riding with me.

E G Bates track bike - gorgeous, but it's to sell on.

E G Bates TT bike - a "funny bike", tiny front wheel, 753 frame. Also to sell on

Viner road bike - again to sell on

2 x Moulton Minis - picked them both up for $20. One a 3 speed, running fine. The other a singlespeed, needs new freewheel.

Chopper I built for my son. Chrome BMX, I extended the forks by 15 inches or so, and added a banana seat. FAR too cool for school - thank God this one wasn't stolen. Cost - $5 for the bike off the tip, perhaps $40 in parts.

Sons MTB, and BMX - both free out of the hedge.

Girlfriends MTB

Gas-pipe Jacques Anquetil Mixte I'm restoring for my g/f. The riding position on her MTB hurts her back, so I reversed the stem on this thing, and added North Road style bars, to give her the ultimate Sit Up and Beg riding position. This one was free from out of a hedge.

Resprayed Raleigh, upgraded with all kinds of nice stuff, which may take the place of the Anquetil. Picking this up tonight, so we'll see. Paid $15 for it, when buying the Bates bikes and the Viner

Also on the way are 3 MTB's - free from Freecycle. One to do up for a friend, so he can give another friends bike back, one for a new chopper to replace the stolen one, one to do up for G/f's sisters boyfriend.

What would I LIKE to have? So many.

A track bike - something nice in lugged steel would rock, but a Fuji would do. I want to ride it on the track. I could keep the Bates, but there's a lot of profit waiting to be made there.

A fixed beater for London - I want to do up a freebie as a fix, Moustache bars, rack, fenders. Leave it locked at the station in London, so I can ride to my meetings as well as to the station. It needs to be something that I don't mind risking losing!

An Xtracycle, or a trailer, or something. Would love to do my grocery shopping by bike.

I'm not sure what "enthusiast really means. I know from experience it's possible to be enthusiastic about something without ever really doing anything about it. There is nothing wrong with being a collector, but the difference between a collector and a a bicyclist is wether they ride their bikes or just look at them. For someone who rides every day, and likes doing all sorts of riding 5 or six bikes with distinctly different purposes is not unreasonable. For me 4 seems like the perfect number, but I do have a hard time keeping it down to 4 all the time. Every one of my bikes sees more miles though than many bikes that are the sole bike of their owner, and sit corroding in basements and garages 362 days a year. MY family thinks I have too many bikes, but they are hard pressed to tell me which one I should get rid of. Each has it's purpose, and each is loved and ridden.

I would not want to ride 66.6 miles with a 5 mile climb on my grocery getter. I would not want to haul 60 pounds of groceries on my fasty fasty road bike. I would not want to live without a fixie, but sometimes a boy wants gears. If you ride all winter through snow and salty slushy crap, it's a good idea to have a bike just for that, because it WILL get trashed. Some bikes can do a tolerable job both on and off road, but if you like Mountain biking you need a mountain bike, and if you like to road racing you need a race bike, but don't try touring on that bike unless you like kicking the crap out of your panniers every rev. Different tools for different jobs. While a swiss army knife may adequately replace a scissors, screwdriver set, cork screw, and wire strippers for some people I would hardly call a full set of tools a excessive.

everyday bike (older bianchi track)
nice bike (older serotta track)
road bike (mid 90s lemond zurich)
? (2003 bianchi pista, this may get sold or become a single speed bad weather bike)

hmm

-iro angus, daily ride
-fixed beater, drunk/rain/winter bike
-fuji newest, 02 i think? road training/racing bike
-azonic steelhead ss, dont ride this as much as i would like but it has some issues

That's what I'm saying. I use the road bike for the occasional long-distance ride, the mountain bike for the occasional trip down to Moab or other parts south Utah, and the cross-check for when my body hurts too much for fixed-gear but not wimpy enough for gears (plus the big tires are fun for bombing down through campus during the undergrad obstacle course). The cruisers were in the basement of my apartment when I moved in and my wife and I have been hoping to bring them out to critical mass sometime (they are basically his and hers matching). We (my wife and I) share the three fixies, which are our day to day rides. I tend to use the motobecane when I am downtown because it has a huge gear ratio that is great for riding downtown, but sucks for riding up to my lab (major climb). Plus, it hs no brakes, which I would hate to use coming back down those hills with. Most days when take a fixie up to lab I use the steamroller. The wife does not use the motobecane and prefers the steamroller. so when I take the motobecane, she takes the steamroller, and when I take the steamroller she takes the kogswell. Some of my bikes get used often, some ocasionally. The Kogswell I got from a friend (all set up with generator hub and automatic lights) for $300 and the crosscheck I got for $250. Cannot pass up a good deal.

I got me a Surly CrossCheck (doubles as a fixed/free) and a REAL (FU(K Trek) Bontrager road bike.

1) Specialized Stumpjumper hard tail MTB. Over time, it's gone from 'mid-level bike' to 'mid-level frame with high-end components'. Lusting after a full-suspension bike, probably a Santa Cruz Blur LTR or an Intense 5.5.

2) Giant Bowery. Got it to try out this fixed-gear thing on the cheap. Now that I love it, and have started on the road to 'replacing the entire bike one component at a time', I'm going to stop that madness and just get a nicer bike. Probably a decked-out IRO Jamie Roy.

1) Fixed Cross Check
2) Specialized Allez- Literally in pieces, haven't ridden it since January.
3) ~1970 Gitane Tour de France w/ Campy Gran Sport. Dug this bad boy out of the trash a few weeks ago. Almost all the French stuff (except Mafac brakes/levers) were replaced with Campy. It's been in need of a good scrub down and that's what it's getting right now. Might ride it as 10 speed for a while then go fixed with those massive, schweet Campy dropouts.

one.

I'm with you, TiP.

Mt 6:19 and all.

#edit# - lol.....didnt realize I responded 6 wks ago...mustve been drinking that day.

1. Rivendell Quickbeam
2. Late 70s/early 80s Fuji "Special Road Racer" FG conversion
3. Gunnar Sport

1. Jamis Dakar XLT 2.0 (my beloved mountain bike which could never be ridden on the road because of its dual suspension, so I obviously need my...)
2. Schwinn Suburban singlespeed (for cruising/bar rides)
3. Soma Rush fixed gear (to have a fun fast bike to ride on the road for pleasure)

Now I just need to get a geared road bike (Scott Speedster maybe), a hardtail MTB, a rigid or singlespeed MTB, a touring bike....aaahhh the list goes on

1. Giant TCR road bike
2. Motobecane Fly mountain bike
3. old Schwinn single speed (rescued from the dumpster), really fun to ride with my kids

Next up will be a single speed flat bar road bike.
Then a full suspension mountain bike.

By the time those two get built, I'll have come up with something else. Is it wrong that my car is in the driveway while the bikes are parked in the garage aka trophy case?

Masi Speciale Fixed LTD
Norco 125 dirt jumper MTB
Fit BMX
Beater Kuwahara MTB that gets lent out to friends.

The stable at my house includes

Giant Boulder Mountain bike (to replace my older, nicer one that was stolena few weeks back)
~75 Motobecane Mirage (converted to FG)
1 Diamondback BMX (well 2 really but one is a total pile)

That gives me a total of 3, becuase the diamondback is my roommates but I do the wrenching on it for him. The motobecane is my daily rider, I lend the Boulder to another roommate so he can bike to work.

Currently, I have four. I have never had more than four completely built-up at any given time. More than that, I can't manage because I never like to be put in a position where I have to choose which bike to ride. I don't like to feel like one bike is being wasted just sitting instead of being ridden.

My stable and their functions:

SOMEC Dynamic - For training, charity rides, group rides, posing hard
Gios V-107 - For racing, posing hard. (soon to be replaced with a Storck Scenario C1.1)
Vivalo - For racing, fixed-gear riding, posing hard
IRO Rob Roy - for commuting to work and touring, posing hard among the randonneurs.

and a Triumph Bonneville, for when I want to pose hard, but not have to exercise.

Trek full suspension mtn bike
Giant hardtail mnt bike
Fuji road bike
'78 raleigh fixed gear
29er hardtail coming this spring :)