jim-bob

This is mostly for those of you with larger stables, but anyone's welcome to answer :

Suppose you need to get rid of all of your bikes but one. Which do you keep?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, for some reason, and it always seems to come down to keeping my SS mtb.

dirtyphotons

yup, if it was one of my existing bikes it'd be the ss cross. if it were any bike i wanted, probably a nice geared cross.

Natron

My Surly Cross-Check. It does everything. geared cross 4 lyfe.

dutret

I'd probably have to go with geared cross too. It will be good for road rides and commuting. Anything technical off road would suck but it would still be possible.

gokiburi

not the kona??!

jim-bob

That doesn't narrow it down much, four bikes in the house are konas, and the bike I'd keep is a shameless knockoff of Joe Murray's 90s Kona geometry.

Oh! You mean the uuuuuuuuugly bike. It didn't make the cut. Poor thing.

isotopesope

i'd also have to keep my geared cross bike... while we're playing pretend, i'd also have to get a steel desalvo to replace my current aluminum frame.

hairlessbill

Toss up between the cross bike and the mtb. I did the one bike thing with my old Bridgestone MB2 for a long time (commute, off-road, charity rides, touring, club rides, racing) and I could make it work for anything. Not sure how well the cross bike would work as an all-out offroad machine but for everything else it fits.

estratton

My cervelo.... it's my baby.

DoshKel

My conversion. So if I get hit, I don't have to kill myself.

BostonFixed

I would put gears back on the touring frame that I converted to fixed gear.

Retem

my old touring bike after all it was my first real bike

eddiebrannan

i only have one

caloso

The Trek 5200. I figure you can always commute on a fast bike but you can't race on a slow bike.

Fixxxie

My Cross Bike for sure (it's an old converted touring bike)

Igneous Faction

My only bike. KHS Flite with Rush fork, miche's to aeroheads, risers and a comfy seat.

vinnydelnegro

interesting but not totally surprising that many folks are picking geared bikes. i would go with my mercian conversion. i ride it more than any of my other bikes. actually...if i found out that i could only have one bike, i would just get rid of everthing that i have right now and go with a custom fixed gear. don't know who i would go with but man...i saw a circle a outside the grocery store today that would make me consider that company.

jim-bob

When's the other one showing up? I saw it at NAHBS.

pitboss

**** a bunch of track. get durty

I'd want my Santa Cruz Chameleon back (more versitile than a straight-up SS)

mander

I really like my Devinci Caribou touring bike. It's built off this cool do anything cantilever'd aluminum frame. The geo is "toury" but serious tourers don't like it---it's a bit more aggressive than a pure touring bike and hence more versatile. You can fit huge tires under fenders, front and rear racks, and 3 bottle cages. So depending on the wheelset, fenders and rack setup you can use it for commuting, ld road riding, loaded touring or cross.

octopus magic

I'd probably keep my Country Road Bob. It's been a real do-all bike for me, and has enough braze ons to do anything I really want with it.

Granted it's not a sprint bike, but it never pretended to be a track bike. r

dustinlikewhat

Surly Instigator.
https://velospace.org/node/1470

pinkrobe

[highlander]There can be only one![/highlander]

As much as I enjoy all my bikes, I would have to go with my geared mtn bike. The SS bikes are great, but they are limited. I'd even give up the Cervelo...

Plow Boy

98 Trek 7000, back when they made them to last. Currently fix/free but has been set up with trigger shifters and drop bars with bar end shifters.

fixedfiend

I'm not the only one then. That chameleon still brings tears to my eyes thinking back on how much fun I had on it. Hell, I ride the Colnago still thinking it's my Chameleon.