What bikes do you want to own?

Maybe.....

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11979_5486559,00.html

Hi everyone! great community, so much information and very good taste!

I grow up dreaming about italian beauties between my legs, now that i 'm a grown up
i know that if i ever buy a frame again would be something close to italian school
without the need to be refered as some.

Those are my dream finalists

If I was going to have any recumbulent, it would have to be an M5 Carbon Lowracer
http://www.m5-ligfietsen.nl/uploads/Itemizer/popups/1304.1.jpg

How about the Nocom

http://www.recumbents.com/WISIL/misc/nocom/nocomside.jpg

or the Carbent

http://bentupcycles.com/merchant/777/images/site/carbent1.jpg

Pinarello Montello in red and black !

needs a cycle ball bike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzH0mvr7X2Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzH0mvr7X2A

Boo

Commuter track bike
Velodrome track bike
Roadbike in the £5k segment

^ Pretty much this.

haha Jeez, did this come from our discussion yesterday?

1) Carbon geared road bike. The nice bike for racing and long road rides
2) geared CX bike. For cyclo-cross, maybe light touring
3) Polo bike
4) Steel track bike
5) winter road bike (not quite a beater but kinda)
6) SS/Fixed beater (pub bike)
7) MTB, prob a cross-country, do it all kind
8) specific long distance tourer

1. Italian steel racer for commuting and long rides. Geared. Individual parts chosen to suit my needs.
   
   

(2). Classic mid-90's cross-country mountain bike. Probably either an Orange or Cannondale. Not sure about front shocks. Needs to handle like a boss and have wide risers.

(3) Modern mountain bike. Not sure if I'd go full-suspension, but at least needs good travel up front. An OTP Specialized or Cannondale would keep me happy.

(4) Modern racer. I might not like this as I've never tried one. It'd need to have crabon all over the shop, but not look too twatty.

(5) Silly top-end late 80's or 90's racer. Could be lo-pro. Something like a Colnago in SLX or a 753 Peugeot. Record or Dura Ace. Sexy.

can i just say: there was a definitive answer to this question some time ago. 68 bikes were defined as the ideal number in which you would have a great bike for any occasion. Anyone who things they need less than this simply isn't trying hard enough.

end.

My current ideal stable:

Titanium fixed - this would be the bike i ride 90% of the time, used for commuting and long rides.

Fixed for Track and TTs - silly carbon wheels a must

Folding Bike - Any will do, just to get round rush hour trains out of london.

Road Bike - modern, vaguely good groupset. for club rides and touring.

1. Steel fixed number

2. Fancy pants WSD road bike

3. Actual track bike

4. A lo pro for shits and giggles

5. Hella sweet polo bike

1) Race bike - quick enough to race crits/RRs locally
2) Track bike - For fixed gear TTs and track racing
3) CX bike - steel framed and capable of everything from winter training, to touring to CX races

but if I'm allowed more space than in my current house...

3) TT bike
4) CX bike
5) Traditional steel framed audax bike
6) Traditional Sturdy touring bike
7) Brompton

1) Everyday steel/titanium fixed bike for commuting
2) Fancy track bike with carbon wom wom wom wheels
3) Steel 'beater' roadbike with modernish groupset
4) Carbon roadbike with novelty carbon wheels and sram
5) Bunnyhopping about town fixie skidder hipster trick bike for lolz

1) MTB/ CX bike- still debating which I want more at the moment.
2) Road
3) NJS beater with front rack (because) (in pink) (may not be NJS due to budget constraints)
[one extra bike that is TT/ tri based, and one road bike at my Grandparents]

I should be on the way to this by the end of summer, hopefully.

1) fixed all-round bike
2) fixed everyday bike

halfway there.

Mine?

Fixed Ti everyday bike
Geared Ti road bike for day rides/sportives
Hardtail MTB
Steel tourer
Tandem
SS MTB with slick tyres for town messing about
Upright fixed path cruiser for lazy rides

Want/need....
CX
Full sus MTB
OTT lopro
Full carbon full on race bike
Ordinary
Unicycle

hello (met some of you at lmnh last week)

have
Aluminium road bike, a caad10,
A steel hard tail, idle at the moment, needs rejuvenating
an orange and lacquer Brompton

would like
geared CX bike for winter and trying my hand at 'cross
a track bike
the Raleigh Replica Flyer I owned from the mid-80s (keep watching them on ebay)
a 29er hard tail
a pretty custom made steel ss for sunny day riding

though I think 4 is probably heading for >S, so might have maxed out N already
ideal number of bikes is n+1 < S
where is is spousal / partner / flatmates separation

I wrote out a list with 9 bikes, but then I looked at it and thought and decided that an ideal collection doesn't include things that would make you feel like a prick for not being able to put them to good use. So:

1. Good weather/special occasion fixed - I have this
   
2. Bad weather/everyday fixed - I have this
   
3. Good weather/special occasion gears - a nice carbon road bike, I'm planning an okay one at least
   
4. Bad weather/everyday gears - a steel CX bike
   
5. Raleigh Twenty - for shops/pub/loaner/because I love the things
   

I would like my year 2000 Marin Bearvalley built up like I have the hawk hill with some magura rim brakes, kona p2 forks, ultra wide bars and the yellow/orange paintjob, all the parts that weren't bars/forks/seatpost would be silver and anodized red (especially on the rim breaks).

Other than that a alloy colnago.

I know somebody that's got a completely original Marin bear valley, £100 would tempt him lots for it not to be his.........

Old steel road bike - Italian of some description
Old steel bike, like a blue colnargo, with modern parts but some old skool, silly expensive campag parts
Cannon dale caad5 - the frames are so sexy!!!!!!
Stupid fast tt steel bike
Fixed lo pro
Modern alu winter bike
Fat bike
29er, rigid ss
Hybrid built proberly from a bianchi absolutely slammed stem with riser bars - a hhsb with gears basically
And a edison cycles bike, custom built, as it's just down the road from me

The thing leading me towards getting the cannon dale first is I can't help but ride them, if I had the colnargo of my dreams I'd want to ride it every day and it'd get dirty. Maybe if I got 2............

Where does this end??????

ti fixed bike
ti road bike
ti hard tail mtb
all safely in the stable

things i would like:
hydraulic disc braked CX bike with option for racks/mudguards would be a useful addition (work/winter commute/cx use)

a full suspension crabon mtb

a brompton for work

carbon race bike with electronic groupo

Hello, I'm just about to order a Bob Jackson frame, and found this beautiful blue colour.
Do you know which of the Bob Jackson blue colours this is ?

Thanks,
Per D from Sweden

most weather/light touring/commuting road bike
vintage classic
hot road bike
kid carrying, trailer hauling practical bike
child-friendly tandem

I have the first two, and a very tepid road bike (I'm paralyzed by indecision about whether to go for hot neo-retro like @breso's fuscia Pinarello Montello or modern carbon). The last but one is a current project and perhaps the tandem will get taken seriously next year.