M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

Was going to post this in an ancient n+1 thread I found bit think I’ll post it here instead.

Peeps that have several many bikes, do you ride them all? Do they all do different things?

I was up at like 11 which was as follows,

Track bike, kept at the velodrome.
Brompton
Raleigh twenty
Fake Raleigh twenty project (runs but I have plans for it)
Pashley
Schwinn klunker ssmtb
Full sus ssmtb
Kona Honzo hardtail ssmtb
Lugged ss gravel bike (drop bar)
Flying Scot Fixed gravel bike (swept back bars)
Belt drive 3 speed gravel daddy commuter (swept bars)
Ti retro road bike

So a lot of them did very much the same job.

I wasn’t enjoying having so many options. I think my brain is a bit adhd addled already so I can find it difficult to decide what kind of riding I want to do, having to then choose which of the bikes that can handle that kind of riding I want to use was a bit much.

I’ve now got the belt drive gravel daddy up for sale and have actually boxed it up so it’s not available for me to use. I’ve also stripped the retro road bike (it doesn’t take guards so probably not much use for the next 4-6 months!) and the full sus mtb down to make them a) unavailable for use and b) easier to store. Actually I’ve done a classified for the road frame as I’m thinking about building the fake Raleigh twenty up with the parts from the road bike.

I rode my klunker for the first time in a long time last week which was really nice.

I’m still pretty far off n+1=4 (as was the title of the thread I was going to post in) but I think having fewer options is definitely the way to go.