How many bikes is it right to own?

HAHA, quickvit just got owned!

Flattery doesn't mean it's going in your mouth either........

Flattery doesn't mean it's going in your mouth either........
:( suppose i dont want a diseased mouth either. . . xD

:( suppose i dont want a diseased mouth either. . . xD

It already is, from what I've heard ;o))

Trikes?

Trikes?

the thread is "how many bikes...", so I explicitly excluded unicycles and trikes.

You need to start a new thread for "How many trikes is it right to own?" We don't want that kind of perversion here, thank you very much.

When I talk to people about 29ers, they seem to be thinking about getting a rigid niner as an addition to a collection which already includes a hardtail 26er, so they are probably different enough to count.

In that case you'll have to include this (32er?)
http://twentynineinches.com/lazy-index.php?file=Big Wheeled Ballyhoo 2007/IMG_3985.jpg
http://twentynineinches.com/lazy-index.php?file=Big Wheeled Ballyhoo 2007/IMG_4032.jpg

In that case you'll have to include this (31er?)
[URL]http://twentynineinches.com/images/Big%20Wheeled%20Ballyhoo%202007/IMG_3985.jpg[URL]

What's the actual ETRTO size on that? Looks like the same size as this, which is called a 36er

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Looks smaller than the 36er to me I kinda guessed it was a 32er which would make it 780c (again guessing). Not something for us 30" innside leg and size 9 feet types I imagine.

Looks smaller than the 36er to me I kinda guessed it was a 32er which would make it 780c (again guessing). Not something for us 30" innside leg and size 9 feet types I imagine.

I think this picture illustrate the sheer size of the wheel;

I think this picture illustrate the sheer size of the wheel;

The original 36" Monster Cruiser is quite nasty, but it did kind of kick start the 36" Uni and 36er market. There are much better tyres and rims now.

I seem to have reached what could be a limit based on what my friends think is okay..

I currently own:
4 track-bikes (one of them - a Faggin - is not build up yet).
2 other fixed gear-bikes (A lo-pro conversion and one i plan to use for winter/polo)
1 road bike (Fondreist 8spd Campagnolo Athena)
1 tall-bike (build from shit Colnago-frames;)
1 cargo-bike..

Now, the problem is that I found an old Rossin, pink with funky yellow/black graphics, in a junkpile of old bikes the basement under the house our apartment is in... And it seems that at least 2 of my friends thinks it unfair that I don't give the Rossin to them, since I have so many bikes..

I don't think I will, since It would be quite a nice bike if I restore it with Shimano 600-components or something like that.. And I think my buddies would just make one of these fixie's of it.

And, just to bring the thread off topic, if anyone know anything about Rossin Quadro, with Columbus Matrix-tubing in the same crimped shape some steel Colnagos have please tell me.
Google tells me the Columbus Matrix is a mid-range tubing, but can't find anything on the Rossin.. It has got a low-end gruppo so I don't think it's anything that special, also, the chrome on the fork/stays have some surface rust, that might clean up.

unless collecting bikes, just have bikes that fit you and are fit for their respective purposes

I don't know if I would call it collecting what I have... I at first I had a black steel trackbike I used for everything, then the pound was low (I live in Denmark) and Planet X had an offer on their carbon trackbike.. I got one to use for good weather riding to work, then I had an offer I couldn't refuse - The Rigi Bici-Corta.. that one is a bit of a collectors thing since it's really special, it is not by any means original though.. Then (THE SAME WEEK) my girlfriend suddenly thought that I should have a Faggin track-frame as a birthday presant..

I am going to take up track racing/training this winter, unless the track at Ballerup/Copenhagen is full already... So that Faggin just might be build up with tubulars and put to some good use there.. And the Planet X as well when I get some experience on the track.

I feel like this that I have bikes I like to ride for fun (PlanetX, RiGi, the tallbike, the lo-pro), and bikes I need to have in order to go to work/training/races..

I have;
2 Bmx's
1 Geared road bike
1 Fixed
1 Mountain bike
1 Shopper

and more frames and parts than i will ever know what to do with.

what about the bike for getting the sunday paper on

essential non ?

thats one of those trick of the eyes photos

the blokes are 200m away the bike is tiny

mitre tester can you collate all the new information into a definitive list that we can then pick at again

I've been considering this recently, and I don't know.

1. I'd keep my fixie-wixie
   
2. and my new audax affair
   
3. eventually it'd be fun to own a dura-ace equipped racing bike
   
4. and probably a rigid or hardtail singlespeed mountain bike
   
5. and an all-singing, all-dancing full bouncer of some kind
   
   

So... 5. But that's how many I'd like to own, not how many is 'right'. Personally I don't see the problem; They'd still take up less space than a car.

oh, and a shitheap pub bike that just will not get stolen.

I'm getting closer to the dream of a pared-down and non-showy two – one geared, one fixed – though I'm not quite there yet. Fewer bikes = a deeper and more meaningful relationship with each. It might not be quite monogamy but if they do different stuff, it's close, right?

I'm getting closer to the dream of a pared-down and non-showy two – one geared, one fixed – though I'm not quite there yet. Fewer bikes = **a deeper and more meaningful relationship **with each. It might not be quite monogamy but if they do different stuff, it's close, right?

they are bikes FFS. Seek help. The purple princess agrees with me on this.

I've thinned out my frames and parts and am down to my three built bikes:

Polo
Pretty Fixed
Gears

That'll do for a while I think. Until I can afford a cargo bike.

cargo bikes, cargo bikes... the living nightmare.....

Cargo bikes are wicked!

After my misadventures in the rental van at the weekend I never want to drive ever again. So I'm going to need something to do the weekly food shop with in Amsterdam...

oh god stop saying cargo bikes, stop it stop it....

after the cull

1. POLO / everyday
   
2. geared
   
3. tall bike