How many bikes is it right to own?

8,289,756

8,289,756

+1

+-0.0023

8,289,756

is that the number of pieces the 'Rubble' is in?

The Rubble owns all other bikes. Speak ill of the Rubble at your own peril. The Rubble takes not prisoners, merely crushes bodies. The Rubble is not of this world. The Rubble wants not peace.

oh and mitre teaser missed out moultons. . . you need a small wheeled full sus made in england for commuting and showing you have 10 k to spend on random shizzle :D

There was so much that I missed out, even allowing that I considered touring bikes and cargo bikes in addition to those I mentioned. Discounting things with more than one seat, or some number of wheels other than two,

1: Race sprint bike
2: Race pursuit bike
3: Track training bike
4: Summer road bike (can also be used on the rollers for warm ups)
5: Winter road bike
6: Road race bike
7: Road TT bike
8: CX bike
9: Second CX bike for swaps
10: XC Race MTB
11: XC Training MTB
12: Full-Sus enduro bike
13: SS MTB
14: Dirt jump bike
15: BMX race bike
16: BMX jump bike
17: 20" trials bike
18: 26" trials bike
19: Freeride bike
20: DH race bike
21: BSX/4X bike
22: shopping bike, probably a flat bar porteur
23: touring bike (expedition)
24: touring bike (audax)
25: recumbulent
26: polo bike
27: some sort of cargo bike
28: grass track bike
29: speedway bike
30: fixed road bike
31: cycle-ball bike
32: acrobatic bike
33: stayer bike
34: 6-day/madison bike
35: fixed TT bike
36: hill climb bike (fixed)
37: hill climb bike (geared)
38: spring classics bike
39: medium gear fixed TT bike
40: "Old Skool" legal TT bike
41: roller racing bike
42: NJS keirin bike, but only if you qualify

That's the basic practical necessities covered, after that you're really just adding things which replicate function in more aesthetically pleasing ways.

• that bike who lives round the corner on my estate
  

OH and I have a 'Excel' mtb bike, and a Honda 50cc Moped (It's a bike cos it has pedals as well :P)

Mitre, don't forget Cycle Ball too;

Harry Potter would look well buff on that one

C'mon Mitre, you can squeeze out at least another 5 for bmxers, one for flatland, one for vert riding, one for dirt trail jumping, one for street and one for skatepark

bikes are for riding, so as many as you actually use.....any more and you are just a collector and may as well satisfy your hoarding desires with stamps or thimbles or summink.

I would love to buy a cargo bike to share amoungst our neighbors on Shacklewell Lane. There are two major bike houses, and a cheap cargo bike (Kona) is one about 600, I think.

there's a guy near me with one of them Konas...nice bike.

Kona UTE: http://www.singletrackbikes.co.uk/product/3321/Kona_Ute_Urban_Bike

Mitre, don't forget Cycle Ball too;

Already there at #31

C'mon Mitre, you can squeeze out at least another 5 for bmxers, one for flatland, one for vert riding, one for dirt trail jumping, one for street and one for skatepark

I'm not enough of an expert to know how many truly different BMX bikes there are, but I had a race bike and a dirt jump bike at 15 & 16, and naively assumed I could ride street/skate park/half pipe on the dirt jump bike, although I had toyed with a separate entry for flatland. I'm surprised that nobody has insisted on adding a 29er to the collection yet.

I knew it was time to move when I needed to climb over the carbon Litespeed to get in the bath.

Kona UTE: http://www.singletrackbikes.co.uk/product/3321/Kona_Ute_Urban_Bike

yes! they are pretty cheap right now at £500-550, bargain for an utility bicycle.

look like a great alternative to the Surly and the Xtracycles.

you also missed off flatland bmx, and brakless street bmx

and unicycle...?

I'm not enough of an expert to know how many truly different BMX bikes there are, but I had a race bike and a dirt jump bike at 15 & 16, and naively assumed I could ride street/skate park/half pipe on the dirt jump bike, although I had toyed with a separate entry for flatland. I'm surprised that nobody has insisted on adding a 29er to the collection yet.

Really you also missed of and Audax bike for those long training rides and Audax events, and a touring bike for the summer holidays.

yes! they are pretty cheap right now at £500-550, bargain for an utility bicycle.

look like a great alternative to the Surly and the Xtracycles.

Theres a handyman company in north london that runs a fleet of these with awesome mounted toolboxes and racks for carrying pipe/coving etc. Can't remember what the firm is called but its a nice concept. They're always locked with fag chains and d's so the boss clearly knows the score.

I want one.

I'm surprised that nobody has insisted on adding a 29er to the collection yet.

Because they are pointless.
Another solution to a problem that never existed.

Kona UTE: http://www.singletrackbikes.co.uk/product/3321/Kona_Ute_Urban_Bike

If anyone knows of specific kirrdi seats or how to attach a normal kiddie seat to one of these...would be grateful!

Because they are pointless.
Another solution to a problem that never existed.

Oooh! handbags!

If anyone knows of specific kirrdi seats or how to attach a normal kiddie seat to one of these...would be grateful!

I think bike fix stoke these so might be worth a chat to them.