How many bikes is it right to own?

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

In at 23 & 24

Audax is for weirdoes though, I'm not sure I would admit to owning one.

and unicycle...?

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

weirdoes

Quayle fail

Nah, didn't come up in my spell check thingy, which means I actually spelled something right.

Unlike two of the words above.

Nah, didn't come up in my spell check thingy

Your 'spell check thingy' seems to be siding with the minority on this issue. Google has the ratio of hits at about 11:1 for weirdos:weirdoes

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.
ah you need 96er and 69er (childish giggle) hmm what else. . . have we covered tall bikes?

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

Actually I saw a picture of someone making 2 small seat for it in flickr and it look pretty good;

and someone made a wooden one;

and those who don't have children;

i reckon you have a "weirdo"
so more than one of them is "weirdos".

the extra "e" is extraneous. google democracy is wrong.

i have as many bikes as stars in the sky.

In the absence of domestic constraints, the total number will depend on which types of riding you do. For example, if you ride exclusively for the purpose of track racing you probably only need five bikes:

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

Not everybody is so narrowly focused, though, so you might need to add

6: Road race bike
7: Road TT bike

and then there's the winter to think about

8: CX bike
9: Second CX bike for swaps

but if you're going to ride CX, you might as well do some MTB races for skills improvement

10: XC Race MTB
11: XC Training MTB

That was fun, but now there are other challenges opening up

12: Full-Sus enduro bike
13: SS MTB

And you SS MTB is nice, but it's not quite right on the local six pack, so

14: Dirt jump bike

And you did OK in the MTB class at the BMX track, but those little wheeled bikes seem to be even better

15: BMX race bike
16: BMX jump bike

but your BMX jump bike is good on the stairs and rails, but there are things in the urban landscape you could session if you only had a

17: 20" trials bike

which is all very well, but that hippity hoppity stuff doesn't really flow, so it's not helping you MTB riding as much as it should, so maybe what you need is

18: 26" trials bike

Now that you're going out and playing on natural stuff, picking lines that flow together, perhaps you need to up the ante by hitting them faster

19: Freeride bike

Of course, if you're going to go fast, you have to go faster than everybody else, which means racing

20: DH race bike

and there's no pointing driving all that way to races and then not competing in all the races

21: BSX/4X bike

Obviously, I've pared the collection down to the bare essentials by sticking to sports use and eliminating spares except for CX. Some people also think they are missing out on the full experience if they don't also have a tandem or three

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But for personal and spousal justification, I'm willing to be more general with my bike usuage:

1) Workhouse to transport the kids to nusery, carry shopping etc.
2) fixed road for short fast rides;
3) Geared road for longer (hillier) rides;
4) Singlespeed MTN bike for short offroad rides; and
5) Geared full sus MTN for longer or more technical offroad rides.

I only own 2.5 of these so far, but I'm getting there. The two bikes not on the list (as I currently have no excuse to own) that I lust over, are a flash TT bike and a hardcore DH bike.

i got given a unicycle by a random, 82 year old, Japanese gentleman in Tokyo yesterday..it was "sleeping in garage". Fetched it back as hand luggage! Does this raise my count by 0.5?

I personaly would'nt class a 29er as a separate bike type, it still falls under the other sections. In the same way that I would'nt class a carbon bike separatly. Thats not to say that you should'nt own a 29er XC and a 26er xc though. In the same way that you may wish to own both a carbon and a steel road bike.

When looking into 29er frames I read a review buy a guy who owned a one9 (Scandium, 29er hardtail, singlespeed) and a sir9 (steel, 29er, hardtail, singlespeed, same geo). I can totally see why, but I'd never get that one past the mrs.

Mitre tester, you have missed a cargo bike for the shopping and a beater for everyday use.

Oh and a Brompton for fancy dress parties.

Surely everyone should own a full sus folder.

I'd geniunely like one for taking on holiday.

i reckon you have a "weirdo"
so more than one of them is "weirdos".

the extra "e" is extraneous. google democracy is wrong.

Google democracy agrees with you, and so do I. Math fail?

Mitre tester, you have missed a cargo bike for the shopping and a beater for everyday use.

22 & 27

I'm going to edit my first list to include the stuff in my second, as nobody seems to be able to integrate them in their head!

At the moment I just have 2 bikes my SS Cannondale Leftie and Oval Teardrop TT framed only God know's who it is made by bike, might look at getting a track bike as well and another project bike but something odd like a Dahon Jack to convert to a single speed. The illness is taking hold ;o))

The illness is taking hold ;o))

I keep telling ya to get that rash checked out.

I keep telling ya to get that rash checked out.

I keep telling you not to put in your mouth.

I keep telling you not to put in your mouth.
HAHA, quickvit just got owned!

22 & 27

I'm going to edit my first list to include the stuff in my second, as nobody seems to be able to integrate them in their head!
lol, im about the only one who can see :-P

I personaly would'nt class a 29er as a separate bike type, it still falls under the other sections.

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.

Oh, and apostrophe placement fail, as this is a grammar/spelling thread too.

lol this thread is gold