How many bikes do you have? - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

07-23-2003, 05:55 PM

Its always nice to have 1 - but is 2 or 3 better?

07-23-2003, 07:01 PM

I've got 2. A hybrid and a hybrid...well the second hybrid leans more
toward a road bike. I think I could fit another one into my apartment. I'd
like to own a real road bike, keep my better roadlike hybrid and trade in my
cheap hybrid for a mtn. bike.

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07-23-2003, 07:10 PM

4. A road bike, a hybrid, a mountain bike and a hybrid for my wife. I ride
every one of them every week.

Fred

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07-23-2003, 08:22 PM

"Fred" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> brightened my day with his incisive wit
when in news:M6ITa.222$[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] he conjectured
that:

> 4. A road bike, a hybrid, a mountain bike and a hybrid for my wife.
> I ride every one of them every week.
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> Fred
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5 rides a week? You have a lucky wife.

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Walter Mitty.

07-23-2003, 08:23 PM

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:55:04 GMT, MisNomer <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> from Shaw
Residential Internet wrote:

>Its always nice to have 1 - but is 2 or 3 better?

Yes. The more the merrier. I'm currently working on a way to finagle a fourth --
a track bike -- from my wife. A big problem is there is no velodrome here.

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07-23-2003, 09:14 PM

I currently have one too many, I think, at three.

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07-23-2003, 11:57 PM

I have three, and two being rebuilt.

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07-24-2003, 12:58 AM

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:55:04 GMT,
<[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>, MisNomer
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>Its always nice to have 1 - but is 2 or 3 better?
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Logically, four bikes are the absolute minimum.

Four directions, four seasons, four elements.

Road - This can be a touring, audax or racing bike.
Street - For utility or commuter cycling.
Dirt - BMX, downhill, trails, XC etc.
Track - This can be a track bike if you live near a velodrome or just
a wild card bike that might be your chopper, penny farthing replica,
recumbent or other whacked out bike all bike whackos must have.

I've eleven and now a unicycle too.
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zk

07-24-2003, 02:23 AM

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Zoot Katz <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

> or just
>a wild card bike that might be your chopper, penny farthing replica,
>recumbent or other whacked out bike all bike whackos must have.

Which are most appropriate to ride in your local Critical Mass, which is
tomorrow!

Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

07-24-2003, 05:47 AM

MisNomer wrote:

> Its always nice to have 1 - but is 2 or 3 better?

Without going into too much detail about 19 bikes they are...

Good FS off road bike
Cheap FS off road bike
Good hardtail
Cheap hardtail
Urban assault hardtail
Time trial
Training
Commuting
Folding
Trials
Touring
Shopping
Recumbent
Folding
Going down the pub bike
Experimental bike
Singlespeed fixie
Offroad singlespeed
The bike I least mind getting stolen also known as the bike that gets
all the worn out or broken-and-bodged components. It currently has 1"
pedla to ground clearance, so anyone riding off on it would only get to
the first corner.

Don't know if these count, but:
2 unicycles (20" and 2")
Front wheel + handlebars for unicycle.

Don't forget surgery to the house to store this lot.

The experimental bike gets the components I didn't like in their
original configuration added to it in not necessarily conventional ways,
to see what can be made to work.

They don't all get ridden every week, but they do every year.

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Jim Price

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