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15/03/2009 9:35:42 PM
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Troy Collett
Posts 171
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just interested as to how many bikes people have as I`ve heard of some people having anything up to 5
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15/03/2009 10:15:09 PM
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cklfc
Posts 22
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one road and one mountain
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15/03/2009 10:35:38 PM
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Troy Collett
Posts 171
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yeah i`ve only got the 1 road bike
I know guys that have a training bike & a racing bike
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16/03/2009 4:07:50 AM
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Robert Rau
Posts 150
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Hi,
Due to bad behaviour of some motorists I keep a few spare bikes. the current list is a Giant TCR (which I use for group rides in the hills) as it is nice and light and accelerates well. I have 2 Vitus 992, one has Dura Ace 9 speed groupset (very nice aluminium bike which I last rode in the Amy Ride) and the other is the complete original Mavic SSC (this one is by far my favorite bike and ride this one to work everyday). I have another Diamond back Podium 3 in a box somewhere which is the spare I rode in the 2008 C2C after the original Vitus got flattened by a car. My wife thinks I have three bikes and has a good point in saying that I only have one bottom, but she doesnt know about the fourth bike. Wouldnt mind getting a cheap single speed bike which I could ride to the gym (as they no longer allow locking bikes in the foyer). Just dont know how to tell my wife
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16/03/2009 6:06:48 PM
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Jason Daniels
Posts 73
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one road one mtb one old dunga mtb for carting beer. So 3.
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16/03/2009 9:27:22 PM
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DanielS
Posts 21
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Four at the moment... main road bike, commuter road bike, track bike and mountain bike.
(Wouldn't mind another road bike and a TT bike and a touring bike and a cyclocross bike and a road fixie and a .....)
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28/03/2009 12:43:57 AM
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Corks
Posts 16
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Surely one above average bike is enough, depending on the number of k's you are clocking. you need to be optimising what you get out of your machine and chopping and changing machines to me makes no sense, and the aim is be working with something that is comfortable and feels like an extension of yourself. Roger federer walks on court with a bag of racquets but i bet you he pulls out the same one for every tournament ...
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28/03/2009 1:17:02 AM
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Robert Rau
Posts 150
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I got three bikes which I ride plus another spare in a box somewhere. I know other people who own more than a dozen. My wife believes I should only have one bike for one butt. I have a nice Giant TCR for those pack rides when you dont want to be left at the back or dropped at the traffic lights when everyone else accelerates away. I have a Vitus 992 with Mavic grouppo which is typically french and ride it everyday and everywhere I can even though it weighs over 9 kg but its a twenty year old bike. Lastly I have another Vitus 992 with 9 speed Dura Ace and weights about 8.5 kg and is perfect for rides on the flat over 45km/hr (makes a good time trial bike if I was into that sort of thing - mostlyI admire its anodised purple main tubes and chrome forks and rear stays. The one in the box is a diamond back carbon/ aluminium bike which I keep as a spare because there are alot of motorists out there ready to run me over....Not sure what I want to ride in the Aldgate 100 yet....
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28/03/2009 7:38:49 PM
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John Eden
Posts 4
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2 road bikes, both steel and lugged, 4 fixed gear steel bikes, 2 bmx, 1 track bike, 9 single speed mountain bikes. That's 18. I ride 4 of them.
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28/03/2009 8:35:31 PM
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Chris Wolff
Posts 12
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18 is impressive. I'm only at 5. 2 road bikes, one for commuting, one for playing in the weekends (sports car), 1 mountain bike for trail riding, 1 mountain bike with kids seat (family wagon) and an old steel hacky for the occasional commute or leaving locked at the train station. All but the steel one get a fair rotation.
The garage has been re christened the bike shed by the minister of finance. Not sure how to broach the subject of wanting a track bike next...
Next question is who's given their bikes names?
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28/03/2009 9:25:36 PM
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John Eden
Posts 4
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Only one of my bikes has a name now, the first fixie, which I named Black Betty, but the best name was given to a nice shiney red Cannondale mountain bike by my wife. She dubbed 'her' Camilla. Then she was traded in after a year for a younger model. The bike that is, not the wife.
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29/03/2009 5:34:42 PM
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Robert Rau
Posts 150
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Hi John,
Was that red number named Camilla Bowles?
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29/03/2009 9:38:08 PM
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John Eden
Posts 4
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Yes, that's the one. Do you know what happened to her?
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13/05/2009 6:26:06 PM
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bert heathwood
Posts 4
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18! I thought I was bad at 6-ish... 4 MTBS (two dual suspension XC rigs, one rigid mtb and a dirt jumper), a steel road bike and a full carbon roadie.
Deciding on whether next bike is cyclocross, a 29-er, or a danish balloon tyred city commuter.
Actually anyone want to buy a Cannondale Scalpel (2006 X-9/X-0 with Lefty DLR2) or Chase 3?
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15/06/2009 5:06:38 PM
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Jason Daniels
Posts 30
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After buying the missus a new MTB, our family has now 5 bikes... the two old dungas for shop and beer runs, our two MTBs and my Roadie which will get out on the park soon...
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