How many bicycles do you own ?

[Richard A Thackeray]

1994 Dyna-Tech 755Ti
2008(?) Pinnacle Cyclo-Cross (the 'Evans Cycles own brand)
2010 Ridley Orion
2010 Ribble 'Winter' (one of the blue/7005 aluminium frames, that are a damned sight better quality/handling than the price ought to allow!)
2015 Ribble Gran-Fondo
2022 Spa Cycles 'Aubisque' (replaced a Ribble CGR, that cracked, the first model)

Most of them featured 'here' ('Yellow' was given away a few years ago)

Only the 'Aubisque' is regularly ridden; my 'work-bike', that also gets some rides in some very muddy woods!

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

7, I think.

Road bike: Ribble CGR Ti

Winter road bike (was a gravel bike): Felt Broam 30

Fixed gear road bike: Specialized Langster (not yet ridden - needs the front brake sorting; possibly gearing down a bit and I haven't decided whether or not the tyres I've jammed onto it are too wide)

Slow hybrid: Trek District 4 Stagger

Faster hybrid: Trek FX 7.2 (bought for a song but it is a project; needs a good clean and some new parts)

MTB: Specialized Hard Rock (bought from a Cyclechatter)

Folder: Carrera Intercity (not yet ridden - needs a jolly good clean and a service)

 

[lostinthought]

Nominally*, I have two:


A Roberts Master Pro road bike, built for me in 2004 (20 years old this year!), from Columbus El OS tubeset. The frame, stem, hubs, and spokes are original. Though I’ve resprayed it. Fairly badly. A pro job may be due soon, perhaps when it comes of age in a year. Love this bike.

A Roberts Audax, courtesy of my late father, built for him around 2002 or so from some bespoke Columbus combination. I coerced him into it, alarmed by the kind of carbon race monstrosity that the local bike shop were trying to talk this already elderly-ish gentleman into. He adored it (phew). And then, I bought my own a couple of years later (see above). I’ve turned this bike into my occasional commuter. I love it.

If I ever decided to buy a new bike frame I’ll go straight to Adrian Parry at Six Four frameworks and ask him to make it for me. He is an ex-Roberts master frame builder, possibly made my existing bikes, and they’ve served me well so far.

*Still hanging from the rafters in a garage is the frame of my old Nigel Dean 531C road bike frame, upon which this gangly youth was dropped from pitch-black evening club runs, achieved average results in local TT’s, and from which I was eventually knocked off by a van turning left to finish an entertaining if fruitless summer as a London bicycle courier. Love the bent wonky old thing.

*Also in those rafters is an interesting curiosity of a silver-soldered mountain bike frame from the early 90’s, made from Columbus tubing by a local builder with an imperfect reputation, but which served me well. I rode the Cap D’Ail downhill course on it one year last millennium -very slowly- and debonded a PACE RC35 fork dropout, which they sympathetically repaired for free. Frame survived though. Must do something with it one day. Love it.

So it appears I have four bikes, but two of them don’t work

 

[sevenfourate]

Today may (Temporarily) see me one bike down in the Fleet. Is the equation: N-1 a known thing around these parts ? Am i still allowed here ?

 

[Gunk]

Today may (Temporarily) see me one bike down in the Fleet. Is the equation: N-1 a known thing around these parts ? Am i still allowed here ?

Have you sold the Carrera?

 

[sevenfourate]

Have you sold the Carrera?

Well; not really sold it. Just swapped it for some cycling tokens 🤣🤣

 

[Gunk]

Well; not really sold it. Just swapped it for some cycling tokens 🤣🤣

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I love a bit of folding, feels like free money