How many bicycles do you own ?

[Jameshow]

I have just finished removing the pedals from them all and turning the handlebars ready for the removal men. Brompton not shown in photo.



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Are you moving to Somerset by any chance?

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

In terms of bikes able to instantly use properly, two, an upright road bike (Cube Attain GTC Disc 2016) and hybrid (Voodoo Marasa).

Very old Alfine hybrid in bits, plus a fatbike needing a (sheared through driveside pedal thread) new crank and cassette gear cable replaced, getting dusty and rusty in the shed.

Back pondering an ebike purchase after hiring one last week at Longleat Center Parcs, to make it easier to do a 30+ mile loop up to around Old Winchester Hill with long covid fatigue and almost 20Kg of excess weight compared to summer '22.

 

[rogerzilla]

Are you moving to Somerset by any chance?

No, Shropshire. There is a flat bit for the three fixies.

 

[Profpointy]

3

Thorn Nomad semi-off-road tourer. This was my only bike for years, replacing the old 10 speed (upgraded to 15 speed) "racer" I'd had from my student days. Need to get it back in working order as I was half way into a "shimergo" upgrade, prompted by my breaking on of the bar-end shifters during "routine" maintenance. To be honest I never entirely liked the bike, as it is heavy, and stronger than it needs to be for my usage. Whilst I sometimes go off-road (tracks rather than mountain biking) and a might tour, but I am very unlikely to do both at once !

Decade later bought a Condor Fixie on the cycle-to-work scheme. It had "stupid buy" all over it as I was an unfit middle aged guy in a hilly city, and I'd only once before had a go on a fixie decades before, but had always wanted one. By the time I'd added a Ti rack and Brooks saddle plus other niceties it was a grand rather than the £600 or £700 I'd envisaged. Anyhow I love it and rode it every day to work for maybe 10 years, plus reasonable days out on occasion

Subsequently was working away a lot so got a secondhand Brompton to get to and from the station / hotel / office, however the requirement disappeared before it had much use as we started working remotely during covid, and I subsequently packed in work entirely. Like the Thorn it is languishing unridden because of a half-finished brake upgrade; it having come with the very poor earlier pattern brake levers.

I need to fix up the Brompton and sell it, and keep the other two. If we move to the Lakes in the next year or two, I'll have to decide whether to keep the Condor as a fixie or turn it into a geared audax type machine, in which case I'll sell the Thorn (and finish fixing it), unless I do find myself doing a lot of rough tracks.

 

[Illaveago]

I have just finished removing the pedals from them all and turning the handlebars ready for the removal men. Brompton not shown in photo.



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I hope they treat them well.

 

[Illaveago]

I seem to acquire some of my bikes because I just can't let them go for scrap. It seems a waste of a perfectly good bike. A couple of my bikes were taken on as a challenge to repair them and get them going again. One was found fly tipped so I have helped clean up the environment and managed to get a fire damaged bike riding again. It was a challenge but I am happy with the result. I bought a couple of modern style bikes to see what all the fuss was about with the small sloping frames. I think I might have finally accepted them but still prefer my old classic steel racers.

 

[FrankCrank]

Got seven bikes here in Reading, the shed is looking a bit rammed.
Gotta shift a couple, most likely give them to the volunteer run Reading Bike Kitchen, they can service them and pass to new owners.
Both would make ideal pub bikes, but then again that description can be applied to all mine

 

[Punkawallah]

I seem to acquire some of my bikes because I just can't let them go for scrap. It seems a waste of a perfectly good bike. A couple of my bikes were taken on as a challenge to repair them and get them going again. One was found fly tipped so I have helped clean up the environment and managed to get a fire damaged bike riding again. It was a challenge but I am happy with the result. I bought a couple of modern style bikes to see what all the fuss was about with the small sloping frames. I think I might have finally accepted them but still prefer my old classic steel racers.

Agreed. So saying, in the course of ‘test riding’ repairs, I have found Giant to be a nice ride.

 

[biking_fox]

2 1/2

Thorn Raven Sport - rohloff touring/commuting wonder bike
SS steel frame light joy to ride

and the half

Is the front of a Helios e-tandem, of which the back belongs to my wife.

 

[Illaveago]

Agreed. So saying, in the course of ‘test riding’ repairs, I have found Giant to be a nice ride.

I have a couple of Orbits which have turned out to be very good.

 

[biggs682]

Two less than last week

 

[sevenfourate]

Two less than last week

Well done on making space for the new incoming arrivals. Look forward to the pics 🤣

 

[biggs682]

Well done on making space for the new incoming arrivals. Look forward to the pics 🤣

There's a rather nice one that has been dangled in front of me that I am awaiting the invite to go and see it