How Many Bikes Should A Cyclist Own?

[Mr Phoebus]

I've got six.
Today, I'll be mostly using the Brommie, which is number five.

 

[origamikev]

HI you sound almost as normal as me !!! Maybe i'm a little older than you or maybe your not quite there yet but your missing a bike in the bed room for comfort when you wake in the night and a folder so you can take it everywhere just incase

keep trying
Kevin

 

[Joe24]

I have 3. Fixed, road bike, folder.
Would love another fixed, a full carbon roadie, a tourer, and then would probably want a road bike to use in winter when i dont want to be out on the fixed.
I just need more bikes, but its tight having the ones i have now

 

[Kirstie]

I have 5 and want another - a folder. Looking at airnimal or brompton on the bike to work scheme next year.
The current 5 are:
carbon roadie
853 tourer
mtb hardtail
mtb 5" FS trail bike
mtb 8" travel DH bike

 

[Joe]

I've got 3

Carbon road bike (which gets ridden all year round)
Steel tourer
Fixed

I want more!

 

[mickle]

I've recently agreed to sell my Rocky Mountain Vertex and am regretting it already.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I want more!

Large amounts don't grow on trees
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

I'd say 3 is sensible.

Summer speed machine
Winter hack
Tourer

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Talking to that smashing chap Gary Blackett at the Mavic Service Centre about this very subject the other day. His French colleagues can't understand the concept of a 'winter' bike. Just use the 'summer' bike, and if it needs new parts/repairs then get on with it. Why suffer the discomfort of riding a second (or third or forth) choice machine. What's the point?

The most sensible post so far. I've never got the "winter bike" thing either.

 

[yello]

I have 5 but I think France has injected me with some of what Proto was talking about and I am beginning to think 'why?'. The Bianchi would be first, and the most logical, for the chop - it's essentially a summer bike. Then maybe the MTB. The remaining three, I would keep. One was my brother's, his old MTB that I've converted for touring and it's more of sentimental value than anything else though I used it when I was commuting, and for general purpose stuff like popping down to the shops etc. Then there's my fixed, which I love to bits (bang for buck, it's my favourite) and my audax bike.

But how many bikes does a cyclist "need"??? One, to be strictly correct.

 

[simoncc]

Five bikes are quite sufficient, unless you like off road biking in which case you need a couple of MTBs too

 

[postman]

Three.I am trying to find a reason to buy a decent road bike early next year.Only have two at the mo.

 

[ACS]

I have 3
531c road bike- 1990
Sirrus - 2006
MTB - made up of bits & cast offs winterised for the road.
Would like a Dawes Galaxy

Mudguards = less cow sh1t up your back. Best invention ever

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The most sensible post so far. I've never got the "winter bike" thing either.

Me neither - but my all-year bike of choice isn't a 'sensible' tourer, but my alu-carbon racer. I just prefer riding it to anything else. I also have have an old steel Kaffenback, my first proper road bike, which I then started to think of as a 'winter' bike (or occasional light tourer) but that hardly gets ridden these days... a Brompton (which does the job when I need to go place by train), and a very nice FS XC MTB frame - which at the moment doesn't get ridden at all, but will do when my life has settled down again from the middle of next year, though I may be canoeing and XC skiing as much as cycling from then on... however I do want to build up a real 'ice bike'. Grr!

 

[origamikev]

PLEASE O PLEASE, Lets keep this descent all sorts of people read this so no more of the "S" word thank you. If folks want to be "sensible" there is a time and place but thank god I've not found it.

Many people ride the same path no two people have the same ride