Seriously now, how many bikes do I actually need!!??

[Oldhippy]

One. Tour de fer belt and braces tourer. On road, off road, trailer, no trailer, loaded with panniers or not. Simple. Never going to enter a road race so not relevant.

 

[cyberknight]

Plenty of used stuff about!👍

I use 10 speed on summer bikes and 9spd on winter and touring bikes that way wheels etc are interchangeable.

i have one 8 speed commuter and two 10 speed , one 11 speed when i was gifted the bits .Like you say plenty of options but if you want new the cues is going to make things a bit more of a search .

 

[scotsbikester]

One. Tour de fer belt and braces tourer. On road, off road, trailer, no trailer, loaded with panniers or not. Simple. Never going to enter a road race so not relevant.

Thanks. Can I ask what frame size yours is, and what height you are?

 

[Oldhippy]

Just shy of 6ft, L size frame. This is it.

 

[Oldhippy]

It's also comfy, bomb proof, has dynamo lighting and puncture proof tyres. Not the lightest thing on the road but then I ride it and don't carry it about.

 

[Twizit]

Irrespective of the specifics of what an additional bike might be, isn't the answer to the original question in the title always "one more than I have, at any given moment"?

 

[Vantage]

I have Dura Ace bar end shifters with a Deore 3x9 MTB transmission.

I had 9 spd dura ace down tube shifters with a deore rear mech on my old tourer. Worked perfectly.

 

[Vantage]

Of course soon everything below 11 speed you own will be old tech shimano wise with Cues already on mtb and coming to road next year .
Great from the bike shop/ manufacturer point of view but not so good for anyone running them as cues is not backwards compatible and disc only .

Shimano as usual being deliberately bloody awkward.
I bought This cassette before I knew about the changes. There's an extra spacer at the back of the cassttee which pushes it off the end of the freehub and into the frame on my bike. I had to take the entire cassette to bits to make it fit. Pita.

 

[Jameshow]

Shimano as usual being deliberately bloody awkward.
I bought This cassette before I knew about the changes. There's an extra spacer at the back of the cassttee which pushes it off the end of the freehub and into the frame on my bike. I had to take the entire cassette to bits to make it fit. Pita.

Probably have to go to aftermarket cassettes for old Shimano 8-10 SPD standards.

 

[Vantage]

Probably have to go to aftermarket cassettes for old Shimano 8-10 SPD standards.

They're still doing old 9spd but the prices for anything over a 36t are astronomical.

 

[cyberknight]

Probably have to go to aftermarket cassettes for old Shimano 8-10 SPD standards.

I tend to use microshift cassettes that decathlon sell under their own branding .

 

[Punkawallah]

I’ve got The Bike, an ‘83 Dawes Galaxy for ‘out and about’, and the ’Rat Bike’ for work or tootling around- a ‘70s Dawes frame with bits from the Pit of Despair to make it work. Technically that’s one more than I’ve got backsides, so too many.
Funnily enough, I never find a problem with compatibility - if it goes between the drop outs, the Suntour VX will shift it :-)

 

[presta]

I had 9 spd dura ace down tube shifters with a deore rear mech on my old tourer. Worked perfectly.

As new, my Horizon came with 8 speed gears using an Acera rear derailleur and 8 speed bar end shifters. When the RD failed I replaced it with the Deore RD without changing anything else, it's compatible with either 8 or 9 speed because the cable pull ratio is the same. It was about a year later before I changed the whole shooting match to 9 speed after the gear lever broke and the BB was worn out.

 

[froze]

Don't let bike shops and other forums tell you that you bought into a dead bike, that's nonsense.

I have a bunch of bikes, my oldest is a 1977 Raleigh Competition GS, and I can find any part I would ever need for it on the internet, and so far, any part I've bought has been brand new except for the brakes, (actually those I did find new but didn't want to pay the price), and that bike is 47 years old! I just had to replace the 5 speed rear gears with a 6 speed, and got what's known as a corncob gear set, brand new, and in the box made by Suntour Winner Pro that works great with the all-Campy setup, in fact it now shifts better than the old Campy freewheel. A few years ago, I replaced the Campy GS derailleurs with 1976 to 1978 Campy Nuovo Record, got those brand new as well, and they were cheaper than buying 2024 Ultegra derailleurs!

There are a lot of internet stores that sell the older stuff, as well as on Ebay, there's even a place where I live that had a set of like new Campy brakes from the 1977 era, I put those on to replace the Weinmann Carrera brakes that didn't work real smoothly. I have bikes from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, never an issue to find parts for those either.