Your fantasy bike shed / bucket list

[Dogtrousers]

OK seeing that this is total fantasy, I might get a recumbent. I don't know anything about them, so I don't know what sort.

 

[Chislenko]

After how poor I have been lately on any of my bikes I fear my next one may well have a motor and a battery on it😟

Not somewhere I want to go too soon but the body is telling me otherwise!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I haven't really got a Fantasy Bucket - maybe a nice silver galvanised one, perhaps?😊

 

[iandg]

I don't need another bike. I've got 6 and currently only 2 are getting regular use. These are my Surly Long Haul Trucker and Surly Cross-Check. Both with flat bars and used for road and off-road respectively.

I also have a Genesis Equilibrium (which I used to use for training, club rides and audax) and a 1970s Raleigh Professional (fixed wheel). Both are currently stripped down because health issues make drops uncomfortable.

A 631 Henry Burton (Aravis) Audax/Tourer is currently sporting riser bars and I use it as a utility bike. This is going to get the dyno-hub wheel and lights from my audax bike fitted and I'm going to pass it on to one of my lads for commuting across Edinburgh.

There's also a stripped down 1990s Trek MTB in the shed. Going to build this up into a SS shopping/utility bike to replace the HB that I'm passing on.

Don't know when I'll be well enough to ride the Genesis or Raleigh again. I have parts in the shed to convert the Raleigh to a retro geared bike should I be fit enough for retro festivals in the future.

If I won the lottery/had a windfall I would, however, get myself a Dursley Pedersen - just because

 

[vickster]

Since getting my 🦄 I’m good for frames. I’m getting some groupset fettling done, could do with getting the narrower bars and fatter tyres fitted on the (partial infrequent) commuter and then I think I’m sorted with the current 5

 

[Moon bunny]

Minty the Aurora does everything I want a bike to do.

 

[GuyBoden]

Both Hope Bikes.
https://www.hopetechhb.com/bikes

 

[Paulus]

I just about have all the bikes I need. 8 in total.
3 tourers,, 2 Dawes Galaxys, one my original from 1975, the other new in 1996.
1 Raleigh Royal, saved from the skip and rebuilt this year..
1 Audax, Dawes
1 1970's Falcon
2 Condors, Italia and a Classico,
1 Brompton.
They all get used in a kind of rotation, depending on the weather.
They tick all my boxes.

 

[FishFright]

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Both Hope Bikes.
https://www.hopetechhb.com/bikes

That's how a wish list is done .

 

[Dogtrousers]

Both Hope Bikes.
https://www.hopetechhb.com/bikes

What's going on here?

 

[FishFright]

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I high pivot pint give better suspension kinematics but affects pedalling adversely , this solves that problem. Ideal for longer travel bikes which need to pedalled uphill at a reasonable rate, eg Enduro racing.

 

[figbat]

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It helps the chain to avoid the chainstay without needing a whacky offset chainring. Plus it helps with chain length changes as the swing arm move up and down.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I high pivot pint give better suspension kinematics but affects pedalling adversely , this solves that problem. Ideal for longer travel bikes which need to pedalled uphill at a reasonable rate, eg Enduro racing.

It reminds me of those early 20th century weird designs they came up with when they couldn't quite figure out what was best and had odd chain routing, like retro-direct drives.

 

[biggs682]

I am disappointed that nobody has mentioned having a tandem in the garage bucket list, ours comes out 3 or 4 times a year and is always enjoyed by both of us.

 

[simongt]

I'm perfectly happy with my '92 Super Galaxy, '81 Dawes Fox and 2014 Brompton M3. Between them, they do all I could need with bikes.
However, space allowing; which we don't have and money no object, I would add a Paris Galibier and, if I could find someone who could build one for me, a Thanet Silverlight.