How many bikes in your household?
zebra67
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This is a thread for saddos (like me 
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Would anyone like to compare?
It's getting rather crowded in the garage again, we have:
(2) My Hybrid, road bike
(4) Husband road bike, touring bike (offroad, too), TT bike, Track bike
(1) Childback tandem
(2) Son1 BMX, roadbike
(2) Daughter road bike, BMX racing bike
(2) Destined for carboot 2 little girl bikes
(2) Son2 Islabike, Action-man bike
(1) Halford's MTB for age 6-9
(1) Green bike with stabs for Son3 when he's bigger
That's only 17 bikes, or 3 each, but 2 destined for carboot, so only 2.5 each, right? So what if one of us is only big enough to ride a tricycle (Son3 has 2, one in pink, one in blue).
How many bikes have you got?
).Would anyone like to compare?
It's getting rather crowded in the garage again, we have:
(2) My Hybrid, road bike
(4) Husband road bike, touring bike (offroad, too), TT bike, Track bike
(1) Childback tandem
(2) Son1 BMX, roadbike
(2) Daughter road bike, BMX racing bike
(2) Destined for carboot 2 little girl bikes
(2) Son2 Islabike, Action-man bike
(1) Halford's MTB for age 6-9
(1) Green bike with stabs for Son3 when he's bigger
That's only 17 bikes, or 3 each, but 2 destined for carboot, so only 2.5 each, right? So what if one of us is only big enough to ride a tricycle (Son3 has 2, one in pink, one in blue).
How many bikes have you got?
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My Ribble MTB
My Specialized Allez Comp 'nearly' road bike
(+Bianchi Road Bike in the next couple of months)
Eldest Sons Land Rover MTB
Eldest Sons Tange framed road bike
Youngest Sons Claude Butler MTB
Youngest sons old MTB
Wifes scaffold tube framed MTB with cast iron forks, jeez its heavy.
Will
www.ExmoorCentre.co.uk - cheap remote bunkhouse accomodation.
So 9 if the tag-along counts but the trike doesn't. Won't be long before we hit double figures though - and could get silly if the boys start demanding multiple bikes each...
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Me:
Giant Anthem X4 - 2010 MTB
GT Timberline - 1991 knocking about
Gazelle Tour de l'Avenir - 1986 unused road bike
Wife:
Specialized Expedition - hybrid
Marin Muirwoods 1995 (being rebuilt as a loaner)
Raleigh shopper (now passed on to a new home)
Son 1:
Islabikes Beinn 26 S
Son 2:
Islabikes Beinn 24
Trek MT60 (to be sold... replaced by Islabike)
Ridgeback MX16 (old bike - now his 'BMX')
Luckily we have a big garage, so it is not noticeably overcrowded. 17 must look like a bike shop though
Giant Anthem X4 (2010) GT Avalanche 1.0 (2010)
Kingley Vale and QECP Trail Collective - QECP Trail Building
Housemate a (3) mtb, rat road bike, nice road bike
Housemate b (2) mtb, road bike
Housemate c (2) bso, road bike
Carbon 456
456 lefty
Pompino
White Inbred
1. Bianchi 928 C2C
2. Wilier Cento 100th Anniversary Edition
3. Ritchey Break-away Ti
4. Look 586 Pro Team
5. De Rosa Planet
6. Vitus 992 Ovoid
7. Cervelo P2C
8. Alan
9. Sakae Litage
10. Raleigh Pursuit
11. Argon 18 Cobalt
12. Colnago Super Mexico
13. Colnago Brain
14. Masi Speciale Fixed
15. Trek Fuel EX
16. Scott Scale RC
17. Scott Spark Jr (elder son)
18. Ben 10 kid's bike (younger son)
I think that's everything ...
Well, we recently had some rationalisation here. Partially because we didn't have the room. Partially to fund other bikes.
ME.
2010 Masi Speciale CX (I couldn't resist EOFYS, and sold my Felt F80 to fund it)
2009 Masi Soulville 3 (my main commuter)
1988 (?) Graecross Pathfinder - now a family frankenbeast
HER
2009 Masi Soulville 7 Mixte (I loved mine so much, I suggested a test ride. Lost my dually to fund it, as she did her old/refurbed 70s step-thru, but she now commutes 3-4 days a week, so was worthwhile).
2004 Avanti Vitale Comp
DEPENDS
2007 CargoCycles.com.au CargoBike
2004 Dahon Vitesse D7
THING 1
ByK E-350 (coz we don't have IslaBikes here - good locally designed alternative)
Aldi RunBike
THING 2
Aldi RunBike currently intoddle-bike mode.
2. Specialized Tricross
3. Trek 5900 roadie
4. Trek 5500 TT special
5. Cannondale tourer
5. Raleigh comp hack bike
6. Brompton S2-LX folder
7. Dawes Kickback 2 tandem (does this count as one or two bikes?)
8. Giant OCR hack
9. Trek 1400 training bike
10. Pace RC200 front susp mtb
11. Trek mtb (hers)
12. Peugeot child mtb
13. Eldest daughter's bike
14. Elder son's bike
15. younger son's Raleigh Max
16. younger daughter's balance bike
That's about 2.5 each on average. However it works out pretty much as "10 for me; 1 each for everyone else".
Road: 95 Trek 5500 -Look 695 Aerolight eTap - Boardman TTe eTap
Offroad: Pace RC200 - Dawes Kickback 2 tandem - Tricross - Boardman CXR9.8 - Ridley x-fire
2. Kona Hahanna (1997) in road trim.
3. Raleigh Record Sprint 'project bike' inherited from a friend. Needs fettling.
4. Apollo lead-weighted ATB with road tyres & panniers for Mrs E.
5. Islabikes Beinn 20
6. Islabikes Cnoc 14
7. Raleigh Krush 20" (s/h, recently acquired for daughter too big for Cnoc)
8. Apollo 12" girls bike
All but one are in GWO. The Cnoc will go when daughter is happy riding the Krush. The 12" bike, while perfectly serviceable, is worth very little.
I have been mulling a C2W bike to add to the stable, but the recent change/clarification by HMRC means the potential saving is considerably less now. Still hanker after another road bike and keep the SCR as a hack.
1. Parkpre Pro Elite (mine)
2. Trek 9600 (mine)
3. Saracen Helix (mine)
4. Specialized Allez Elite (mine)
5. Scott Sub 30 (mine)
6. Saracen step thru thingy (wifes)
7. Trek 9600 (wifes)
8. Trek tag-a-long (Attaches to mine)
9. Generic 24" Wheeled MTB (sons)
10. Crappy Action man thing (sons)
Me & my son have ridden all of ours in the last month and my wife all hers in the last decade so I guess its fair to say they are used frequently?
Condor Acciaio (my pride and joy and main bike for commuting and weekends)
Condor Tour de France fixie (other pride and joy, just for fun and to look at ...)
Dawes Super Galaxy (touring, shopping, etc)
Brompton (mainly for the Eurostar)
Spec Hard Rock (mine)
Spec Rockhopper (wife's)
Bianchi road bike (wife's)
Pashley Princess (wife's)
Orbit Libra tandem
Luath 26 (10 year old)
Beinn 26 (8 year old)
2 * Scott 20" mountain bikes (grown out of now)
Scott 16" mountain bike (ditto)
Kettler 12" (?) (ditto)
The Pashley and Bianchi will go shortly to be replaced by a good tourer do-it-all for my wife, prob a Condor Heritage.
New kid due in a couple of months so adding a Cougar trailer, Extrawheel and then doubtless other bikes as the brood grows.
I must print this thread off and show it to my wife!
Giant Anthem X4 (2010) GT Avalanche 1.0 (2010)
Kingley Vale and QECP Trail Collective - QECP Trail Building
And I want to buy 8yo an Isla Beinn 24 and 10yo son is begging me to buy him a Dawes Espoir (sigh).
I must get photos in here, is there a limit on how many photos you can post?
Me : Cervelo roadbike , bianchi road bike (winter), specialised tricross singlespeed, trek hardtail mountain bike , Co-motion tandem.
Can I include my bikes in our house in the alps? : Cannondale roadbike, Specialized enduro full sus mountain bike
Ju : Specialised Ruby roadbike , Marin Mountain bike
Millie : 3 specialised mountain bikes of different sizes used through the years
Max : 2 specialised and one Carrera mountainbike
Barnaby : Action man bike with stabilisers
Bloody hell that's 16 bikes and I've just remembered I don't have a dedicated touring bike and am planning a fully loaded tour next summer so i'd better start shopping.
As they say to the question "how many bikes do you need?" the answer is "One more than I've got "
Currently:
1.Argon 18 Gallium Pro - nice road rides
2.Planet X Uncle John - commuting
3.Focus Mares Expert - Cross bike
4.Sanderson Life - MTB
5. Specialized Rockhopper - the wifes
6.Islabike - 4yrold (if she ever can be bothered to try riding!)
7.Islabike - 2yrold (once he can reach the floor!)
8.Wooden strider bike
9. Puky trike
Quite restrained compared to some of you!
The wife's breastfeeding tops website
Lol.
You have a bike called Alan?
My wife calls things names like "Bernard" which is the "Freecom WLAN 350 Media Streamer". It rolls off the Tongue.
Alan are an Italian company, famous in the 70s and 80s in particular from some lovely aluminium lugged frames. Very collectable. Stands for ALuminium ANodized.
Pinarello Paris FP - race day ride
Colnago E1 - all day ride
Principia RSL - commuter rocket
Fondriest Top Level - flat bar triple crank touring roadie
Cannondale CAAD 7 converted to single speed.
Trek MTB, made some time back in the Bronze Age I think. Unbreakable.
Recent disposal: Pinarello FT1 - time trial, and an older refurbished steel frame race bike.
1. Wifes Specialized Ariel hybrid
2. Wifes decathalon MTB
3. my ancient Townsend MTB
4. Youngests Trek 3900 MTB
5. Eldests wethepeople BMX
6. Youngests X-trail BMX
7. Youngests crappy (soon to be scrapped) MTB
and on the way...
8. My new BMC Trailfox 03
9. Marlin Malt 2 for my eldest
but 3 & 7 will be going to bike heaven soon so that will bring us back down to 7
ok.. we have
1. My husbands Focus cyclocross & lots of different wheels
2. My Specialised Vita Sports hybrid
3. First Daughter's Islabike cnoc 16
4. First Daughter's old Early Rider Classic balance bike
5. Second Daughter's Islabike Cnoc 14
6. Second Daughter's Early Rider lite (which she still uses even though she rides her islabike)
7. Second daughter's little wooden trike
8. My old rusty raleigh mountain bike
9. First Daughter's Treck trailer bike (we had free from our nice neighbours)
1. Kona Haole
2. Focus Variado - Wet Weather Bike
3. Raleigh Hybrid - Extreme Sh!te Weather Bike
4. Brat 1 Dawes MTB
5. Brat 1 Apollo BMX
6. Brat 1/2 Triker
7. Brat 2 Raleigh MTB
8. Brat 3 Raleigh MTB
9. Brat 4 Raleigh MTB
10. Brat 5 BSO
11. Brat 6 BSO
doesnt include the several old kiddy bikes that are hidding in the attic.
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Adult size = 1 x commuter, 2 Cross bikes, 1 obsolete X bike (eyeing up to give away), 1 racer, 1 tourer, 1 hybrid, 1 childback tandem, 1 TT cannondale, 1 fixed wheel Dave Lloyd, 1 cheap freestyle BMX
Kiddy = 4 x Islabikes, 1 Halford's BSO MTB, 1 racing mini BMX, 1 spare 16" wheel character bike, 12" BSO without stabs, 12" BSO with stabs, 1 balance bike.
It gets serious confusing keeping track of the innertubes & spare tyres.
?12 of the bikes are not in regular use: waiting for someone to grow into them or kept as spares for visitors/odd events/sentiment. We should seriously consider using them as wall decorations.
Projection is that in 2 years we will be "down" to just 18 bikes. For the 6 of us, or 3 each!
Not counting spare wheels (at least 4 sets), small trikes & scooters, either. My garage is a jungle of rubber, metal & wheels.
Adult size = 1 x commuter, 2 Cross bikes, 1 obsolete X bike (eyeing up to give away), 1 racer, 1 tourer, 1 hybrid, 1 childback tandem, 1 TT cannondale, 1 fixed wheel Dave Lloyd, 1 cheap freestyle BMX
Kiddy = 4 x Islabikes, 1 Halford's BSO MTB, 1 racing mini BMX, 1 spare 16" wheel character bike, 12" BSO without stabs, 12" BSO with stabs, 1 balance bike.
It gets serious confusing keeping track of the innertubes & spare tyres.
?12 of the bikes are not in regular use: waiting for someone to grow into them or kept as spares for visitors/odd events/sentiment. We should seriously consider using them as wall decorations.
Projection is that in 2 years we will be "down" to just 18 bikes. For the 6 of us, or 3 each!
Not counting spare wheels (at least 4 sets), small trikes & scooters, either. My garage is a jungle of rubber, metal & wheels.
Spesh FSRxc
Saracen Kili Comp
Wife:
Pendleton Somerby
Son (5):
Islabike Cnoc 16
Daughter (2):
Strider bike (balance bike)
4 people. 5 bikes. Not bad. Soon be adding a road bike to my collection though.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
My Tricross for general use
My old and battered but still running Trek, bought in an emergency when my beautiful Felt Pro broke a rear stay pushing too hard up a steep bit.
My afore mentioned Felt which is hung up and gradually being eaten for parts.
My old Saracen which is just about a runner.
My wifes Ridgeback
Daughters Claude Butler
Daughters BSO won from Halfords and probably will go to Uni with her in the hope it gets knicked.
Older sons Pinnacle
Older sons Rockhopper now too small a frame
Younger sons new Rockhopper which he thinks is great.
Younger sons Kone 24" and now too small.
20" Rbk bike now for sale.
Wides Ridgeback?
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Me:
1 x Giant Road Bike
1 x Bauer MTB
1 x BMX bike
1 x Specialised commuter bike
Him:
1 x MTB
1 x ABD BMX race bike
1 x unicycle
Son:
1 x ABD BMX race bike
1 x MTB
Daughter
1 x BMX race bike
1 x MTB