How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?

[mike]

10 is rather a lot, isnt it..

Down to 6 now!  Two by getting divorced, but I'm down a proper TT bike and mtb since 10 years ago too.

In order of frequency used this year - elephant bike, tatty singlespeed, tourer, posh road bike, turbo and occasional TT bike, folding bike.

[De Sisti]

Interesting - did you fall out with the Hewitt, your favorite bike? Also swapping the Longstaff for a Spa seems an odd one, was it intended?

Paul,

I did not swap the Longstaff for a Spa. Even though the Longstaff was made to measure,
the top tube was way too long at 59 cm. I kept on feeling that I was in a Graeme Obree
superman position. I had no problem selling it though. A 54 or 55 cm top tube suits me
(with an 11 or 10 cm stem respectively).

The Hewitt Cheviott (that I was measured up for by Mr Hewitt at the London cycle show when it was held at the Islington Business centre, and had the measurements confirmed a week later at his shop in Preston); although a comfortable ride, he later confirmed to me that the measurements weren't quite right. Check out the multiple headset spacers.




I went on to buy a Hewitt Chiltern (frame), which I subsequently sold, then bought a Spa Audax, plus a Dolan Dual (though not at the same time). I've not bought a complete bike this century; preferring to purchase a frame and transfer components.

[Paul H]

I did not swap the Longstaff for a Spa. Even though the Longstaff was made to measure, the top tube was way too long
SNIP

Thanks for the reply - yes by "swap" I meant one out one in rather than an exchange...
Unfortunate that you'd have two bikes from people with good reputations for fit and them both be wrong, your Hewitt looks way out, doesn't look like mine at all.

[rr]

7
Me elephant bike, Rose gravel/road bike and diamonback apex 90s rigid mountain bike.
Mrs R sit up and beg
Mini Islabikes Lauth 700 large
Micro specialized vita large
So over the last 10 years I've gained 2, Mrs R swapped one
Two Islabikes sold and one bought, one lady's bike bought.

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[Adam]

I had to revise my number from the original 8 to 11, as in the last couple of years we've got a second tandem amongst others additions.  The one snag is that the new garage is only about 40% of the size of the old one. 

I might have to rationalise a bit...……..

[Paul]

13.

Blimey - time to review our insurance too, I reckon.

And another on the way, that I forgot to include.

They are my pension.

Blimey: 10 years on and we have 1 additional person but 2 fewer bikes.

Although one of those bikes has got 3 saddles.

Oh, but another of those bikes isn’t ours (the forum road bike for kids).

I lost my lovely garage in the move so we don’t have the space we had 10 years ago. Luckily, the mortgage is higher here so I couldn’t afford more bikes anyway 

[hatler]

Oh boy. Including the shed somewhere else I reckon it comes to 15, if trailer bikes are counted as 1 each. If they're a half, then 14.

New sparkly road bike
Old slightly duller road bike (Peugeot)
Raleigh racer (sort of in pieces)
Orange Evo 2
Orange P7
Orange E6
Ridgeback MX20
Islabike Beinn
Old boy's fake BMX
Purple Hybrid
Rescued (from a dustbin) (but brand new) Kona
Kiddy's purple 12" wheeler
Diamondback old MTB
Trailer bike 1
Trailer bike 2

Doesn't sound like we're too abnormal then   

Good grief.

New sparkly road bike
Just clicked through 25000 miles

Old slightly duller road bike (Peugeot)
Still hanging on the garage wall waiting for the day when mini-hatler needs a crappy bike for uni.

Raleigh racer (sort of in pieces)
Freecycled.

Orange Evo 2
Orange E6
Both still to be seen regularly bouncing along the South Downs Way

Orange P7
Still in regular utility use by Mrs hatler, either commuting or runs to the allotment.

Ridgeback MX20
Donated to friends at the 'van

Islabike Beinn
Sold to friends at the 'van. Now on it's fourth child and just completed 70 miles in France over a weekend with a seven year old aboard.

Old boy's fake BMX
Long since sold (for not much).

Purple Hybrid
Left out the front of the house with a 'Please take me away' sign.Gone in less than 10 minutes.

Rescued (from a dustbin) (but brand new) Kona
Still in use as the general purpose utility bike / trailer lugger / loan out bike for anyone who stays.

Kiddy's purple 12" wheeler
Donated for general use for all and sundry at the 'van

Diamondback old MTB
Hanging on the garage wall waiting for the day when mini-hatler's first uni bike is nicked. Alsorolled out if we need to loan out a bike for use on the South Downs Way.

Trailer bike 1
Trailer bike 2
Both sold to mates at the 'van

However, we now have to add on : -

Spesh Dolce
Outgrown by little miss hatler - awaiting disposal

Moda something
mini-hatler's cyclo-crossbike

Spesh carbon something
Bought from spesh otp for mini-hatler, in regular use as his runabout and occasional longer run

Bianchi 928
Little miss hatler's best bike - she lurves it

Trek Domane
Mrs hatler's road bike

Orange E8
mini-hatler's MTB

Orange Diva
Little miss hatler's MTB

Rounding off at 14 again !   We're nothing if not consistent.

(We've also bought and sold an Islabike Luath, and an Islabike Beinn 700 in that time. The Beinn was new, we ran two kids through it and sold it for about £10 less than we bought it for. The Luath was second hand when we got it and it sold for about £20 less. Oo yes, and a freecycled Ridgeback MX24 and an anonymous folder, both of which I got running, tidied up and sold for a few quid.)

ETA. Also bought and sold a Spesh Dolce Elite (Mrs hatler's fist foray into the world of road bikes) and we also have a temporary stand-in Trek something MTB originally for little miss but now on permanent loan at the 'van to one of the Blackberry Gang or for us if one of little miss's mates needs it. Which means we have 15.

[Jurek]

I think you've just won the internet.

[orienteer]

Three Moultons in the garage stacked and chained up behind the car: ATB including optional tandem insert and e-assist, Double Pylon, Bridgestone Moulton.

Original F-frame Moulton in the shed, not used but I bought it new in 1965 for 26 guineas.

The Bridgestone was not strictly necessary, but I enjoy riding it and the fact that it is a (relatively) modern update on the brilliant original F-frame design.

[drossall]

When I was young, I rode many miles on few bikes. Now that I am older, and have less free time, I ride fewer miles on more bikes. There's something wrong there...

But I enjoy the bikes

[Pedaldog.]

2 Trices
1 Longstaff trike
1 Pashley trike
1 Streetmachine gte
1 Oke-ja
1 Tour easy clone
1 T-rex trike
1 trek ATB
1 Scott ATB, sorted for touring
1 Reid Wayfarer ss/fixie
1 Dahon speed TR
1 Dahon mu
1 Pacific Reach
1 Mezzo
1 Brox
1 Dawes Hybrid
1 Dawes graduate
1 BSA ss
1 BSA Indian town bike
1 mk3 Moulton
1 Holdsworth for full resto'
1 Volt Alpine-X
1 Pinnacle Ramin 3+
1 Carrera with Nexus 7, using it for he parts
1 Pashley town bike
1 Dawes Sterling(?)
A few others in bits and pieces.

[Kim]

 

[Greenbank]

Ahem, this is still the one to beat:-

Somewhere over 250.

[De Sisti]

I'd like another one, specced up with downtube levers. But as with my many watches,
it has to be on a 'one in, one out' basis.

[Butterfly]

Since 2008 things have changed somewhat. One person has moved out. One person has turned up. We are currently spread over 2 houses.

So.

We have 3 tandems, though sadly only one in regular use

2 Dahon folders

1 ti fast bike

TGL's 2 bikes

1 balance bike that the duck still loves

2 bikes that the duck has grown out of

the Duck's islabike beinn 20

clarion's 3speed fixed

clarions's 2 fancy bikes

clarion's tourer

my tourer

my winter bike

my vintage bike

one trailerbike

hmmm 19 and a half I think.

The mountain bike in my dad's garage has moved on to my sister's. My nephew was riding it but I think he is now riding clarion's old tourer.

[Paul H]

Ahem, this is still the one to beat:-

Somewhere over 250.

I expect Roger kept some, but most of them went in Cyclemagic's closing down sale about five years ago.

[Whitestone]

Well there's just my wife and myself, both of us keen cyclists. So ...

1 x road bike each - Specialized Roubaix and BH something or other
1 x CX/commuter each - Pinnacle 3 and Genesis Crox de Fer
1 x rigid MTB each - Cotic Solaris and Stooge Mk 1
1 x fat bike each - Singular Puffin and Surly Wednesday
1 x full suspension bike (me) - Salsa Spearfish
1 x HT MTB (her) - Cotic Soul
1 x singlespeed road (me) - On-One Pompetamine frame
1 x singlespeed road frame (her) - custom steel frame

I make that 11 plus one frame. All are in the house as we've no garage. All (apart from the frame) get regular use. Looking at some of the above, we are amateurs

[L CC]

Mr Smith & I have not enough garages.
Neither of us confessed the first time this thread arose..

2T (♂♀)
2 HT MTB (♂♀)
2 x 'cross bikes (♂♀)
2 x 'fast' bikes (♂♀)
Commuter (♀)
Fixed (♂)
Ice (♀)
2 x frames (♂♀)
TT bike (♀)
Turbo bike (♂; but also ♀)

We have another tandem out on loan and a retro-tastic Dawes at the ancestral homelands.


This thread ought to be more hidden. Clearly nefarious types could go maaaaaaad.

[rogerzilla]

There'a tribe somewhere that only has one, two and many as their number system.

That would hide the shame.

[ijsbrand]

There'a tribe somewhere that only has one, two and many as their number system.

That would hide the shame.

Yes. Posting numbers here feels like a weird mix between bragging, and entering a meeting of a help program.

Anyway. Twelve, and working on the thirteenth:

1 x roadbike [Raleigh Triathlon]
1 x randonneur/roadbike with mudguards and dynamo lights [Koga Miyata Roadspeed]
1 x randonneur/roadbike with mudgurads and dynamo lights and racks [Koga Miyata Gentstouring]
1 x Eroica roadbike [Koga Miyata Gentsracer]

1 x commuter with IGH [blue Gazelle Sprinter Race]
1 x commuter with derailleur [golden Gazelle Sprinter Race]
1 x commuter single speed [Batavus Sprint]
1 x commuter folding bike single speed [Tern Uno]

1 x touring bike [Giant Trooper]
1 x 29'er [no name aluminium frame]
1 x Stadtblitzer, single speed [Koga Miyata Gentsracer]
1 x folding bike with gears [Dahon Boardwalk]

[Paul]

I'm sorry I didn't do a list 10 years ago. I'm going to guess at:

Dawes Super Galaxy Tandem
Massi team Comp (the Gay Disco)
Kaffenback
Scott MTBs (x2)
Claud Butler Dalesman
Specialised Dolce
Ridgeback 24
Wooden LikeaBike (balance bike)
Pompino
Longstaff audax
Trek WSD road bike (v small)
Brompton

I can't think what the other one was.

in 2018, 6 remain from the '08 family:

Scott MTBs (x2)
Specialised Dolce
Ridgeback 24
Longstaff audax
Brompton

Plus:

Mercian KOM
Thorn me 'n' U2
Freddie Grubb (fixated)
Ridgeback MTB
Peugeot (FRBFK)
A forgettable hybrid from Grandma that no-one uses

There, now I won't be so stumped when this thread is resurrected in 2028!

[DuncanM]

My wife has a bike that she has ridden once in the last 9 years.
My daughter has a (more frequently used) islabike.

I have:
1 fixie (used regularly for TTs)
1 carbon road bike (used for road and turbo)
1 steel road bike (for sale, never used)
2 BMX - one semi permanently loaned out, another as a donor for a 2 wheel recumbent of the future - neither used
1 Folder (Raleigh 20 - used very rarely)
1 MTB - used once this year!
1 homebrew trike (rideable but not finished).

So if you include all of them as bikes, that's 10, 8 of which are mine!

[ElyDave]

I'm down to 5 at the moment

Sold 29'er as i never rode it,
sold CF road bike as I preferred the Al framed one,
bought, refurbed and sold dahon folder as I didn't like it
bought rode, liked and sold ICE B2 to fund the M5 purchase

Now have
Daughters MTB runabout
Rigid 90's MTB runabout
Rebuilt Giant roadbike
M5 recumbent - up for sale right now as I've not ridden it in months - this will be N-1 to allow N+1
Cruzbike S40 for which the Giant was cannibalised and has been my main bike ever since

[Gus]

Trek Sawyer
Salsa Fargo
Salsa Casserole
Surly Pugsley
Thorn Raven Sport

and an
 On-One Fatty frame

That means I'm down to 5 now
But I own a car now too 

[T42]

One in the house, three in the barn, three in the workshop.  CBA enumerating them.