Poll

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

None right now
Just the one
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
More than twenty
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pdm

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Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #50 on: 09 July, 2008, 08:47:10 pm »
I have a very frugal collection, it seems.....

Amazon winter commuter
Orbit Summer commuter
Valkyrie Audax
Orbit Audax/Leisure bike
Thorn Tandem
Giant Hybrid (for SWMBO)
Orbit Photon (used by my younger copy son)
Giant City bike (used by my daughter)
Specialised Allez (now too small for my son and used by Son in Law to be when he comes a-riding in the peaks)

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #51 on: 09 July, 2008, 08:58:17 pm »
Sorry - just had a count - now 21! I think I need a clear out!

Woofage

  • Tofu-eating Wokerati
  • Ain't no hooves on my bike.
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #52 on: 09 July, 2008, 09:02:51 pm »

Oh bugger, you're right.  Seventeen  :-[

*poll amended*

List them then!
Pen Pusher

cc93

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #53 on: 09 July, 2008, 09:10:48 pm »
Mercian Audax
Thorn Audax (Mk3) - replacement frame for
Paul Donohue 631, mangled, (oops)
Marin Muirwoods MTB (L)

Marin Muirwoods MTB (M - Mrs W)

Merlin MTB - Son 1, replacement frame for
Carrera Banshee, mangled

Scott MTB - Son 2

+ Assorted smaller MTB's rusting quietly away, unable to throw away & not organised enough to find good homes for.

woollypigs

  • Mr Peli
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Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #54 on: 09 July, 2008, 09:12:27 pm »
We got 9 in the flat and 1 at a friends house and 3 up north. So that is 12 in all (5 mine, 7 Peli's)

Though only 4 of them can be ridden atm.
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #55 on: 09 July, 2008, 09:56:33 pm »
8, I think, between Mrs. Hall, The Boy and me.  I have the majority.

All in the garage.


I have seen inside Chris Juden's garage.  50 odd, I'm sure.

Truly, we are not worthy.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #56 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:08:44 pm »
 :-[
We only have five between two of us.  I feel inadequate, and must immediately purchase a fresh brace of cycles.

Betty, Dawes Horizon
Poppy, Pearson Audax
The Cardinal, GT Rave
Oscar, Giant Cold Rock
and
Luther, Guess RB

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #57 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:30:25 pm »
For me

2 x delicious road bikes
1 x steel bike w.guards
1 x fixed
1 x mtb, slicked up for road use

For her

1 x steel road bike (soon to be replaced with a ti/carbon model)
1 x ti bike w.guards
1 x fixed

+ assorted wheels/pedals/parts.

If funds/room were freely available, this number would increase significantly. I could end up like US chat show host Jay Leno who takes his obsession with things automotive to the extreme of having a 17,000 sq.ft facility to house his car/truck collection and his own team of mechanics with a workshop/fabrication facility

Mike J

  • Guinea Pig Person
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #58 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:31:15 pm »
Just the one  :)

donpedro

  • ain`t haulin` any lambs to the marketplace anymore
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Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #59 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:31:59 pm »
We got 9 in the flat and 1 at a friends house and 3 up north. So that is 12 in all (5 mine, 7 Peli's)

Though only 4 of them can be ridden atm.

So wolly, according to the question only that last one count! ;)
I get back when I have constructed a shed (will never own a garage) for my bikes/projects!
"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."

fiendish

  • Yummy!
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #60 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:37:36 pm »
We're lightweights, there's only 6 here.

Mine - old mtb with baby seat; road bike
His - summer bike, winter bike, mtb
Both - Dawes Galaxy Twin.

And the littlun has a wooden trike - does that count?  It does quite a few miles around the garden.

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #61 on: 09 July, 2008, 10:47:43 pm »
Just the one  :)

And really that's all we need, but it just doesn't happen.

alchemy

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #62 on: 09 July, 2008, 11:58:25 pm »
Only two  :-[ :(

But they do have their own separate store room in the garage.

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #63 on: 10 July, 2008, 12:23:32 am »
I've got two (Super Galaxy and Mongoose MTB) with one on order (Enigma Ti tourer). When the Enigma arrives, the Super G will go.
Ideally I would like one bike only- the Enigma- but I can see the  point in having an MTB as well so I would consider upgrading the Mongoose even though we go back 15+ years.
Fixed has no appeal- my knees sometimes suffer after football and I really think I've got a restricted speed range sort of engine.
I don't race or TT.
A lightweight road bike and/or a Cross bike has appeal though.
Maybe I should think in terms of the Enigma plus a set of spare wheels with "knobbly" tyres and a racer ?

No  :hand: I still come back to one main bike with the Mongoose for locking up in town.
N+1 doesn't seem to work for me.
Maybe I need to seek another forum.  :-\
I'll say goodbye to those of you that I meet on the DD  :'(


LindaG

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #64 on: 10 July, 2008, 12:28:37 am »
Five.  My Dawes Horizon.  The Viking Valiant Future Fixed Project with the decorative corrosion.  Crusty's hack bike (more corrosion), Crusty's tourer, The Boy's road bike.

There used to be seven but I have lent two of my bikes out in the interests of encouraging others to cycle  O:-)  :sick: ::-)

TheLurker

  • Goes well with magnolia.
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #65 on: 10 July, 2008, 08:39:10 am »
Also; no one has just one bike  ;D
I have only one bike.  I clicked 'two' because Mrs Lurker's bike also lives in the garage.

If the question had been, "How many bikes do you, personally, ie on your own, not counting anybody else's bikes that might happen to live, lodge or otherwise reside at your house, have?" Then I would have clicked 'one'. :D

Oh god, I think I need to go and lie down in a darkened room.  After I've killed my colleague who insists on slurping his bloody tea and chewing gum with his mouth open. Argggggggggggggh.
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #66 on: 10 July, 2008, 08:47:51 am »
This thread seems to have become a set of lists - well, when in Rome!

Pinarello Dogma
Pinarello Sestriere race (close clearance
2x Pinarello Sestriere with guards
Specialized road bike
Bottechia steel
Perks Alloy/carbon
Thorn audax  
Merckx titanium
Merckx MX
Merckx SLX
Hetchins Magnum Opus
Perks Low profile (650 front - any offers?)
Empella cross bike
Mercian road/track
Mercian vintage King of Mercia
2x Merckx track bikes
Geoffrey Butler track bike
Specialized mountain bike
Alan Richards (on turbo and suffering)

I feel as if I've been to confession!

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #67 on: 10 July, 2008, 08:50:09 am »
This thread seems to have become a set of lists - well, when in Rome!

Pinarello Dogma
Pinarello Sestriere race (close clearance
2x Pinarello Sestriere with guards
Specialized road bike
Bottechia steel
Perks Alloy/carbon
Thorn audax  
Merckx titanium
Merckx MX
Merckx SLX
Hetchins Magnum Opus
Perks Low profile (650 front - any offers?)
Empella cross bike
Mercian road/track
Mercian vintage King of Mercia
2x Merckx track bikes
Geoffrey Butler track bike
Specialized mountain bike
Alan Richards (on turbo and suffering)

I feel as if I've been to confession!

phew, thanks Paul, that makes me feel so much better!!

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #68 on: 10 July, 2008, 08:56:40 am »
This thread seems to have become a set of lists - well, when in Rome!

Pinarello Dogma
Pinarello Sestriere race (close clearance
2x Pinarello Sestriere with guards
Specialized road bike
Bottechia steel
Perks Alloy/carbon
Thorn audax  
Merckx titanium
Merckx MX
Merckx SLX
Hetchins Magnum Opus
Perks Low profile (650 front - any offers?)
Empella cross bike
Mercian road/track
Mercian vintage King of Mercia
2x Merckx track bikes
Geoffrey Butler track bike
Specialized mountain bike
Alan Richards (on turbo and suffering)

I feel as if I've been to confession!

What a stable!  :thumbsup:
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #69 on: 10 July, 2008, 09:01:20 am »
FIVE Merckxes ? FIVE, that's being greedy, what size are they ? Wouldn' mind another SLX or MX.

Charlotte

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Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #70 on: 10 July, 2008, 09:14:01 am »

Oh bugger, you're right.  Seventeen  :-[

*poll amended*

List them then!

Okay then...

Our bike:

Josephine the Santana tandem

My bikes:

Margaret Hilda the Roberts tandem
Alfred the Mercian fixie
Sleipnir the Roberts custom audax
Iago the 853 race bike
Thelma the Thorn Cyclosportif
Helga the HP Velotechnik Streetmachine recumbent
Phil the winter fixie
As yet unnamed black track bike
An as yet unnamed Harry Quinn fixie
An as yet unnamed classic steel Specialized Rockhopper
An as yet unnamed 3 speed red Brompton

Liz's bikes

Ruby the Specialized soot bike
Rosie the Thorn Brevet
Gudrun the Trek race bike
Ollie, the Dolan fixie
An as yet unnamed basket-case Roberts TT bike in need of some lurve
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #71 on: 10 July, 2008, 09:32:23 am »
Our List:

Mine:

Blue - Carlton Fixie
Swiftsure - Orbit Silver Medal
Whsh - Woodrup Giro

(in Yorkshire)
Reg - Rudge Pathfinder

Butterfly:

Marjorie - Orbit Orion
Mrs Bucket - Trek Pilot 5.0 Carbon loveliness
Lily - Dawes Galaxy

(in Kent)
Giant MTB

Tandems:

Dawes Super Galaxy
Dawes 2Across

(in Yorkshire)
Orbit twin
KHS Sport (not technically ours)

(elsewhere in London)
Orbit Libra

Superstoker's:

Ridgeback Cyclone

Our Kid's:

Raleigh M8000(?)

Others:

2x Anonymo Special Hybrids
Getting there...

ian

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #72 on: 10 July, 2008, 11:10:04 am »
Four (under cover, because the shed man has yet to arrive).

Mr Speedy, my trusty commutified Saracen mtb
Mr Wobbles, my Giant road bike
Miss Squeaky, my wife's Pinnacle hybrid (now oiled)
Miss Clunky, crap pile o' shite Halfords ladies mtb that no one wants


Robbo5

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #73 on: 10 July, 2008, 12:06:06 pm »
In England
Mercian lugless with Rohloff

In France
Woodrup fixed.
Mme R's Orbit Orion
Her sister's Orbit Orion
Her brother's Look something or other.
Her father's Lejeune.
Her mother's roadster.
The staffs' roadsters. (4)

Re: How many bikes are there in your shed/garage/house?
« Reply #74 on: 10 July, 2008, 12:16:34 pm »
Ten bikes - 30% fixed, 20% singlespeed, the other 50% have 116 gears between them.