Do I need help?

[porteous]

Just bought ANOTHER dead bike. That makes 7, three rebuilt, two given to family members and three waiting to be done. (The 7th is a nice light OLD winter training bike).

I bought this because 1. I like old bikes.
2. It only cost £10
3. It is close by.
4. I don't have a Royal Enfield town bike.

Now number 4 is the most worrying. Is there a Bikes Anonymous somewhere that I can join? "I am a bikaholic and havent bought an old bike for 97 days!", or something like that.

Her indoors is getting noticably thin lipped about the whole business.

Are there other sufferers out there?

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[4F]

Picking up no 4 for me on Saturday (freebie) however I will first have to address the storage issue as with various family bikes that will be a total of 11 in 1 shed

Go the normal "what an earth do you need another bike for"

 

[Twenty Inch]

Don't worry, I have 9 in the cellar. I am trying not to go into double figures.

Tell SWMBO that you're going to get rid of a couple, identify the "sacrificial" bike that has to go if she really gets peeved, and then involve her in the sending of it - helping to box it up etc. She'll feel relieved that you are listening to her and making an effort (in fact you could buy a frame especially for this purpose).

Then take the wheels of the remaining frames, and every time you go down to the cellar or into the shed, move them around a little so that she's never QUITE sure exactly how many you have.

 

[dustystreet]

Don't worry, I have 9 in the cellar.

you are the fred west of the cycling world AICMFP!

 

[XmisterIS]

"Hi, my name's Porteous ... and I'm a bikeaholic ... (starts to cry) ... well ... what can I say? It started with a BMX back in '82 ... I thought it was all ... so ... innocent!" (disolves into uncontrollable sobbing)

 

[swee'pea99]

Tell SWMBO that you're going to get rid of a couple, identify the "sacrificial" bike that has to go if she really gets peeved, and then involve her in the sending of it - helping to box it up etc. She'll feel relieved that you are listening to her and making an effort (in fact you could buy a frame especially for this purpose).

That is a depth of cynicism to which even I have not fallen. Sir, I salute you!

I've stopped short at only bringing them into the house under cover of darkness and muddling them in with t'others, so when 'er indores does finally twig 'we have a new littl'un in toe', I can say 'well it's taken you seven weeks to notice it, so it can't be that in the way'. (I wouldn't recommend this, incidentally, it's just I can't think of a better solution. Other than to stop at n rather than n+1, but that's no solution now is it...?)

 

[tyred]

My mother was asking me why I need 6 bikes. Me, I was thinking I would like a 1930s lightweight.

 

[Arch]

When I got my third, my sister asked "why do you need three bikes, you've only got one arse!" I pointed out that she only had one pair of feet, but many pairs of shoes, and she conceded the point.

There was a point when my late BF and I counted up the bikes and bits of bikes in our shared house, and it came to 28 - that included some frames in the loft and the tandem frame tied to the banisters.

 

[Twenty Inch]

There is a member of this forum, who shall be nameless, who has about 30 bikes between himself and his wife.

 

[ttcycle]

30 bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow.

 

[dustystreet]

There is a member of this forum, who shall be nameless, who has about 30 bikes between himself and his wife.

how do you ever get to have sex with her?

 

[Twenty Inch]

Oh very good!