How many bikes do you own?

[TheDoctor]

Erm...
Tourer. Brommie. SS. Carbon Uberbike. Daewoo Shuttle (the shame...). Cheap Ebay Folder. MTB wot I was given t'other week.Hub-gear hack (that needs the wheel unbuckling).

This is getting a little out of hand. I haven't even got a 'bent yet. Or got the Kirk together, for that matter...

 

[Will1985]

9: 3 road, 2 TT, 1 track, 1 winter fixed, 1 cross, 1 mtb

 

[swee'pea99]

The commitee assumed that this is a bike which is owned by the correspondent and loaned to friends.

Well I bloody well hope so else there'll be trouble.

Am happy to report the accuracy of the committee's assumption, and thank it for its tolerance of pedallessness.

 

[JonnyBlade]

Just 4

Boardman carbon, Kestrel carbon tt, raleigh pursuit (rebuilt), marushi winter plodder

 

[GordonB]

12 13 (forgot that I have a Lemond Nevada City at a friends house on Jersey that I'll be bringing back next time I go over)

Late 1980's early 1990's Olmo prototype with fluted tubing (best dry Sundays bike)
Vitus 979 in black full Campag Veloce
Vitus 979 in white full Shimano 105, brifters
Vitus 787 in plain silver, full Shimano 105, dt shifters
Nigel Dean Reynolds 653
Bill Nickson tourer Reynolds 531 Designer Select
Sirius micro low pro TT bike, 700c rear wheel 24 inch front
Mecacycle Turbo (split seat tube, short wheelbase)
Fondriest MegaCarb early alloy bike with carbon stays
"Colnago" but it's not, it's a fake, nice Italian frame with Colnago decals
Ridley Aeron, my winter bike just completed
Specialized Hard Rock mtb

Wife has a Roberts 531c almost full Dura Ace, a Nigel Dean 531 tourer and a Specialized Hard Rock, kids have two Specialized mtbs, a Scott road bike and two BMXs. I also have enough frames, wheels and parts to knock up a couple more road bikes.

My road bikes tend to get ridden in rotation or as the conditions dictate but this can be a bit arbitrary. The Mecacycle gets ridden when I feel like watching other cyclists walk into lamp posts craning their necks to look at it, but it's not the most comfortable machine being exceedingly twitchy in the turns. The Olmo is drop dead gorgeous now I've converted it to Campag 8 speed Veloce Ergos shifting on a 7 speed Shimano cassette. I did this to avoid having to cold set the rear fork to 130mm. Most often I take the black Vitus 979 out as it fits like it was custom built for me and runs faultlessly. The Sirius only gets used a few times a year for time trials and is quite the most uncomfortable bike I've ever ridden with its head down, ar*e up position - can't maintain that for more than 10 miles - but it's very quick, unlike the pilot.

Gordon

 

[mickle]

12 13 (forgot that I have a Lemond Nevada City at a friends house on Jersey that I'll be bringing back next time I go over)

Late 1980's early 1990's Olmo prototype with fluted tubing (best dry Sundays bike)
Vitus 979 in black full Campag Veloce
Vitus 979 in white full Shimano 105, brifters
Vitus 787 in plain silver, full Shimano 105, dt shifters
Nigel Dean Reynolds 653
Bill Nickson tourer Reynolds 531 Designer Select
Sirius micro low pro TT bike, 700c rear wheel 24 inch front
Mecacycle Turbo (split seat tube, short wheelbase)
Fondriest MegaCarb early alloy bike with carbon stays
"Colnago" but it's not, it's a fake, nice Italian frame with Colnago decals
Ridley Aeron, my winter bike just completed
Specialized Hard Rock mtb

Wife has a Roberts 531c almost full Dura Ace, a Nigel Dean 531 tourer and a Specialized Hard Rock, kids have two Specialized mtbs, a Scott road bike and two BMXs. I also have enough frames, wheels and parts to knock up a couple more road bikes.

My road bikes tend to get ridden in rotation or as the conditions dictate but this can be a bit arbitrary. The Mecacycle gets ridden when I feel like watching other cyclists walk into lamp posts craning their necks to look at it, but it's not the most comfortable machine being exceedingly twitchy in the turns. The Olmo is drop dead gorgeous now I've converted it to Campag 8 speed Veloce Ergos shifting on a 7 speed Shimano cassette. I did this to avoid having to cold set the rear fork to 130mm. Most often I take the black Vitus 979 out as it fits like it was custom built for me and runs faultlessly. The Sirius only gets used a few times a year for time trials and is quite the most uncomfortable bike I've ever ridden with its head down, ar*e up position - can't maintain that for more than 10 miles - but it's very quick, unlike the pilot.

Gordon

There's always one isn't there?

 

[4F]

There's always one isn't there?

This is getting like top trumps, just waiting for Hilldodger to find the thread

 

[GordonB]

This is getting like top trumps, just waiting for Hilldodger to find the thread

Don't forget that in Top Trumps it's not just the number of bikes that would count, there's the coolness, rarity, value, desirability etc factors to take into account! Not sure I'd win, but they are mostly very nice machines.

As you're near Felixstowe you may have seen one or two of these bikes being ridden round Suffolk, depending on how far you stray from the peninsula, as I'm about 5 miles north of Ipswich.

Gordon

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...they are mostly very nice machines...I'm about 5 miles north of Ipswich.

Packs bolt-croppers and sets off in large van.

 

[GordonB]

Packs bolt-croppers and sets off in large van.

I'd suggest you'll also need body armour and some form of invisibility cloak

Gordon

 

[dan_bo]

Fixie (ridgeback)
Crosser (80's Orbit Team GB, at the mo)
Track iron (Viking SS-T)
MTB (On-one 853)
Wife's MTB (Kona Hahanna)

Makes 5

+ various other frames n bits n bobs

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Fixie (ridgeback)
Crosser (80's Orbit Team GB, at the mo)
Track iron (Viking SS-T)
MTB (On-one 853)
Wife's MTB (Kona Hahanna)

Makes 5

+ various other frames n bits n bobs

What about that SWB Kaffenback, Dan?

 

[4F]

Don't forget that in Top Trumps it's not just the number of bikes that would count, there's the coolness, rarity, value, desirability etc factors to take into account! Not sure I'd win, but they are mostly very nice machines.

As you're near Felixstowe you may have seen one or two of these bikes being ridden round Suffolk, depending on how far you stray from the peninsula, as I'm about 5 miles north of Ipswich.

Gordon

I do as much straying as I can get away with

 

[dan_bo]

What about that SWB Kaffenback, Dan?

Currently being converted into a wheelie machine

 

[HLaB]

Down to two working bikes until the new dérailleur comes for my Kinesis