Road Bikes ARE the new MTBs

[VamP]

On the basis of this post I reluctantly withdraw my hypothesis.

VamP has it right.

Not me though... I only have three bikes at my house. Last week I moved my better hardtail to my mother-in-law's farm, so it no longer counts.

And when I'm out on one of the three, there are only two at home. I haven't actually counted them, but I did the maths.

I don't know how I arrived at the correct number being more than 3. But you're right, and so am I.

Some of my bikes are at home, and others are in the garage. One is still in the shop, as I can't actually afford it right now. And one is in bits.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

I have 2 bike and want a MTB for riding trails in cornwall when i move so 3 is the right number for me! lol. My road bike will be used to race and commute, hybrid for when it breaks (or heavy rain)

Just need to find a 3 bed house or somewhere with a garage so i can store the ones im not using safely!

 

[tyred]

My advice to anyone is don't get involved in restoring vintage bikes. They seem to multiply like rabbits.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I have 2 bike and want a MTB for riding trails in cornwall when i move so 3 is the right number for me! lol. My road bike will be used to race and commute, hybrid for when it breaks (or heavy rain)

Just need to find a 3 bed house or somewhere with a garage so i can store the ones im not using safely!

So all you'll need after that is a fixed-gear bike and maybe a high-quality steel roadbike from the 80s to prepare for the coming retro roadbike fad.

 

[Kiwiavenger]

i was looking at an old steel 80's frame to switch to fixed/singlespeed but alas the move has put that idea on the back burner

 

[simon.r]

So all you'll need after that is a fixed-gear bike and maybe a high-quality steel roadbike from the 80s to prepare for the coming retro roadbike fad.

No, no, no, you'll need many more than that. A tandem, a recumbent, a folder, a full-sus MTB, a rigid MTB, an electric bike, singlespeed versions of all of these, hell...even tandem versions of all of these (with the possible exception of a tandem version of the tandem). The list is almost endless

 

[Boris Bajic]

No, no, no, you'll need many more than that. A tandem, a recumbent, a folder, a full-sus MTB, a rigid MTB, an electric bike, singlespeed versions of all of these, hell...even tandem versions of all of these (with the possible exception of a tandem version of the tandem). The list is almost endless

In which case I have a question:

So... Let's say I have a number of bicycles and let's give that number of bicycles a term: Let's say that the number of bicycles I have is represented by n, where n is a positive integer.

So n represents the number of bicycles currently in my possession.

How many bicycles are you saying I need?

 

[simon.r]

In which case I have a question:

So... Let's say I have a number of bicycles and let's give that number of bicycles a term: Let's say that the number of bicycles I have is represented by n, where n is a positive integer.

So n represents the number of bicycles currently in my possession.

How many bicycles are you saying I need?

That's an interesting way of considering the conundrum and one that I've not come across before. I need to go away and think about it.

 

[simon.r]

No, no, no, you'll need many more than that. A tandem, a recumbent, a folder, a full-sus MTB, a rigid MTB, an electric bike, singlespeed versions of all of these, hell...even tandem versions of all of these (with the possible exception of a tandem version of the tandem). The list is almost endless

Is it considered bad form to quote your own post? It's just that I've seen this on another thread and I need to withdraw my possible exception of a tandem tandem:

 

[VamP]

Is it considered bad form to quote your own post? It's just that I've seen this on another thread and I need to withdraw my possible exception of a tandem tandem:

Sure, but then there is also the need to have more than one example of each type of bike too

 

[tyred]

Is it considered bad form to quote your own post? It's just that I've seen this on another thread and I need to withdraw my possible exception of a tandem tandem:

Would be interesting on a tight hairpin bend.

 

[Davidc]

Am I alone in being well enough satisfied/ served by my presently owned 2 bikes (a slicked and racked hardtail mtb for town use and a tourer style road bike for leisure riding) not to want n+m (m being any positive integer between 1 and the total number of bikes in the universe)?

Which type of bike is currently in fashion doesn't bother me much, I'm just keen to see the private car either priced off the road or reduced by becoming as socially unacceptable as smoking, and that means more bikes and better public transport. The model from the Netherlands wil do.

I'd quite like to add a folder to the stable though.

 

[oldroadman]

Am I alone in being well enough satisfied/ served by my presently owned 2 bikes (a slicked and racked hardtail mtb for town use and a tourer style road bike for leisure riding) not to want n+m (m being any positive integer between 1 and the total number of bikes in the universe)?

Which type of bike is currently in fashion doesn't bother me much, I'm just keen to see the private car either priced off the road or reduced by becoming as socially unacceptable as smoking, and that means more bikes and better public transport. The model from the Netherlands wil do.

I'd quite like to add a folder to the stable though.

Interesting - the Netherlands don't do any such thing, they simply prioritise bicycles and they have become the accepted norm for trundling around your local town. What they have done is engineer their urban networks to slow everything down. Use of a car is still the usual for long trips, and with the exception of the Valkenburg area, there are very few hills, which obviously helps a lot with utility riding. Cars have their place in the transport mix, and Netherlands have that about right. Ownership of cars is quite high, but average km travelled are lower, and short journeys (under 5 km) are vastly less than UK , for instance.

 

[VamP]

Interesting - the Netherlands don't do any such thing, they simply prioritise bicycles and they have become the accepted norm for trundling around your local town. What they have done is engineer their urban networks to slow everything down. Use of a car is still the usual for long trips, and with the exception of the Valkenburg area, there are very few hills, which obviously helps a lot with utility riding. Cars have their place in the transport mix, and Netherlands have that about right. Ownership of cars is quite high, but average km travelled are lower, and short journeys (under 5 km) are vastly less than UK , for instance.

Yep, and rush hour traffic in the suburban area around Schiphol is no better than Heathrow

 

[Fab Foodie]

Fixed- wheelers are not the new MTB because they were around long before MTBs.
Road-bikes are not the new MTBs because road-bikes were around before MTBs

MTBs when they came along were new.