Should i sell the Defy 5

[Cuchilo]

To fund the TCR1 Advanced fund ?
I don't really need too but as its getting close to taking possession im wondering if I really need the two road bikes .
Although I use the bike to get from A-B Its never left unattended and I have a pub bike for nipping to the shops anyway .
The defy will in effect become a wet weather bike and that seems wrong to me .
I guess what I am asking is how many of you use your best bikes no matter what and what bikes you leave unattended if they are of high value to you .

 

[Kies]

Best bike
Winter bike
Folder
Mtb

Is the correct minimum no of bikes, before the equation n+1 starts to come into play. The winter bike can be a road bike or hybrid and must have full mudguards all year round

 

[Cuchilo]

Hmmmmm so I need to buy a folder then .

 

[derrick]

Best bike goes out in any weather.
Commuter goes out in any weather
MTB goes out in any weather.
If you have a bike use it.

 

[MikeW-71]

Defy 2 is my commuter and "winter" bike now. Lights and mudguards will be left on almost permanently. Might do some light touring with it too.
Advanced 2 "best bike" still goes out on nice days in the winter, I just can't resist riding it whenever I can, it's so nice. Rode it a couple of weeks ago, roads were wet, it got mucky, I cleaned it.

I wouldn't leave either of those two locked up in town though.

There's always the MTB, which I expect to get mucky, so it doesn't bother me.

Or there's the scooter

 

[vickster]

Do you plan to do any sort of touring, if so you'll need the Defy to take a rack

I have two roadbikes and a flatbar, I ride all of them (although the best carbon least of all as it doesn't carry stuff)

They are all insured

 

[Kies]

Hmmmmm so I need to buy a folder then .

Best bike
Winter bike
Folder
Mtb

Is the correct minimum no of bikes, before the equation n+1 starts to come into play. The winter bike can be a road bike or hybrid and must have full mudguards all year round

 

[Cuchilo]

Do you plan to do any sort of touring, if so you'll need the Defy to take a rack

I have two roadbikes and a flatbar, I ride all of them (although the best carbon least of all as it doesn't carry stuff)

They are all insured

Ahhh theres the answer I needed Gotta get the veg home from the allotment somehow and I hate driving there in the van as its so close .

 

[vickster]

Job done

 

[Cuchilo]

I'll have to find something else to worry about now , like how to keep two bikes in the front room ! I feel a bike stand may be getting designed in the workshop very soon !

 

[vickster]

I have three built plus an exercise bike, plus a frame in a box...you, Sir, are a mere amateur

 

[MikeW-71]

Two in the cupboard under the stairs, the other lives in the hall.

 

[Cuchilo]

I have three built plus an exercise bike, plus a frame in a box...you, Sir, are a mere amateur

Well you have busted me on the bike front but never on the toy front

 

[cyberknight]

All these people keeping the bike in the house, how do you stop a 2 year old from playing with the bike/ knocking it over/getting oil off the chain?

 

[themosquitoking]

Dead easy, i never let 2 year olds into the house.