I think I can relate to your original comment about freeing up mental space, which is at a premium for me, so going N-1 offers considerable merit, IMO. Also, I recently read Mari Kondo. And if pretending to be you, I would do this:
- Find a good new home for the Bomba - Find a new home for the newest Specialized - Find a new home for the Rom + Get an Appaloosa and set up with dirt drops, fat tires, and a riser stem, fenderless, narrowest Q factor crank 2x. + Get spare Compass EL tires for the Saluki. = Everything else stays the same DONE! Seems like this way you'd be covering 99.5% of the riding you actually do, still have a spare when a friend visits, generate a bit of cash for the bike slush fund. Just as an aside, I did an experiment: rode my then-newly-acquired, 58cm, 650b Ebisu exclusively for 1 year. Dirt roads. Smooth roads. Some off road. It was great. I was slower off-road than I'd be on a 29er, but oh well! I then got a second, light wheelset for it, and I think it could just ride this set up 99% of the time. My only wish would be to have an identical fender-less version for off-road or very fast rides with the faster of my riding buddies. Since I'm on a 58cm frame, I could just as well ride 700c. And I'm slowly getting to a Jobstian outlook on owning multiple bikes: it's just mentally, spatially, and financially too taxing to maintain a "fleet" beyond one or two frames, plus some spare components. - Heretically, Max in A2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
