Jim, That is just like my situation! Here in Nashville there are so many garages that eclipse my bike collection in value with just one car and nobody blinks an eye, but mothers/mothers in law types seem to be interested in how many bikes I have! I have a bunch of kids bikes and a few in the shed which is not where I am living now and so never ride, like an old Schwinn tandem, a fix-ified Raleigh sprite, an old GT Avalanche MTB on loan to a friend, and in our basement but rarely used is a Dahon Boardwalk single speed guest bike. All I am really using right now is:
1. appaloosa - ride everywhere, do everything 2. Workcycles Fr8 - go anywhere around town with 1-3 kids. But I fantasize about a "gofast"(er than the Appaloosa) like an old UJB with good clearance, or a fancier low trail randonneur bike. I almost never make it to single track biking, but I also fantasize about having a bike to do that with, nothing out of this world, but like a 1x10 650b bike with 3" tires. After having so many kids bikes in 12", 16", 20", 24", 26" and 700 and trying them to make them either like my appaloosa or like the racy bikes they want, I have concluded that going forward the most practical thing for middle schoolers and up is a "monster cross" type cross bike that can take 45mm tires and drop bars and go anywhere. But that might be another thread: "how to keep your kids to one bike per kid"! Edwin On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8:41:20 AM UTC-5, Jim S. wrote: > > This is an interesting question. I have a wife and 5 kids. In our garage > there are, I dunno, 20 bikes or so. The kids all have 2, and there are a > couple that are in-between kids. My wife and I each have 4, plus there's a > Brompton. Hell, I guess there must be more than 20. > > With that said, I frequently get questions like this: (from crabby > mother-in-law and also visitors to our back yard who can see into the > garage) "How many bikes do you have?" with a tone suggesting that having a > garage full of bikes is somehow inappropriate for some reason. > > In response, I feel a need to understate the number of our bikes. > > Upon reflection, I'm not sure why I feel this way. Maybe it's my own > insecurity. > > But there are many other items one might own that no one would question - > i.e., a $70,000 SUV for instance. > > > On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 10:24:18 AM UTC-5, Bob K. wrote: >> >> Hey Folks: >> >> I know threads somewhat similar to this pop up every now and again, but >> Ryan's question to Eric in the Rivendell Road SOLD thread made me wonder >> how folks settle on their stable size. I fall squarely in the minimalist >> camp, but I'm guessing others here probably don't. So: >> >> 1. How do you settle on what N equals for you? (N+1, I know, I know...) >> 2. What bikes do you currently own/have in regular rotation and why do >> you own them? >> >> My stable is currently at one because of a recent sale, but it will >> (soon) bump back up to two. I settled on two as the acceptable number of >> bikes for a number of reasons, but mostly because I can't imagine riding >> enough to justify having any more of them. We also don't have the space for >> me to store any additional bikes aside from in a somewhat humid basement, >> and neither my wife nor myself would appreciate more bikes in the corner of >> the living room as we're not big fans of clutter, especially clutter that >> doesn't get used very often. >> >> Current Stable: >> >> 1. 2009 Sam Hillborne (canti): Used mostly for road riding and touring >> and some occasional single track and forest roads if the ride >> allows/inspires it. >> >> 2. 2017 Surly Troll: I settled on the new Troll after a lengthy >> flirtation with the idea of buying a Crust Evasion and other bikes as well. >> I decided the Troll is better for my needs for a number of reasons: the >> geometry readily accepts a Jones H-Bar, 2x is easy vs. not doable at all >> with the Evasion, and my desired 26x3.0 setup doesn't require the need for >> expensive cranksets. It's also $300 cheaper and I like the maroon better >> than the also admittedly pretty Evasion color. It will take the place of my >> erstwhile Krampus as my mountain bike, off-road tourer, long distance >> tourer (if/when I get to do that!), kid trailer, and stuff hauler. >> >> How about you? >> >> Bob K. in Baltimore >> >> -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
