I've done a fair amount of catch and release over the past dozen years or so (whereas 12+ years ago I was a one bike guy) and have been trying to get the bike stable down to the fewest bikes possible while also being able to satisfy all of my biking interests. I'm currently at:
1. Touring/Allroad/Weekender/Rando ride: Sam Hillborne, soon to be replaced with an All City Space Horse Disc 2. Off-road Touring/Rough stuff: Surly Troll 3. Commuter: Breezer Belway (belt drive, IGH) 4. Cruiser: Rosco Bubbe v2 5. Family: Bike Friday Family Tandem I could do without the Rosco, that's just an indulgence. The commuter isn't necessary but belt drive/IGH makes for a nice minimal maintenance bike. I mostly use the Troll for reasonably worn or groomed trail riding, where just about any other bike in the stable could work, but I like to be able to veer off of the well traveled path on occasion. The family tandem shouldn't count, that's straight family fun with my daughters. I guess I could get down to 3 bikes, including the tandem. My stable has been as many as 8 or 9 bikes and that just felt unwieldy - at that many bikes there's too many bikes that just don't get attention that someone else may give them. I'm not interested in museum pieces that can only come out for a slow ride around the driveway on Sundays, so that attitude informs my catch rate as well. -Jeff Silver Spring, MD On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Robert Keal <bobk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome responses, folks! > > While I firmly believe that my n=2, if I were to add a bike, it would most > definitely be a tandem. I planned to buy a 26" wheeled mtb Burly Rock and > Roll off a friend who bought a HHH tandem, but in the end I couldn't > justify it. Pretty bummed about that, but I'm sure another opportunity to > own a tandem will present itself down the road. And when we move away from > my school's campus and back to the city, a cargo bike will be extremely > tempting... > > 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. > -- 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.
