I haven't purchased a bike in a couple years now but for me its always been about how the bike looks. If it doesn't meet my narrow definition of cool then no matter how awesome the bike I'm not interested. For me this means steel, classic road bike geometry, old school components, and graphics/colors/names that mesh with my brain. Vintage 60s/70's road bikes?...YES! Classic Riv roads/Rambo/Bleriot/Saluki/Legolas...YES! I kind of dig the H.Homers and the Roadeos, etc. but I just can't get past the names so they aren't in my garage. I also can't get past disc brakes, brifters, upright bars, and funky designs...I kind of like looking at them but I just don't want them. I went bonkers for about ten years but I'm pretty happy now. Here's what I have in order from what gets the most mileage.
1. Bleriot - awesome. I ride this bike all the time and if forced to pick one this is it. 2. 77 Trek - Many miles the past couple years 3. 74 Hetchins - sunny day road bike. A visual of what I like?...this is it. 4. Rock Combo - my mountain\snow\deluge bike 5. 01 Riv custom - sunny day, long distance rider (haven't ridden this in months!) 6. 71 Paramount - I love this bike but haven't ridden it for awhile. 7. 79 Austro Daimler - recently converted to 650b...should be moving up the list soon. 8. 72 PX-10 - Hibernating in the crawl space. A few pics here.... On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 8:24:18 AM UTC-7, 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.
