Poll: How bikes do you own?

Bikes
21

i actually need to adjust my 2 to 3 based on the above rulings

22

5 I ride regularly, as in some weeks I’ll ride all 5. +2 slow motion project bikes I expect to have complete by 2022.

23

My count is 8 but that is the household count for me and my wife.

2 tandems (counted as 1 each)
My MTB
My Commuter
My road/gravgrav
frame with enough parts to build up
her cruiser
her trainer bike

She always says that we have too many bikes but I disagree.

24

I was solidly into double digits when we had a basement, but alas no longer.

25
  1. Ritchey P29er hardtail
  2. Niner Rip 9
  3. Redline Monocog mullet SS
  4. Fuji Wendigo fatbiek
  5. Endpoint Coffee Grinder 650b
  6. Titan Star rando fop build
  7. Breezer Finesse super townie
  8. Scattante road bike for roller riding
  9. Ritchey Logic SS needs front tire
26

Is it funny that there is a poll but everyone posts how many they have anyway?

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27

I had to to get the count right. They shift around in my brain mists.

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28

The lists are mental/emotional reckoning while the poll is for science.

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29

There are too many cases where I feel like I have to defend how many bikes we own. I should know that this is a safe space to talk about how many bikes we onw.

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30

Nobody gets to the end of their life wishing they’d enjoyed bikes less.

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31

OK, if tandems count as 2 I’m going from 5 to 6.

Basket dyno poogeot
Kona honzo
Ibis HD3
Coffee grinder
Ibis Cousin It (captain)
Ibis Cousin It (stoker)

Also in the dungeon:
Father in laws Giant Defy
Mother in laws internet bike company hybrid
Brother in laws Schwinn Paramount.

I could probably build up all three of the frames in the side yard into complete functional bicycles with nothing but my parts bin, but I’m not counting those. Hopefully they’ll be donated soon. I miss living near the hood where I could leave bike junk on the corner and it’s gone in hours.

32

So what percentage of us actually undercounted then realized they had more when reading comments?

I said 11 but I’m a solid baker’s dozen. At least until I look around the house some more.

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33

I think it is a 59

34

Orly?

35

Yeah, this definitely wasn’t intended as a shaming/flex exercise … more of a general curiosity. I sincerely wish I hadn’t added the hoarder comment to the poll.

36

I didn’t read into the hoarder comment at al for what it’s worth.

37

The more I read about the particular reasons other people own particular bikes, the more faith I have in humanity/my own sanity.

38

Teledyne? Like the aeronautics instrumentation manufacturer?

39

I have too many bikes that aren’t being used, but given a lack of need for the small amount of money they would bring or the space they’re taking up vs being able to use them once in a blue moon I CBF doing anything about it.

emotional reckoning in rough order of ‘should I keep it’:

Shared:

  • e-cargo

For sup

For sale

Plus some random spare wheels and tubs of parts, but no spare frames.

I’ll call that 14 by counting the tandem as one (2 wheels = 1 bike)

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40

yeah for what its worth i think that should apply to everything over three