That's still quite an impressive list to chose from Clubby
I am a bit similar to Clubby in that I build mine to ride, though saying that there are most likely a few crossovers in the road department. This side of things there are a couple of frames that all do the same thing but won't be sold. I do tend to only have my Merckx and one other frame built up ie; it will be either the Mercian or Jack Taylor, though again I suppose this is a specific use as the Merckx is a racer where as the Mercian and Taylor are randonneur builds. These builds are all long term slow builds and so don't take too much financially. The only thing that has taken an investment the last few years has been the Big Dummy, it was a bargain and a great buy but a decent hit in one go for us, otherwise it is all ways frames built up slowly as time and money allows.
My background and history mean that I come to the retro thing from the road side mainly and that's what I prefer building and riding at this point but it has been pretty stable for a long while. An air of contentment in the stable for a while now with a couple of projects ongoing but these are all to do with one build and are small jobs. The off road side of things while I still have a couple of Stumpy frames in the loft I am not at this point inclined to put them back together anytime soon. I have been really happy the last few years riding my 1X1 and Pugsley off road and basically my 1X1 is just a 94 Stumpy with disc brakes.
So most things in my stable that are built do have a specific purpose/use and then there are a couple of frames. Cleared a lot of the stuff that was just collecting in the loft a good couple of years back, there's still spares boxes but they are much more sorted and are stuff that I will use.
Pretty happy with my lot and the only time I get newbikeitus now is cyclocross season and I keep looking at those XLS at Planet X
I personally realise how lucky I am to be able to look out and have a choice of bikes to ride at this point in time.
Though the one caveat here is that Caleb keeps mentioning a tandem, and this is not something I put into his head as I just say he needs a new bigger bike in the spring, but he has this idea of a tandem, I think it's from the old couple up the road who ride past our place now and again. A nice classic steel tandem would of course be far preferable than one of those Viking ones off of ebay I'm sure
Though maybe the Dummy would have to go to finance that
The real question would be, if you could only have one bike out of your fleet, and have only that bike for the next four years, what one would it be?
(I will start a new thread for this I think)
I'm off for a ride
Jamie
