How many different Types of bikes do you have ?

[M-Power]

All mine are old school retro CX bikes. I had a cheap hack bike but I ended up not using it. Then I bought a duplicate of my favourite steel bike as a general purpose rider. Someone tried to steal it in Cambridge city when I went for lunch, so I decided to let it go, as it was too valuable to loose. Surprisingly thieves still target old canti style bikes.

So how many different types of bikes do you have and do you really need them ? :?

 

[clubby]

Retro hardtail, retro full sus, 29er, 650b plus, fat bike, 650b full sus, carbon (summer, i.e. two days a year) road bike and steel (winter, 363 days a year) road bike (disk brakes and full mud guards).

Don't need them all, but life's too short to worry about that. Carbon road bike only used in summer as it's too nice to take out in bad weather, plus deep rims are not much fun in windy weather. Retro full sus (GT STS) I've had from new and only comes out once a year and is more of a garage queen. The rest I use depending on mood, and where and who I'm riding with. Retro hasn't seen much use this year as I'm preferring my modern bikes just now.

 

[M-Power]

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I now realise i'm a complete lightweight

 

[jimo746]

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Erm.... retro mtb (used a handful of times a year), modern-ish 100mm travel full-sus mtb (used now & then), "Gravel" bike (used the most, on & off road).

Tbh I could live with just the gravel type bike, but I'd really miss the mtb (old or new).
This is the least amount of bikes I've had for several years!

 

[Jamis Diablo]

Retro steel MTB, retro Ti MTB, retro steel road, steel 29'er HT (Kona Honzo), alloy 29'er fully (Banshee Prime), so pretty much the whole spectrum except DH.

 

[brocklanders023]

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120/110mm modern, slack fs 29er, 140mm modern aggressive ht, decent quality mint condition retro rigid, 2x low/mid original condition retro rigid.

Did have a retro fs project, modernish 26" ht and drop bar cross bike earlier this year but all have moved on.

 

[ishaw]

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Too many:

Retro ti rigid, xtr, rc31, Paul's and ti all over
Retro ti hard tail, full xtr, pace evo ti
Retro ti full sus (in a box, amp front and rear)
Retro STS with fox air rear and front, full m970, spinergy
Retro STS 100 DS with fox air rear, world cup Reba front, spins and full xt m77x
Retro team RTS full xtr, avid ultimate, crossmax ceramic and rs sid world cup 32mm v brake forks
Modern steel 853 with xo, spinergy and Reba
Carbon 29er, xo, sids, dropper
Cannondale road bike with di2
Folding airnimal Joey, xtr, hope and customer pace 24 inch forks
Modern macmahone, 10 speed xt, Reba, race Face and ritchey wcs
Dmr rhythm 24 inch, sram x9 and fox forks (built for my wife)

And a few projects (mini retro ti, specialised s works enduro, stumpjumper, nuke proof reactor)

Which do I ride? Mostly the 29er. I was initially appalled at how ugly big wheeled bikes looked but they ride well. The steel 853 gets outings as well. Never ridden the road bike (shame) but I will once I get over looking a tool in tight lycra. The ti rigid gets some use, though need to replace a rim. Joey was ridden when I commuted but not for some time now. The rest gather dust which I must rectify, though the RTS team is a keeper.

 

[KermitGKona88]

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MTB

85'/86' slack rigid steel
90'/91' semi-slack rigid steel
91' classic rigid aluminium (possibly for sale)
93' classic rigid steel
93'/94' race rigid steel
99' classic rigid steel (project)
2010 semi-slack rigid steel (project)

Road (project)

86' touring 531 steel

Others for sale too :facepalm:

I do see a pattern emerging :facepalm:

Ride hell no I don't ride :shock: :facepalm:

 

[T'boo Ted]

I have a newish caron road bike, a newish 650b carbon/aluminium FS bike, 4 HT: 2 aluminium, 1 Ti, 1 steel.
All I NEED is road bike and 1 HT.
Road bike is for roading
If Im riding an easy-ish trail I take the Ti HT (not that it can't ride all the trails I ride, just not as good as its my main retro bike (v's, short travel, stretched out geo, great for climbing though)
1 Alu HT is spare bike for loaning or whatever and steel HT is ye oldie retro bike
1 alu HT that is my superbike, when I want to push hard this is the bike, handles great and is so agile
FS bike is comfortable, it's taken a while to get used to and after 2 years I'm only getting to where I push the bike and it's now overall more useful than my alu superbike... but it's still more plow through than finesse a line.

 

[M-Power]

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Chapeau gents A ludite I truly am :|

Lets put it this way, all those bikes will be retro at some point, so Retrobikes future should be assured !