No more bikes! Buy's another bike. Share your shame thread

[t wild]

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Two months ago I bought my daughter a new bike. I was riding on the front with her on my gt performer and she said why are you riding a kids bike :facepalm:
That night bought a gt timberline 1994 ish vintage. I had an outpost in 97 and this was cheap and close. Then I got offered a specialized rockhopper comp a1 fs. The bike I wanted in 98 which was cheap but the manitous were frozen. So I bought a new ish Carrera with a set of rockshox to put on the rockhopper to get it rolling.
Then I got a kona fire mountain frame with a few bits on to rebuild the carrera parts on to and sell.

Then for no reason I bought a rough 93 lava dome with xt parts on.
No reason just liked it.
Now I'm bidding on bits on eBay and I'm watching another bike I don't need but want to build the xt parts on to. But then I will have the leftovers. I've already got a couple of spare sets of wheels.
All this in two months :shock:

I'm not new to this terrible addiction as I'm a seven years clean reformed bikeaholic but i think I'm just addicted to bikeahol.
It's never going to end and I might as well embrace it

 

[M-Power]

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100% No more retrobikes for my collection, only modern next.

 

[al]

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One bike's enough for anyone.


Only a fool would just keep buying old tat and spend countless hours and lots of their hard earned money repainting, refurbishing and rebuilding them!



al.

 

[legrandefromage]

Nearly finished another bit of old tat today. Some Spanish built oily stuff.

Columbus dropouts, I was quite happy with that!

Just got to sort out the chain line with a narrower axle

 

[shedobits]

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A couple of months ago I bought a frame to use up some parts. You know what's coming next don't you? Yup I just had to upgrade it and now I'm getting a collection of parts that'll need yet another frame to use up. :roll:

 

[Joe_Rides]

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Quite amusingly I embrace the idea of having that "one bike does everything", like when you visit a sleepy village in middle England and see an older gentleman trundling to the butchers shop on a 1960's Dawes which he probably had from new. I don't like shiny high-end stuff....it's the forgotten, well used stuff that appeals to me.

Only problem is my bikes stay in pretty good condition because I tend to rotate their use dependant on the type of riding I'm doing, not to mention I like spending time in my workshop tinkering with them!

And then I find another beat-up (or 'Patinated' if you're hip) bike on gumtree/ebay/charity shop/car boot and start romanticising all over again......................

Hence buying another frameset last week

 

[M-Power]

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A couple of months ago I bought a frame to use up some parts. You know what's coming next don't you? Yup I just had to upgrade it and now I'm getting a collection of parts that'll need yet another frame to use up. :roll:

One bike :shock: Now that is enlightenment ! Biggest mistake i can make, is to stick one upgrade bit of M730 XT on a bike....then it starts again....

 

[The History Man]

I haven't bought a bike since NOVEMBER :shock:

 

[Once A Hero]

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I've nearly got all the parts for all of my bikes. :shock:
I'm genuinely concerned as to what will happen after that. :shock:
Maybe I'll have to start riding them :shock:

 

[legrandefromage]

Just about finished a bike last night, now looking for better parts for it having sold a set of 9spd STi, yes, you guessed it, I'll be looking for a set of 8/9 or 10 speed STI...

:facepalm:

Help.