My wife has informed me that my hobby has become a problem. I agreed with her but it seems to be for different reasons. Whilst she thinks I have too many bikes, I think we just don’t have enough storage space. This doesn’t include the 6-8 bikes in the garage and the barely noticeable 6-8 frames here in the picture🤦🏻♂️. Anybody have any spare stable space? 😅
by TheHulc
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Also, this wasn’t intended to be a humble brag as much as an “Ooh, I spy…”. I always enjoyed the “I spy”.
Yikes.
A few bikes ago
More than 7 bikes is definitely a problem 😂
That’s 20 bikes there, not 6 to 8. You’ve got a really bad problem here. I would help you out by taking that realtree(tm) diamondback off your hands, if I didn’t just waste all my money on an old AMP Research B4 Police Edition.
At one point I had 8 bikes in our living room in the first apartment my wife and I had after getting married. I had to keep coming up with ways to get them off the floor on racks and make sure they weren’t taking up space and blocking walkways.
Even though my wife also loved bikes and was patient, after some time, I realized it was ridiculous. I was never going to maintain or ride all of those bikes in the way they deserved to be used, so I started selling them.
Eventually I culled the fleet to three road bikes, a cruiser, and a mountain bike. These days I only have a mountain bike and a Mongoose Super Goose BMX that was my COVID cope and mid-life crisis toy.
Over the years some bikes have come and gone as we had kids, so ultimately we still have 1-2 bikes for each of us in a family of 5, but streamlining in those early years of our marriage went a long way in helping our relationship. And now the bikes live in the garage. 😆
Tell the wife your right and move on. You won’t win lol.
when your balls start to hurt
As they say, N+1 (or S-1).
You could hang some of the frames you really like and probably sell most of your bikes or donate them to a bike co-op or someone who really needs it instead of letting the components seize up, collect dust and rust. You really only need maybe 3-4 at most. A lot biking in my opinion is about minimalism and that collection seems like the opposite. You could probably keep 1 road bike, 1 mountain bike, 1 gravel, and 1 single speed at most and even thats a lot. I don’t know why you would need/want any more than that. I only have 3 bikes in my living room/possession. One is my wife’s mountain bike, the other is my fixed gear, and the other is an E-bike I’m selling/donating. I only want one bike and I’m perfectly fine with that. I hope you find a way to clear up some of that clutter and help some other people spark the passion of cycling. Good luck ✌🏻
I think you might be kind of a hoarder, dude
It becomes a problem if you can’t store them OR you don’t have time to ride them. If you have to think about which road bike or which full suspension bike to take out, you’ve entered problem territory.
About here seems right.
When you run out of room 😂
You have more bikes than my local bike shop does.
N+1 or S-1
The real problem is not a single wall mount!
After a lot of experimenting, horizontal layered storage has proven to be the most effective for me.
Maybe you can use that to convince your wife?
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According to my spouse it’s 2
Honestly, it becomes a problem when you realize that you are no longer riding some of the bikes, or specifically take a certain bike for a ride in an attempt to subconsciously justify keeping it.
Myself- I also have a problem, I’ve got like 12-ish bikes, and some frames, and parts I’ll probably never use.
Some overlap genres- for example I have three rigid 90’s MTB’s. I’ve decided to turn one into a resto-mod gravel bike and honestly, after finishing, it’ll be better on the road and for the light-duty off-roading I was doing with the other’s. Those two will likely be sold off. Three touring bikes isn’t necessary. Five road bikes is also unnecessary.
My own biggest problem is that I keep buying super cheap old bikes off Marketplace and never have the time to fix them all. But at this point, I literally feel nauseous when thinking about buying any more.
Meanwhile, I have two motorcycles I never ride anymore that need to be fixed and sold. And three cars, one of which is a project and another which could use work. But I don’t have the time because I keep digging myself deeper into a pile of cheap, non-functional bicycles.
Usually when you encounter some obsolete hub spacing rabbit hole, a special tool requirement, or a bizarro world press fit bearing that needs to be replaced. Then you got a problem…unless the eBay gods answer your prayers.
When it’s your collection: About 20 bikes ago.
When it’s my collection: Not for another 20 or so bikes.
You need to air out that Surly bro
It only ever becomes an issue when the women in our lives decide they don’t support us.
When you’ve ridden one bike, you gotta ride them ALL
No problem here. I like this dude.
Everyone here freaking out that you’re a hoarder or whatever, is probably shopping for a new sirvelo or ebike right now, or at the least, buying Paul shit and a 1x conversion to put on their $50 craigslist bike.
I think your pile is fine.
when it starts to look like your problem
like 5 bikes ago
I’m living on the edge , practically homeless but have touring off road bikes and a fat bike set up as a touring bike .
If i could just ride one and tow the other two .🤔
can i have that titanium one
Once you’re passionate