Originally Posted by
jdawginsc
Whats a zero bike?
A zero bike is a bike you own, but resides someplace other than your personal residence. It may be staying permanently with a friend, who keeps it on hand for those occasions you show up with all your riding gear with the exception of the bike itself. One bike, the Alpina, stayed with a buddy in WA, the other, the Casati, was dropped off in OR with Mark, the 'Bike Butcher of Portland'. He promised he wouldn't do any further modification to it while in his possession
The zero moniker serves to denote that a bike of this type counts neither for nor against any collector basing his/her/its collection on the N+1 rule.
gugie could probably explain it better, or at least with more detail as I believe he coined the term?
DD