john m flores 

How many years have you been riding?
How many bikes have you owned/purchased?
What's the ratio?

I'll go first.
36 years
7 bikes
5.1 years per bike

I just ordered #8 which will bring the ratio to 4.5 years per bike.

shelbyfv

cool

freeranger

Without going back to ones I can't recall, I've had my LeMond road bike since 2006, and my GT mtb since 1996 (it's listed in my avatar as a 1998, but that's when the frame on it now was supplied-the orig frame was 2006, replaced by GT when I broke it. So, somewhat of a BIG ratio for me!! (and the wife also-same year road bike, her mtb is a 1998-Kona LavaDome). I've been riding most of my life--since was a small kid, before I was 6 and I'm 72.

squirtdad

24 inch balloon tire bike my dad rescued and fixed
26 in Coast to Coast mid weight schwinn clone
Columbia 3 speed
Azuki 10 speed (traveled to many ports when I was in the coast guard)
Schwinn trike for a delivery business at 14
Nishiki Olympic 12
Miyata 1400
Torpado Super strada
De Rosa
84 team miyata
85 team miyata
SR semi pro
Kirk custom

so 13 so far and all infinite smiles per mile

average per age between 2 and 10 somewhere....my brain tells me I am younger then the calendar does, the knees say the calendar is correct

Wildwood 

Riding as an adult since 1981, so 40+ years.
I have purchased 7 new bikes/framesets for myself.
But I caught the vintage contagion, too. That would add about another 32, +/-. Not counting a few as donors that were never built and ridden.
So, less than one for every 'cycling year'. Also bought for wife & kids, but those don't count.
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Been fun. Kept me out of trouble. No other expensive hobbies.
Down to a dozen roadies at present, 2 mountain bikes, 1 tandem.
I like variety. Still a few years left in the legs, too - so who knows when it stops.
I blame Seattle CL and BikeForums for the vintage thing.

60cm Europeans/British = What ya got? (not aluminum).
Crescent? Clive Stuart? Look? Favorit? Razesa? Zullo? ..... Others?

non-fixie 

Until I bought an old racing bike in '09 and landed on Bikeforums C&V, I'd owned 4 bikes since I got my first tricycle at the age of three. So, 11.25 ypb.

Since then I'm at 0.06 ypb.

Not sure if it means anything.

cranky old road 

6 bikes/ 56 years (or 7 bikes/ 62 years if the Raleigh Colt at 8yo counts). So 9.3 yrs/bike not counting the bikes I bought for the wife?

Atlas Shrugged

Way to many bikes to count since the late 70’s. With the exception of a decade or so in the late 1990’s I am sure I have averaged one bike per year rotating through, mountain, road, adventure etc. All bought new and then sold once new bike arrived. Presently have 7 bikes, 3 of which are C&V and never ridden. Remaining in active use are fixie with Copenhagen wheel, endurance road, gravel, steel adventure rig. Reflecting on my life’s expenses probably the best money I spent.

Steve B.

21 bikes in 34 years. I currently own and ride 5

jaxgtr

Many Bikes\ Many Years = Lots per years. However, over the last 20 years as technology really changing, I tended to change bikes more often, however, over the last few years, the amount of change reduce my need to change unless something fell into my lap and I could not pass it up.

CrimsonEclipse

If tricycles count, I went through a Big Wheel plastic trike every 3-5 months for years.

I count 18 that I used and not counting probably 10 more that I built up and gave away.

Roughly 1 every 4 years. I ride them now until the frame turns to dust.

Down to 4 now.

I don't know what to do with this data.....

79pmooney

Starting at age 13 when I bought my first 10 speed:

14 bikes. 3 were bought new. 3 are custom frames.

57 years, so 4.1 years/bike. (Pretty meaningless number. One bike, my '79 Mooney has more than 1/5th of all my riding and 3 others are in the 20k+ club.)

Owned now: 6 bikes, the three customs and 3 frames picked up used/

tkamd73 

60 years, 13 bikes, 4.6 years per bike.
Tim

SoSmellyAir

Counting only my adulthood, ~ 8 years, 4 bikes, including the CAAD4 that is still slowly being built (because I can use it as a balance bike!?) so about a bike every 2 years.

jgwilliams

What constitutes a new bike? I've been cycling over 50 years and still have a bike that I bought in 1972 or 1974 (I've lost track). The frame is the original although I had it adapted to take modern components and 700c wheels about 25 years ago. I also broke my first carbon bike in a crash. I replaced the frame, but the rest of the bike was the same. So over that time I've had either 4 or 6 road bikes, depending how you count. I've also started mountain biking and so had two mountain bikes as well.

staehpj1

I can't keep track, but there are enough and my memory bad enough that I invariably forget a few. Counting only those from my late teens on... I'll guess 15 bikes over 54 years for 3.6 years per bike. I am most likely forgetting a few bikes though. It could be more like 54/20 for 2.6 years per bike.

Edited to add that before that I probably had way more bikes between the age where I learned to ride and I turned 18 or so and started the count above. Given that we had lots of old bike frames and parts around from my parents and 4 older brothers and I swapped and scrounged where I could, I wouldn't be surprised if the number wouldn't be better measured in months instead of years for that period. I liked to build up bikes from whatever junk we had around.

PhilFo 

Been riding since I was 4 years old, so that's one month shy of 43 years.
Number of bikes? That's going to be harder. I'm pretty sure it's 24 bicycles.
The ratio has to have some time periods built into it for me, as it's only been this last several years that I've owned more than 1 or 2 at a time. 2 bikes per every 3.5 years overall.
By the end of this year it'll probably be 25 and by next summer, 26.

BobbyG

I bought my first bike as an adult in 1986 (Schwinn Cruiser Supreme Hybrid) at age 24.
Started commuting with it in 1992.

Bought an old bike (1960s Schwinn Continental) to learn basic mechanical work, but I don't really count that one...lasted about a year.

Replaced 1986 bike in 1997. (Nishiki Blazer MTB)

Acquired a 1984 Nishiki Internation 12-speed in 2009.

Bought a new Charge Plug 4 in 2015

In 2021 I bought a 2007 DaHon Boardwalk 20-inch folder

In 2022 I bought a 2006 Felt F-65.

Thirty-seven years, 6 bikes equals 6.1 bikes a year.

mrodgers

9 years and 1 bike.

I'm not including the Walmart bike purchased to ride a mile on the trail when I was teaching the kids how to ride a bike. Only including when I started riding myself for exercise.