indyfabz

Pack Rats (Wood Rats) are cute, but they like to gnaw on car engine electrical wires.

canklecat

Five: two hybrids (one aluminum, the other steel); three road bikes (one steel, my only real keeper; two carbon fiber, which I like but don't need).

Trying to pare down to four, or replace my first bike -- a heavy comfort hybrid -- with something better suited to gravel and our increasingly terrible paved roads. I thought I'd found a home for the comfort hybrid last year, gave it to a guy who seemed to need it, but week or so later I found it disassembled and tossed behind the dumpster. He only kept the rear rack. So I'll reassemble it and find someone else who'll actually use it. I didn't fuss at the guy, he's okay but kinda eccentric, not sure all his tees are dotted and eyes are crossed. I suppose I should have charged a nominal fee, like $20, so he'd have felt more invested in the bike.

I suppose I could convert the other hybrid to a gravel bike. It's an early '90s Univega, one of their MTB-lite models that nowadays would be called a hybrid. I just haven't been motivated to do the conversion from swept to drop bar, replace the brake setup, etc.

Only problem with my three road bikes is they're basically minor variations of the same thing -- old school race geometry, won't take tires wider than 700x25. Most of our formerly smooth asphalt blacktopped roads have been replaced with coarse chipseal, even in suburbs. Terrible stuff. Supple 700x25 tires and latex tubes help some, but 700x28 or wider would be better.

The lighter weight of the carbon bikes isn't a big deal in my area since we don't have any mountains. Lots of rollers,short, steep hills with double digit grades, but mostly stuff you can sprint up in 30 seconds, then downhill... then up... down... lather, rinse, repeat. My average speed overall and on Strava segments is pretty much the same on all three bikes. I'm tempted to swap the 2014 carbon bike for a gravel bike, but the frame was a gift from a friend and I wouldn't feel right about swapping. And it's fun to ride.

TBH, I could get rid of all but the 1980s steel road bike and be satisfied. That bike just hits my sweet spot.

PeteHski

Just the 2 for me. 1 road & 1 mtb. I could maybe justify a second road bike so I would always have one to ride if the other was being serviced etc. I don't see much point in having half a dozen or more bikes like some people appear to do. I would only ride my favourite ones anyway. I have no use for hybrids, gravel bikes or TT bikes. I'm either road riding or hitting the mtb trails. Nothing in-between.

Pizzaiolo Americano 

Not enough...

seypat

More than a few.

easyupbug 

24 currently, I don't have a storage problem, but as I posted over on 50+:

Now 70 I have been raising bars over the last year. Gonna get down from 20+ to nearly 10 due to not being able to bear to stick tall stems on my Italians....

Oldguyonoldbike

Four road bikes.

TMonk

2 road, 1 track, 1 MTB, 1 TT, 1 fixie road bike

Mojo31

Wife and I each have a road bike and flat bar road/hybrid bike. We also have a recumbent stationary bike and a Kickr Bike. No room for any more than that.

While I may have "wants", that is all that I "need."

Riveting

4: Road, MTB, Commuter, Gravel.
75% are aluminum, 75% are 11spd, 25% are carbon, 50% are hydro disc, 25% are electric, 25% are Di2, 100% put a smile on my face.

Broctoon

Let's see, I've recently sold or donated a few, but my fleet currently consists of the following five bikes:

- Steel frame/carbon fork 2x11 road bike (Cinelli Vigorelli Road)
- Aluminum frame/carbon fork fixed gear, almost a track bike but with a front brake (Cinelli/Mash Parallax)
- All steel fixed gear city bike (Surly Steamroller)
- All steel 3-speed Frankenbike--old road bike converted to IGH and riser bar (Takara)
- All steel single speed, sort of like a CX/gravel bike, but with a flat bar (All City Nature Boy Disc)

I listed them in order of my favorites, sort of. Picking a true favorite is about like trying to pick the favorite of my four children. But they're ordered according to the attention and ride time I've given each of them lately, or just my current fondness for them.


Also under my care are these two:

-My wife's aluminum frame/carbon fork 3x9 hybrid
-An old steel mountain bike, now set up more like a hybrid or city bike, for my son

There's often one or two more in the garage getting worked on or staying with us temporarily, bikes belonging to friends or other family members I help from time to time.

sshakari

Not enough and always want more.

2 road bikes - Canyon Endurace, vintage Merckx
2 single speed bikes - Cinelli Vigoralli, Pure Fix
1 paleton - stationary.

hose

3 i like-
and 1 which is the back up of the back up of the back up

aliasfox

Nearly 3:
- 2006 Bianchi Vigorelli is my West Coast bike. Lives at my sister's. Pre-COVID, I'd go out there three-four times a year for a week per trip, and it was nice to be able to get around/go riding without having to rent a car or a bike. I've missed this bike a lot in the past 15 months... might head out that way in the fall/winter if the pandemic stays under control.

- 2019 Lynskey R270. This is my East Coast, all-weather bike - I think of her as my P-61 Black Widow. Corrosion-proof titanium, hydraulic discs, and a wide cassette means the next time I sign up for a ride and it ends up drizzling the entire time, well, I'll have a bike to handle it. Happened two out of three times I did the 5-Boro Bike Tour.

- 2016 Cannondale CAAD8. Currently being built. Bought the frame NOS, with a buildout including Campy Zonda wheels and Force 22 (rim brake). Expect to have her completed by around Labor Day, which means she'll likely be trainer mounted for the winter after a few shakedown cruises. With quick releases and no hydraulics to mess up, she'll be the east coast traveling bike, easily fitting in the trunk.

Next project will likely be my disassembled 1997 Trek 820 in my parents' basement - city commuter, maybe?

Gashouse

I have three road bikes.
One I like to ride.
One I do not like to ride but I have it anyway.
Another is a current project .
A fourth bike in my garage, a Matt Hoffman BMX bike, was left behind by my son.
The total was at one time six. Two bikes left the fold in the past year.

veganbikes

Too many but really not enough. I have some bikes I want to replace and some bikes I really just wanted to own but never really do much with them. I am generally quite a firm believe in N+1 but since I have bikes I don't really use and probably won't use and some bikes I like but don't love I could go down a few and upgrade a few but really I want more tools and better storage.

Kabuki12

I have about a dozen in my collection(vintage steel). I also have a couple that belong to my daughter and a couple of e bikes for my wife to ride. Most of my bikes get ridden regularly . If I find that the tires are getting soft , that's the one I ride next. I also have 3 frames that need building up with all the parts I have collected but I am riding too much right now and we really didn't have a winter in SoCal so maybe soon. I have only sold a couple of bikes in the last 40 years or so , and that was to fund another purchase . Storage isn't a problem yet , I have my own shop with bike racks . I visited a friend over the weekend and he had about twice what I have so it is all relative I guess.

Andy Somnifac 

Too many.

OldRailfan

Collectors and human pack rats are very closely related.

Hikebikerun

This thread is making me want to look for used bikes online… my collection is only at n=2.

I have my one road bike (Trek Emonda SL5) and a hybrid that I turned into a flat bar gravel bike (Felt Versa Speed 7). I’d like a TT/tri bike and a nice MTB but don’t have the space and can’t justify the cost right now.

NextDIYikeproj

1 road bike
1 TT BIKE
1 winter commuter bike

1 gravel bike (building in progress)
1 road bike (building will begin soon)

Plans to build a full suspension mtb in a near future.

Eric F 

More than I need.
Not as many as I would like.

chaadster

To the OP, the resolution to your space problem is obviously a folding bike or a minivelo! I’m lucky to have one each of those among my current 10 bikes.

My stable is determined by style and use:

1. stable, endurance-style Dedacciai Gladiatore 2 (road, carbon fiber)

2. short, steep, racy Breezer Venturi (road, steel)

3. spring/winter/rain Kinesis Racelight 4S (road, aluminum)

4. gravel T-Lab X3 (road, titanium)

5. utility/rando Breezer Doppler Cafe+ (flat bar touring, steel, 650b)

6. quick townie/casual event Tern Rally (flat bar road, steel)

7. festival/critical mass/freak-‘em-out Mercier Nano (minivelo road, steel, 20”)

8. travel (and ex-work) Dahon Mariner (flat bar folding, aluminum, 20”)

9. MTB (retro chic) DeKerf Team SL (steel, 26”)

10. cafe bike Motobecane Grand Jubilée (vintage flat bar road, steel)

For fun, one pic, of the minivelo. I dropped the kid off at camp on it this morning, and a woman said to me, “that’s a bizarre bike.” Mission accomplished!:

Nachoman

Road bike.
Back up bike.
Hybrid.
Tandem.
Folder.
.
Since the road bike is titanium and the back up bike is aluminum, I'm thinking I could pretty easily and justifiably add another carbon road bike to the quiver.

Clyde1820

How many? Two. One that's a bit large for me, but it'll get me around town. And another that fits beautifully, a rebuild of a mid-'90s MTB into a more-upright "city" bike.