Building the same bike over and over and over

[Jones]

I was looking at my bikes today and wondering if anyone else feels like their building the same bike over and over again :?:

The trouble is I like a very specific type of mtb :? so all my builds tend to be 96 onwards steel hardtails from a very small group of brands :roll:

Then I looked at the three builds I've got on the go and their going in the same direction :?

Trouble is I know if I got something very different I wouldn't want to ride it :?

In a moment of desperation I even considered a Klein but it soon passed

Is it only me who plays it safe and sticks to what they know :?: I'd love a Fat but it would be another mid 90s steel hardtail :?

I think I'm just fed up because I wanted to have a good go at building one of my projects this afternoon but fell asleep after painting the house this morning

 

[DM]

On my 8th Kona hardtail; 7 steel, 1 ti; 3 of them are 3-bar Humu/Aha cruisers.
It's a sickness.

With the 3 cruisers, parts get swapped between them depending on the theme of the moment (BMX cruiser class, Klunker etc.). And I have something like 6 different single ring cranks to suit different variations on the cruiser builds. So yes, I am often "re-building the same bike over and over again".

Having typed that admission, it strikes me as quite odd behavior :?
Except to some people on this site, maybe

 

[kaiser]

Nothing wrong with that if thats what your trails need. If you build as a collector sure something different would be an idea but if your riding you seem to have found what you like

 

[jimihendrix]

I cant do that , if i have one steel rigid bike in my collection i find it hard to justify another (even though it'd be a different bike), was very tempted by a nice Explosif frame last week but could'nt because i have the Clockwork which is rigid steel and the Kona would have been rigid steel (would have built it with P2's) and would have done pretty much the same job as the Clockwork.

The ideal collection for me is a diverse one, alloy front suspension, alloy rigid, steel front suspension, steel rigid, full suss XC, maybe a Klunker and a DH full suss.

 

[PIGEON]

In my experience, If I have two bikes that are very much alike, I'll ride my favourite one of the two and never ride the other. I can't justify having two bikes that are made to do the same thing, that's why I sold my converted fixed wheel bike when I got a track bike and why I'm selling the Giant MCR and Marin Bear Valley, because I like my Vitus ZX-1 and Proflex 856 better.

 

[dbmtb]

Tell me about it....

Ti-glides on 3 bikes and Pro IIs on another.
Renthal bars, USE seatposts and Royce BBs on 2 bikes
Middleburns on 3 bikes
Pace forks on 5 bikes ( )
Thomson seatposts on 4 bikes
Campag record on 3 bikes

 

[Harryburgundy]

True.same old same old...when you already have perfection..or near enough

 

[MikeD]

I'm constantly battling to keep the fleet sufficiently diverse to justify keeping them all. Very easy for everything to converge. Lighten up a heavy bike, beef up a lightweight and suddenly you've got two middleweights ;-)

 

[WD Pro]

Nope

I have two retro mtb's, both completely different with regards to frame material (steel / alloy), style (rigid / full sus), group (735 / 970), post & bars (ti / carbon), colour schemes etc

The only thing similar is a flite, but one is standard and one is a transalp

 

[clockworkgazz]

I have tried to get a good mix, you can always tinker/swap with each type but the same bike x9 would be dull and soul destroying for me.