ededwards":kaytypjz said:About two years ago I completed my 'quiver' of five bikes and was replete - geared roadbike? Check. SS roadbike? Yep. Geared mountainbike? Of course. SS mountainbike? Naturally. And finally a cross bike. All bikes up and running and right size so I could relax in the knowledge that I wouldn't need another bike for many years.
Fast forward two years and I have a 13th bike held up in Customs. I'm not sure what happened but I am continually, daily buying various bits, dreaming up new configurations of what I've got. I often buy things and have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with them (9 speed Dura Ace STIs being just one recent example).
Then about 9 months ago my wife said that low self esteem was the reason why I had so many bikes. I went for a long run and returned feeling really bad, so bad that I went straight upstairs, logged on and bought my first Yo.
I have decreed this year that I will ride more, fettle less and that, for space reasons, it has to be one out and one in. But then again I could always hang a few bikes from the rafters and there was that rather sweet frame I saw the other day.........
As Diana Ross once sung, "If there's a cure for this I don't want it"
There's no need for any guilt. If you were a collector of egg cups, you would have several hundred and no qualms about it. The fact that you couldn't use them all simultaneously would be completely irrelevant. The only adverse factor in collecting mountainbikes is their size, functional 'need' doesn't come into it. So surely hanging bikes from the rafters is absolutely the way to go?