I'm a once a week kind of a guy...you?

[Anthony]

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?

 

[JustKev]

In my experience, employees go sick alot. Employers still go to work when they feel unwell (but just spend most of the day surfing the 'net and not working!)

As for buying stuff I decided on Monday I'm not buying anything else. I'm going to be a seller this year as have hoarded way too much kit I don't need.

Although if a ........ becomes available who knows

 

[Pickle]

(but just spend most of the day surfing the 'net and not working!)

Nobody ever does that....do they?!


What?



Me?



Never!

 

[Pickle]

I think in summery, we all really need to get out more......

"Out more" as in Outside? Actually, I'm not feeling too well, might have to go home

I was meaning as in we could be viewed a geeks by other people!! A lot of peeps in my office, and friends for that matter to, just dont understand....... :roll:

 

[Anthony]

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 hope your wife doesn't resemble mine in any respect, but a point about wives in general is that while wives may wish to attribute feelings of low esteem to mountainbiking, there is surely far more justice in mountain bikers attributing feelings of low esteem to their wives.

 

[Dhphat]

I need to get closure. Every purchase tells me 'this is it, this is finallly done'.

But it's not.

It never is is it?

Anyway, I've narrowed it down to one mission a week.

What are you up/ down to?

you'll never catch the dragon!!

 

[neilll]

Interesting comment Dr S made about now being able to buy all the bits he could'nt afford when he was younger, am i right in thinking most Retrobikers are like this ?

Erm...yes (for me anyway...). Back in 1991 I used to to stare longingly at the Funk adverts in MBA...in 1992 I walked into Klimbhigh Cycles in Daventry and specced up a fully 'boutiqued' Rocky Mountain Cirrus....got the quote back for around £3000 :shock:

Had an expensive girlfriend and a crappy job at the time....woosh went that idea. Came into some money a few years later and bought a brand new Pace RC200....that was it until October 2007 when I found this site....

My signature tells the rest of the story...........so far

 

[kanerdog1x1]

sack her, get a younger model thats really pleasing to the eye, and is interested in coming to work. job done.

 

[neilll]

sack her, get a younger model thats really pleasing to the eye, and is interested in coming to work. job done.

She got sacked years ago