[Closed] 3 bikes to do it all?

If I didn't have the Amazon, I reckon the Fargo would do my touring/softroading/bikepacking roles - so two bikes into one. That would just leave the carbon road bike and the Blur XC.

And the fatbike. 🙂

I'm trying to do the same! Thinking of keeping the carbon trail bike, 26 hardtail, and the road bike.

What about you're 3?

Well, if I was three, I'd have a balance bike, probably. 😉

Three bikes? Hmmm.

Road bike, 4" travel HT and an Enduro for playtime. I reckon.

Your always thinking of the next bike

1. SS rigid 29er
2. Fixed-wheel road bike for commuting
3. Race bike

But then I [i]need [/i] a Brompton for mixed-mode long distance commuting, tandem for kiddies, winter road bike...

And my stable was thoroughly trimmed without my approval 🙁

3? I can narrow to 5?

Big fs
120mm xc ish fs
Commuter
Nice road bike
Wildcard (a jump bike/fat bike/trials bike/36er/whatever my currrent whim is bike. But only one at a time.)

Just need the XC and nice roadie, and I'm done 🙂

1. Race bike (road)
2. Road bike for training, commuting and poor weather.
3. Cotic soul for off road fun and general dad duties.

In fact, that's the 3 i have and other than the need for shiny upgrades, that's been me content for about 5 years now. Your experience may differ*.

*The obligatory asshat clause.

Carbon road bike
Ti hard tail 26er
Steel SS ht
ASR5

I do have an urge for a well priced 29er, for fun. Something like a Kona Honza, Kinesis ff29, or Salsa el Mariachi. I will be seeing be what the bike shows offers are in this regard on Friday. 🙂

Big FS
C456
Rigid SS

Currently running 3

-BTwin road hack
-Cotic BFe
-Twenty Tzar BMX

In reality, I could probably get rid of the BMX. It's not been out since the park became inundated with small people on scooters. That said, it would be replaced by a proper DH bike.

road bike
456 (150mm Fork)
Heckler
Downhill bike
(4 is close to 3)

My 3 would be a nice Ragley Ti, a blur LTc or a mojo HD and an evil undead.

Currently my 3 are :-

Stumpjumper
Enduro
Stinky

😀

My 3 are a 05 Giant nrs 100mm travel full sus for xc
05 spesh enduro for messing about on & alpine holidays
2010 spesh allez for road & turbo training.
I fancy a cx bike next so I think 4's the magic number 😀

I need to have a cull.

On One Ti CX is going to be replaced by a Fargo.

Wasn't that painful after all. Thank you Doctor.

Charge Tap for road plugging
Evil Soveregn for winter and messing about
Giant TranceX for swallowing up big rides
Crappy flat barred road singlespeed for town

Oh that's 4. Sorry.

I have, and just cannot seem to cut it down:
1. My Sanderson Breath
2. mrs_oab's Cannondale F900SL
3. oab_1's Islabike
4. oab_2's Scott
5. oab_3's wee Kona

hmmmm, how do we reduce it...

If I really had to stick with only 3 my list would look like this.

1. Carbon CX with extra set of road wheels.
2. Cotic soul. with a 1x10 set up and an extra back wheel to run SS
5. Orange Five.

Trouble is I will always be above 3 due to sentimental reasons.

(starts looking for a Carbon CX bike)

At the moment I have
Giant reign
Giant anthem 29er
Kona unit 29er ss
Still want downhill rig

I think 4 is the magic number, although five is about to come along taking bits off four.

Ti road bike
CX
26er hardtail
Enduro (an old 132mm travel one)

Enduro is going, transmission and brakes onto a 29er, forks and front wheel onto the hardtail to beef it up a bit...

1. Hard tail short travel 29er
2. Full sus, possibly trek fuel ex or spesh camber
3. Cyclocross bike. Caddx disc, or spesh crux

...oh and a set of road tyres for the crosser

Job done 😀

Cheezpleez - Member
Big FS
C456
Rigid SS

Think I'd go along the same lines;

1= Fun
2= Sensible fun
3= Practical fun

while I own a road bike it'd have to come in 4th place after the MTBs really...

Ibis Mojo
Trek Alu road bike with 105

Sensible, and does commuting, the odd races, big road ride, big mountain days in Scotland.

I don't need any more than two 🙂

Had these

Cube LItening Super HPC Race - race and summer roady
Forme Hiver CX/winter road - commuter, training everything in between
Carbon 456 - MTB, local woods, trail centres.

Sold the MTB as i dont have time or inclination to drive in order to ride the mtb

I'm there:

1. Solaris - all UK MTB duties
2. Pro6 - commute, winter, other
3. Tarmac - MAMIL action

Will hire a bike on the rare occasions the Solaris isn't enough.

Mojo HD140
Cotic Soul (probably)
Road bike

On One Ti CX is going to be replaced by a Fargo

My three would be

FS - Turner 5 Spot or Mojo HD (with a spare shock and for for Alps trips)
HT - Looking forward to getting my new Genesis Latitude frame built up
Commuter - Budget/Mid priced road bike for commuting training. Canyon Roadlite AL 6.0

Well I just got to seven. If I had to though: (am i allowed multiple wheels and forks?)

Hardtail mtb - something light, steel, 120mm with the option to go ss and rigid for winter.

Cross bike - carbon, light one set of strong cx wheels and ones set of lighter road wheels

Cheap hack for commuting.

On-one inbred, slot dropout
On-one dirty disco
Pompino.

it works for me!

kona lava dome commuter/xc (currently upgrading to a new -2005- with p2s and floats depending on use from my 1997 version)

kona dawg 2008 140mm travel am/enduro bike

kona stinky 2006 180mm travel dh bike

also have a bmx but that doesnt see much use tbh!!

Pearson carbon audax for road winter and summer
Ibis mojo for long days in the hills
Looking for the 29er HT to have as my race bike and do it all for the south. Hoping a salsa el mariachi will fit that bill. Maybe ti if I can afford it...

Road Bike
29 HT (to suit)
26 FS (to suit)

my current 3 are:

Vitus Rapide 1 hardtail
Pacific Reach (custom build) minivelo
Autum Minion (beach cruiser).

They are all I need but of course I always want more, maybe a nice vintage road bike.

456 with rack and choice of 100mm, rigid and 140mm forks
cheap hack c. 1992
cheap road bike (but a better cx bike would be preferred)

Currently have:

Old Skool Cotic Soul which is too big for me so I've single speeded it for town, towpath and steps use;
Orange Five which is amazing for trips abroad and weekends away, but too much for local winter trails;
Steel road bike which is perfect for winter but I'm too wussy to ride it in the uber cold.

Wish I had;
29er hardtail or short travel FS (Superfly?) for local trail duties and UK weekends away;
Bigger FS for Alpsy stuff, maybe something with 160mm.

i still need to buy a full sus (no chance for a long time).i have my duster ht and tarmac road bike though to keep me going 🙂

On One Ti CX is going to be replaced by a Fargo

mcmoonter - any particular reason - I've an oldish TiX and it would definitely be in my '3' - pretty quick, comfy and tough

Mostly I fancied a change. Last year it was the bike I rode the most, mainly on the road. Once I figured out how to fit mudguards with the disc brakes it was a great do it all bike. But I also have a nice Roberts Audax bike which is even better on the road, I recently did a couple of big tours on it. So I thought rather than have two bikes that I largely use for similar riding I'd switch the CX for the Fargo. Ive run it with BB7s and disc wheels, so it's a straight parts swap. I think it may be more versatile than the CX.

Kona Ute. So practical, kids on the back, nipping in to town etc.
Niner SIR.9. Just ace. No suspension, no gears, just supply the momentum & enjoy it.
Ventana El-Ciclon. Last summer was a novelty on the Niner, but determined to enjoy this come spring.

Would love to add...

Salsa Fargo. Just ticks all the boxes & will probably replace the Niner one day.
Cheap Road Bike, to get a few midweek rides over winter.
Surly Big Dummy. For when the kids are too heavy for the Ute.

Currently got three and I'm pretty close to what i want:

Hardtail XCish bike (NS society, minute MRD forks, 1x9 LX gears, strong wheels, big bars, toddler bike seat mount)
Road/CX bike (kaffenback, campag centaur gears, road wheels and tyres - looking for a set of cross wheels for it)
Jump bike (muddy fox duel team from 2000, pikes, planet-x full monty rear wheel, singlespeed)

Only changes to make really are some CX wheels for the kaffenback and to sell off the other frames and bits knocking about. Oh, and possibly a compact chainset for the kaffenback.

7 for me at the moment...

big bike: transition covert
trail bike: santa cruz blur TRc
hardtail: rocky mountain blizzard
singlespeed/pub bike: orange evo2
cx/touring: genesis day one alfine
road/commute/touring: ribble audax
tandem pub bike: pashley tourmaster

thinking about buying a nice road bike though 🙂

Dave

Oh, and there was I hoping for a fun read loosely based upon a Lord of the Rings word-play.

3 bikes to Elven Kings, who ride but the fairest of evenings.
7 to the Northern Dwarves, who are obsessed with building trails.
9 Ti 29’rs to the race of Londoners, who above all desire attention.

C’mon, this must have legs………..

The three I've got now, I guess:

1. Carbon road race / TT bike (2 sets of wheels, 2 seat posts, clipons)
2. 4" full sus play/XC bike (Tazer)
3. 8" full sus DH bike (Socom)

I don't do hardtails any more (they are not comfy enough) and I'm fit enough to drag round a 4" one-ring bike all day 🙂

Currently:

Surly 1x1
Surly Karate Monkey (Geared)
Old Gary Fisher HT set up with slicks etc for general road hacking, child seat duties

The first two are "keepers". If I had the funds no 3 above would be swapped out for steel CX bike (Crosscheck or CdF) and that would genuinely cover all of my riding needs, although if I'm entirely honest I barely get enough time to ride as it is.

For me, it would be

1 Salsa Fargo - an all round great bike that means I don't need a road or cross bike.
2 Full suspension mountain bike - I reckon this would have to be a 29er or a 650b Burner. One for big mountain rides, epics in the Alps and such riding where the Fargo would struggle on steep and rocky terrain.
3 A Fat Bike just because if I am limited to three bikes, I want three dramatically different bikes to chose from. A Salsa Beargrease would do just fine! 😀

Hmmm. I can see a trimming down of the collection coming. One of my mates has had a bit of an epiphany and has sold all his 26 inch mountain bikes and gone full bore for 29ers.

Hmm I'd not want to ride my summer road bike in winter. And it would be a right faff not having a specific turbo bike. So that's three bikes there. How about 3 bikes to do it all on the road, and another 3 to do it all off road? That might work.

Road...
1) Summer road bike
2) Winter road bike / commuter (guards etc.)
3) Turbo bike

Off road...
1) Big bouncer for proper mountain fun and Alpine trips
2) 26er hardtail trail bike (~120mm fork)
3) Hardtail XC race bike (probably 29er)

I could probably manage with just that lot 🙂

Not that I have any intention of doing it (selling the others).

1. Santa Cruz Highball Aluminium - for all off road duties.
2. Carbon road bike - currently a Spesh Tarmac from 2010.
3. Condor Fratello for touring duties / commutes etc.

Gonnna keep the others though so only an exercise in the possible.

Giant Defy 2 Road bike
15 1/2 Prince Albert hardtail
Canyon Nerve XC full suss.

I'd probably swap the one of the mtb's for a Cross bike but couldn't decide which one.

Mine:

Roady - boredman
H/T - Carbon 456
F/S - 2013 Spicy 516

I'm here:

1 big bouncy FR full sus type bike
2 rigid XC type utility bike with seat for offspring
3 tidy roadie type bike

Yep - road bike, mtb and bmx. Mtb is currently a hardtail but i could quite as easily do it with a short travel/fun fs as well.

Mine are.......

120mm Ti Hardtail for local trail riding (Malverns) + the odd xc race
Cotic Soda

160mm Bomb proof full Sus bike for trail Centers, Gravity Enduros and the Alps
Norco Six - Heavily blinged

Entry level Race bike for commuting
Boardman Sport

If I was allowed a 4th it would be a 140mm trail bike which would then be the trail center bike.

If I was allowed a 5th it would be a 140mm beefy Hardtail

If I was allowed a 6th it would be a low cost rigid singlespeed for grim weather and going to the pub on.

I think 6 is a good number

Mondraker Dune with 170mm lyriks - does rad stuff, Alps, Enduros, technical trail centres etc.

On One carbon 29er - mincy stuff, racing, big days out, non-technical trail centres

Ribble sportive racing - doing the tarmacs.

All built up from frames because I'm a snob and a tight-arse.

If I was only able to have one it'd be a rad [s]120mm 29er[/s] 140/150mm 650b, a [s]spesh[/s] cube or a norco I reckon.

2 is enough

I have a specailized road bike for riding on the road and an orange five for riding off road. I used to have more MTB's but found I spent too much time deciding if I had taken the right one on the ride rather just enjoying the ride. So now its easy tarmac = spesh off road = orange

Currently have:
Giant Defy Advanced 2 Carbon Road bike
Ellsworth Evolution 29er
Lynskey Pro 29 VF

The 3 I use the most out of the 17 I have are

a Touring bike (made by me)
one of my 3 36ers for fun (all made by me)
1943 Phillips City bike for commuting

Just done up a spesh enduro 06
Want a Ti hardtail
Need a commuting / road bike