[Closed] How different are your bikes?

Not much,

I have an HT29er and a FS29erAM.

They're similar but different enough cover every single base I am able to ride really well..

At one end I have a karate monkey set up as a drop bar road/cross bike (lovely mud clearance) and at the other end I have an SS Pugsley. Inbetween I have a rigid 29er set up as 1x10. Not all that different to each other if I am honest.

Quite similiar I suppose in the grand scheme of things- flat barred fast hybrid to lightweight 6 inch #enduro steed via long travel hardtail. The 2 mtbs can both easily do the job of the other, just differently.

Madone to a Fatty so a reasonable spread, with a few things inbetween obviously.

All of my bikes are exactly the same. I only have one tho 😉

Carbon road bike and 140mm hard tail, the 170mm full suss should fit in the spectrum quite nicely when it arrives in Jan 🙂

one of each

FS
Hardtail
SS
Road Bike
Hack Bike

Anything else and you have a bike that gets limited use IMHO or you are getting a niche bike. Even at that every bike is not ridden every month and I ride 3-4 times a week

26in MTB tourer
CX
6in AM bike
Steel hardtail

So, all usable off road to different degrees, mostly steel, mostly 26in.

1 x hardtail
1 x full suss

both 27.5 and 160mm.

1 x unicycle

also have a bike that i go to work on but that is a road bike or something and they dont count.

Mountain bikes range from Race ready 29r to Full on DH bike

CX Bike
Summer Race Bike
Winter Hack
Turbo Slave
140mm FS

Think i've got all bases covered 🙂

Mines a triangle of variation - full suss mountain bike on one point, disc wheeled full on time trail bike at another and recumbent tourer on the last. 5 other bikes occupy the middle of the triangle.

Kind of feel I have most of the pedalling world covered.

Road bike
FS Aluinium 26" mountain bike
Singlespeed Steel 29er HT
and soon to be aquired tourer/adventure bike in the form of a 'Kona Sutra'

Nearest are the cross bike and the road bike cos they have drop bars and 10x2 gears.
MTBs are
5+" travel full sus - 9x3 speed gears
A steel hardtail - 8x3
A rigid singlespeed

so all pretty different I reckon (apart from the mtbs all having 26" wheels).

700c road bike 2x9
700c cross bike 1x10
26er homemade carbon monstercross singlespeed 1x1
26er homemade carbon XC full suss 2x10
26er Steel/Ti retro mtb/tourer (currently in pieces) 3x9/10

So I guess not a bad range and all have different gearing combinations!

I think I'm definitely in need of a 29er to compliment them...

quite a lot, 140mm full sus, 100mm jump bike and a road bike.

i feel that that's all i need (im clearly lying)

Not much

100 mm DJ HT at one end and a 200 mm DH FS at the other

A fair bit of interchangeable componentry means I can make any one of them into something else

There's a road bike as well but we don't talk about that

Not much. Road bike to 29er XC hardtail.

A 2x10 650b fun hardtail and a SS cross bike.

Steel commuter - steel 140 ht - 160 FS - 200mm DH

24 lbs to 31 lbs

2x retro rigid, both 1989.
26" 100mm HT.
29" 140mm FS.

Raw,grey,yellow and green.

140-160mm FS 650b
120mm HT 650b
Rigid SS 29er
CX bike
[Commuter]

Good spread I think.

650b Alpine muncher
29er short travel
CX

mmmm, mine are a bit close for comfort really - hand built modern steel road bike with 10 speed ultra, alu & carbon road bike with 9 speed tiara, and a hard tail 29er XC bike…..

I could really do with a cross bike and a full sudser but budget won't allow!

CX bike to BMX

Steel 650b XC hardtail 1x10
Scaffolding 650b rigid SS
Road bike 2x10

Thinking about getting an old steel road bike and a nice 650b/29 SS, maybe Ti but probably steel again. Or maybe carbon. Wouldn't turn down a CX bike either geared or SS.

Steel 650b hardtail with 140mm travel
26" 160mm "enduro" full susser
26" 200mm downhill bike

All rigid singlepseeds, all very different to ride from a floaty light niche titanium thing, a jones space frame, a stooge, etc..through to a fat bike.

I'm sure one day I may get an urge for boing or gears again, but dont see the need

Fat bike
to
Carbon road bike
to
steel singlespeed MTB
to
Carbon 650b 165mm #enduro gnarpoon.

plus a couple that fit inbetween.

17-29lbs

Lots of variety if you ask me. However, to the non initiated, I have 6 'bikes' which is pointless. Apparently.

tazzymtb - Member

All rigid singlepseeds, all very different to ride from a floaty light niche titanium thing, a jones space frame, a stooge, etc..through to a fat bike.

I'm sure one day I may get an urge for boing or gears again, but dont see the need

None of that is niche anymore though, niche is dead 😮

You're gonna have to try harder!

Cannondale Supersix through 3 others to a fat bike (and full suss on the way) with a Brompton too.

All get used too!

Never seen the point of having similar bikes.

Race BMX
DH bike - 224
Rigid P7
Road bike
AM/XC - Patriot '00

Fairly varied I think!

Alu road bike through steel hardtail to carbon 140/160 full suss

When my wife asks, they are all very different. Each has a specific use and can never be used for a purpose not intended, hence the amount of them. In reality they all have two wheels and handlebars and if it was the 90's I'd be made up with any one of them. DH, 150mm FS, XC FS, jump, beach cruiser, BMX, SS. Need a ride bike though.

26" Stumpjumper
26" BFe
29" Solaris (under construction)
Bianchi road bike

I think that is a good spread and I don't really want anything else.

In approximate order of weight:

Road bike (carbon)
120mm FS (alu)
90s hardtail (steel)
Drop bar commuter (steel)

Fairly wide spread:

Pompetamine set up as a hub geared, drop (flared) bar commuter.

Longish travel ht xc bike with pikes up front.

Maverick fs bike (again with pikes)

Unfinished thrashing bike - 150mm travel ss hardtail (duncon cock) with chunky tyres, dh wheels and z1 forks

Hopefully getting my old ti road bike back in the spring so that's pretty close to a full spectrum. Might amalgamate the two xc bikes into a ns eccentric as neither gets enough use really.

My latest n+1 has expanded the breadth somewhat 😆

full suss
hardtail
cx/commuter
racer/summer bike
brompton!

all bikes are good

niche is dead

if you say so chap 😆

I've had a bit of a clearout this last year or so, down to six now.

Carbon road bike
Ally road bike
Ally CX/light tourer/commuter etc
Steel proper road tourer
Steel 29er MTB tourer
Ally 26" MTB (needs parts)

The ones gone this year are the 26" FS and the 26" rigid SS. I also had a steel track bike but that went some time ago, wish I hadn't sold that.

I'd quite like a Brompton for trips to the office and another track bike. Next year maybe.

classic 531c road race bike
ye olde worlde hardtail with 50mm XC forks rather than the 64mm all mountain
cx bike that doubles as a road bike where I don't need to stay on roads
hardtail w/ 120mm up front more for "big days out"

I have a green one and a blue one..

I'd say mine cover a good chunk of the "Gnarr" to "Meh" scale..

-DH bike
-Geared, steel HT with a dropper
-Rigid, SS MTB
Geared Plastic road bike
Fixed, heavy steel Winter (and summer) commuter

Got rid of BMX and jump bikes as they simply weren't being ridden any more...

With that lot I [i]could[/i] take part in a lot of different types of events, and I can do lots of different types of riding just for fun...

Still quite fancy a CX bike, but I'm not sure how much use it would really get given the current lot...

Too different, I had a 150mm FS bike but it got used so infrequently and when it did it often felt like I was using it for the sake of it rather than because it was needed on a given day.

Should really have gotten more similar bikes, a SS, HT and XC/trail FS would have covered all my riding to some degree, rather than trying to cover too broad a spectrum and always being on the wrong bike.

An odd fs / slopestyle type 4x bike with 150 revs and 100mm on the back which serves as my do it all mtb.. and a tripster atr which is my do it all road / cx / gravel bike.
Throw in an assortment of tyres and forks and I sort of have it covered

SS 26er
SS Fatbike
Fixed Fatbike
Fixed 29er
commuter
fixed road bike
cruiser
trials bike
SS race 26er
I really must have a clearout.............

Fixed Fatbike

Wins 'most niche' award.

Fairly. Bfe for all round riding, Covert for Alps/away trips. They both have same wheels, brakes etc though. Both have adjustable travel forks.

red, white, orange and a blue one on order 😀

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with 5 inbetween.

I,ve got two bikes ,an oldish thorn xtc and a 6 year old rocky mountain element f/s,so pretty different I guess,i would get a nice new f/s bike if I had any money but you be very sad if anything happened to the thorn.

Not bad, andrewh. My track bike is further out than your TT bike though, and my Patriot is similar to your Stinky, but then again you have coil springs.. hmm..

Anyone own both a track bike and a DH?

unicycle to kiddyback tandem, via recumbent KMX kart. With a handful of road, track, TT and mtb bikes for mainstream, and a dutch ladies roadster for shopping.

How's that?

I don't have a DH bike *shudder*

Steel SS CX (discs, slicks and mudguards) - commuter
Steel Geared CX (diss, slicks=roadie)
Steel rigid SS 29er (winter mtb)
Steel hardtail 29er (1x10)

All variations on a theme but all get used for a purpose. I keep fancying a bouncy bike but I think it just wouldn't get used for the type of riding I do...

Probably a bit too closely grouped in "middle of the road" spec when I start to think about it...
456EVOTi - 140mm /65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2x9
LV 301 - 160mm /65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2x10
Patriot - 180mm / 65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2x9

Think the Patriot might have to go to make room for a LV601, at least that should get me to 64.n deg 😛

Stepthru Dutch 3spd behemoth made of Hi Ten and increased gravity that weighs more than double the

Flyweight alu 3x9 XC which cannot travel in the boot like the

20" cromo folder which sits unloved (almost hated) in the corner for most of it's life.

All go fwd when I pedal yet each one can't even slightly do what the other does. It all makes sense to me.

I think you just beat there Mol!
However, TiRed has just reminded me that I have a unicycle too, where that come in the spectrum relative to your track bike?

Errr. There is more than one track bike 😉 . Since the unicycle is steel, it has more in common with the vintage one, as opposed to the alloy Dolan.

Of course there are two further fixed wheel road bikes as well.

I don't have a folder any more - but have owned a Raleigh 20, Brompton, Airframe (no. 87) and an Airnimal Rhino.

Still don't have a proper recumbent. A Mango velomobile would be my choice.

TiRed has just reminded me that I have a unicycle too, where that come in the spectrum relative to your track bike?

Well.. I started thinking about it then I realised that unicycles are not bikes 🙂

26" P7 on 120mm front end
26" Keewee cromo 8
Both steel but very different to ride. No road bikes here, no interest since a car tried to smash me to bits nearly 20 years ago.

26" 100m HT (2 x 9)
700c disc braked Hybrid (2x9 - winter road bike)
Giant Defy 1 roadie (for dry roads)

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bikepolo (bits rewelded and not repainted hence paintjob)

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the photo doesnt really show short that polo bike is. end to end the front edge of the tyre only JUST comes up to the front axle on my 29er. turns rapid!

hmmm... at the one end I have a classic steel hardtail frame with a rigid carbon fork and 2.35 knobblies

at the other I have a classic steel hardtail frame with a rigid steel fork and 2.35 slicks

Oh... and a customised unicycle 🙂

one has fat tyres...the other has skinny ones
one has suspension...the other has nothing
one is slow...the other is fast
one cost a lot...the other one didnt cost a lot
one is blue...the other is orange
one has a name...the other doesnt
one lives upstairs...the other lives downstairs

I realised that unicycles are not bikes

No, but [url= http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/former-world-champion-shows-off-artistic-cycling-skills-video-146596 ]bikes can be unicycles[/url] 😯

I've got a road bike, a 140mm HT and a 100mm HT currently with slicks on.

I would like more travel and more bounce at that end of my spectrum.

Road bike
150mm full suss 26
100mm HT 29er
1990 Kona Explosif with slicks for general use