[Closed] If you could have any 4 bikes...

summer road bike
winter road bike
xc bike
dh bike.

Bontrager Race
Bontrager CX*
Custom Rock Lobster steel hardtail*
Brompton*

Chuck in a nice old steel BMX cruiser, and I reckon that would do me fine.

(*on shopping list...)

Long travel HT
Rigid SS
flat bar cyclo-cross as do-it-all road/commuter/exploring bike
vintage Raleigh road bike

APF

road bike
cx bike
full sus xc/trail bike
ss winter mtb

Interested in what specific bikes as much as what genre, but this is all good 🙂

that changes every week 🙂

In my shed I have:
BMX (rarely used these days, need to mtfu)
Charge plug for getting about town
Cotic Soul 1x9 gearing - local XC and training
Last Herb FR with 160mm F&R - From tougher XC to Alpine DH

A good spread that covers almost everything. Wouldn't want another mtb as it'd be pointless when those two do all genres apart from trials. And i definitely don't want a proper road bike in there.

I've got two of them already!

Nicolai Helius CC - tick
Steel framed cx / tourer - tick

Need
Fast road bike but nowt too "poseur ish" - something like a Boardman carbon
That Charge Blender in the classifieds.

Colnago Master
some sort of carbon MTB race bike
That new Canyon TT bike
some sort of time road bike

Boardman cx pro
Scott scale ltd
Intense slopestyle (check)
Trek session 9.9

Are we assuming money is no concern?
erm, maybe something like:
SC nomad carbon, Fox 180-140 Talas or BOS 160mm something, Edge/enve rims etc
Nicolai DH bike with electric assist/power. w. Manitou carbon dorados
Moots 29er Ti Softail, Are there 29er able Maverick forks?
maybe a Charge Blender Ti, dropped 36 Float, etc

All overly blinged, but not toooo flashy, just a little too flashy

Seomthing like that. And then I'd realise Id want to change them all, if only slightly

FS - Bottlerocket or something similar
HT - NS Surge
Road bike - my CAAD8 is fine
BMX - Native Trendkill frame looks awesome.

Cotic Soul would be the 'regular' bike
Some kind of long travel full suss for occasional trail centre duties.
Steel framed road tourer, as my 'road' and commuter bike option...chosen closely behind a drop bar mtb
Surly fat bike, to give my collection some eccentricity

Trek session 9.9

Can we sell them on? If yes, I'll have four of those (brand new in box), please, thanks. 🙂

160 bike, maybe a carbon Spicy or Nomad.
DH bike - TR250, or a V10
Hardtail - think I'd keep my Soul, maybe a similar bike in Ti

Dunno after that. Maybe a Blur TRc

SC nomad (got)
blue pig x (but in a nicer colour than currently available)
SC V10 carbon
a marathon bike (maybe a 29er anthem and i wonder what a orange gyro would be like)

Hmmm,

Custom Steel road bike for road and touring
My Tallboy but with some further choice mods (Enve springs to mind)
A Blur TRc set up for jumping, razzing and slaloming etc
A Ritte Crossberg with Dugast tubs etc

Think that would do for now

this week..?

not very imaginative I'm afraid..

853 Prince Albert
the Ashton trials bike in the classifieds
Transition Bandit
Surly Troll/Ogre.. (not sold on the 29er idea just yet being knee high to a grasshopper like what I am..)

not very imaginative I'm afraid.. 😳

DH bouncer
XC missile
Single speed hard tail
Pub/Station clunker bike that won't get knicked

what's great is if you re-post this in a weeks time and i guarantee that the majority of the responses from the same people would be different. and in some small way i find that reassuring.

Santa cruz carbon nomad set up with bos deville 170 (with angle set so at 65.5) ccdb, fox dhx rc4 or bos stoy rear shock for lake district, alps riding,
Santa cruz blur trc set up with bos deville's ( lowered to 140) vipe'r and 1x10 gearing for trail centres,
Some sort of supportive road bike ( no idea what, one that fits preferably )
For my last bike I'd be torn between either a hardcore hardtail or some kind of street trial bike.

...or some kind of street trial bike.

Oof. There's a thought. Does it have to be just four? In an ideal world I'd have seven or eight, at least...

I thought four would be good as it gives some kind of limit, but in reality I'd have at least 6, and a big camper to put them all in.

Four's good. Teh other half would kill me if I bought more than that 😉

I'd have a:
Road bike
HT trail bike
140/160mm AM bike
DH bike

Scott Foil Di2
Steve Potts Ti Monstercross/tourer
Ibis Mojo HD
Pereira 29er singlespeed cruiser or a Bystickel 29er singlespeed.*

*probably the most changeable choice.

Cervelo P5 and a Ritchey Annapurna would be nice too.

Can i just have more time to ride my existing bikes instead please?

Enigma custom Ti single-speed built roughly to Inbred geometry.
Keep my Cannondale Super Six as its just right in fit and feel though i'd put Campag on it.
Always fancied an Independant Fabrication Planet cross bike.
Some 140-160mm trail bike don't know which though.

I have a Ellsworth Truth
Ellsworth Enlightenment
I'd like a nice road bike and a long travel all mountain thingy!

Yeah right I've already changed my mind..

1) Something to commute to work on every day.
2) Heap of s*** bike that won't get knicked.
3) Orange 5 for playing around on.
4) Motocross bike for when my body gives up.

If you could have four women which ones would they be?

I'd probably have a:
Fun XC/trail/whatever you want to call it hardtail/dirt jump/4X bike
Poppy feeling 150-160mm AM/enduro bike
DH bike
I don't know about the 4th. I'm sure I'd find something I liked the look of soon enough.

So that'd probably be:
Stanton Slackline, 1X10, travel adjust forks
Transition Covert with BOS suspension all round or some of Marzocchi's top end 55s and a CCDB Air, dropper post, SRAM X0 2x10 with one of those MRP guides
Specialized Demo

Sambob i have: Trek 1.5c for the winter & a Madone 5.5 for the summer.
Remedy 9 with 160 Talas carribean fit up front 8)
Fuel ex8
Kinesis Maxlight pro xc3 (for putting the child seat on obviously!)
I'd like a Session for the yearly trip to the Alps, but it's never going to happen unless i sell everything else 😥

15" Stanton Slackline (or my old BFe) for dicking about on
Med Cotic Soul for more xc orientated rides
My current Orange Five as it works for me and i love it
My old 07 Sx Trail, the most fun (pointing down) bike i've ever owned

It changes every week...

But I do have three out of four already covered.

1. Carbon Road Bike
2. Steel Road Bike
3. Steel Road Tourer
4. Steel 26er
5. Carbon 29er XC
6. Full sus 26er XC
7. Retro single speed
8. Adventure drop bar
9. Flat bar Road / CX
10. Ducati monster

1 - Just sold to buy 2.
2 - see above
3 - using 9
4 - Took out to the beach today.
5 - Not fit enough to justify.
6 - Am not rich enough but saving.
7 - Am not hip enough.
8 - An not niche enough.
9 - Am unhip enough to get away with.
10 - Am too old for.

I was going to reply last night but decided to give such a serious subject proper thought.

1. My current Yeti ASR-AL (but upgrade the SLX kit to XTR
2. My current Van Nic Tuareg Ti Hardtail
3. A custom steel roadbike with Di2
4. A winter training bike - Steel frame Rohloff hub

I'll be halfway there later this year hopefully when I upgrade the Yeti.
Threads like this are dangerous

Probably my current ones although would like to update in places :

08 Orange 5
06 Rock Lobster 853
07 Jake the snake
12 Giant Defy Composite

I'd go for:

A Nicolai Helius AC, tricked up with XTR and BOS to replace my CC with XT
A Niner Air 29'er with XTR etc
A Dogma with Di2
A Brodie Holeshot as per the above MTB's for messing about on

And that'd do me fine and dandy

A nice carbon road bike ...I like those BMCs
A mid travel FS with 29" wheels ...Bandit Two9 in black & white with Pro II & white Flows, black Revs, 2x10 Shimano and a Reverb
My Cube X Race comp ...it's the bike I ride most and love it!
Jones Spaceframe Ti with Truss fork and fat up front ...would make a lovely pub bike 😆

Ti 4x bike with 3 gears
A carbon dh bike (trek/SC - i'm not fussy)
TR250
100m fs racey style bike

One of each type (for the riding I do) in one of each material:-

A Carbon road bike
Nicolai Helius AC 29er Rohloff
Cotic Solaris
My existing Ti Hybrid/Tourer

At this moment in time.

1 - longish travel do-it-all HT (BFe - check).
2 - 150mm or so 'AM' FS (Rocket, Ariel or Covert).
3 - (flat bar) road(ish) bike for commute etc. (Tap or Roadrat)
3 - any one from a fatbike (just because), 4X bike (Omen, Bank or Krisis) or a mint Pashley 24/7.

slainte 💡 rob

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Colnago CLX3 - Van Nicholas Amazon (Rohloff) - Brodie Holeshot - Ibis Mojo

If I thought too much about custom builds ,my head would explode 😀

Ady, Is that Remedy the one from Evans I sent you a link to? If so I feel a 3k commission is in order so I can buy my self a very nice Bandit 29 😉

Unfortunately not Sam! Alloy frame from EBay (2011 model) 🙂 Give me a shout if you can ride next week. Im off all week.

The 4 I'm currently sat next to are:
TT Bike: Blue Triad ex;
Track Bike: Tifosi Pista;
Mtb: Kenisis Maxlight;
Road Bike: Kuota corsa lite;

I'd probably switch the mtb to something like an s-works epic 29, the road bike to an S5 and maybe the track bike to a Dolan Forza, if I fell into heaps of cash and [i]had[/i] to stick to 4. I'd be more likely to add a cx bike (spesh Crux)and buy more wheels before switching any of my current bikes out though.

Iain

I have two of the four

'10 Orange 5

'10 Ribble winter trainer

Would love

Inbred

Cotic road rat (triple though)

Santa Cruz V10 Carbon.
Intense Carbine full XTR Trail with full Easton Carbon Haven kit.
Black Market Killswitch.
long Travel hardtail

Cotic Soul, in custard.
Surly Disc Trucker.
A nice BMX.
A carbon road bike.

YGM Ady 🙂

Ibis Mojo HD with devilles spare set of forks and chip to run it at 140
Trek Session 9.9
Custom 120mm forked Ti hardtail of some sort
SC carbon tallboy

Ask me again in 10 minutes.

1. My current XC HT Bike
2. Scott Genius Ltd or Lappiere 916
3. An MTB Tandem [i](not that any of my mates would go with me!)[/i]
4. A road bike, [i]I know nothing about what is good.[/i]

Strangely enough - bike #4 is getting stripped down to sell as I think I've finally worked out that 3 is the magic number, and right here, right now, I'm (very) happy with them.

1: Specialized Camber Pro
2: Planet X Nanolight Hi Mod
3: Kinesis Tripster

4: If you pushed me, then it'd probably be a 456, as I still miss mine.

Assuming they ride how you'd expect them to ride after a test ride I'd have;

Road Bike - Specialized Venge - have ridden one and it's superb.
CX Bike - Stevens Super Prestige
29" MTB - Giant XTC Composite SL built with top end components
26" MTB - MY current BMC Teamelite TE01 but upgrade with SIDs and XTR 2x10.

Spicy 916
Whyte 19 ti
Niner Carbon SS thingy
The most expensive bike in the world, boxed, to sell, as De La Soul were right - three is the magic number.

Another 3 Niner SIR9's, but in different colours. 🙂

I'm lucky enough to have a couple (and maybe three) of them, but if money was no object I suppose I might get one of them made in Ti by Indy Fab and buy a new carbon version of the other.

1. Cotic Solaris - would get a blingier version of esentially the same thing.
2. Niner RIP 9 - I'd probably get the new JET 9 RDO which would be lighter but pretty much as capable.
3. I'm thinking this might be something like an S-Works Roubaix (does this mean I'm getting old?)
4. I think I'd keep my singlespeed town bike (Globe San Francisco) as its massively practical, but still fancy a Langster.

MK1 GT Zaskar
Yeti 575 25th
Yeti SB95 in Turquoise
Nukeproof Scalp

I'd have

1 - a custom made bmx,robably built by fbm. With profile elites and basically the nicest stuff i could find to build a strong light trails bike.

2) a custom ti frame, built to feel as much like a bmx as possible on jumps, but still be able to pedal for a few hours, built with 1 x 10 xtr everywhere, chris king etc, and some nice 120mm forks.

3) dh bike, not sure what.

4)140mm bike, but not sure what, probably a last herb.

but that leaves no room for all the other bikes i want

3)

Colnago C59 DISC
Yeti ARC
Moots Psychlo X
The Raleigh Chopper I had when I was 10

think i already have them.

pegoretti
condor fixed
giant trance-x
dialled love/hate

would swap them for:
pegoretti with 1kilo 30mm deep bling wheelset
condor fixed (change nothing)
a carbon trance-x if they make one? add some xtr
the love hate but with a tubeless wheelset and a newer pair of forks than the recon's i have on it.

1. 2005 cannondale prophet
2. 2006 cannondale prophet
3. 2007 cannondale prophet
4. 2008 cannondale prophet

Yeah looks good to me.

road bike with mudguards and able to take panniers
HT
FS
SS7

yes got one of each.
No idea what i would get if money was no object but I would probably change the road bike first as it is getting on but still works fine.

My '11 Enduro (but sworks carbon would be nice)
Stanton slackline
Specialized demo
Old skool bmx

Cervelo S5 VWD
S-works FS carbon 29er
Carbon CX bike with discs (don't know which one and I'm scared to look in case I fall in love but ATM I have a road rat for these duties)
Moots YBB 29er

That should do for this week 🙂

1. Cotic Soul
2. Yeti SB66
3. Santa Cruz V10
4. Wethepeople Zodiac BMX

Just need those 6 little numbers to come good tomorrow........

2011 custom zesty 714
Intense ss1
Intense m9
Trek session 9.9. Well, why not...