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Have too many bikes?
What are we doing?
Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? How many bikes do you have? Of those, how many are actively being used? How many are "project" bikes? If your project bikes outnumber your active ones, you just might be obsessed w/ bikes. I admit that I am. |
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Ablang wrote:
What are we doing? Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? How many bikes do you have? Of those, how many are actively being used? How many are "project" bikes? If your project bikes outnumber your active ones, you just might be obsessed w/ bikes. I admit that I am. Too many bicycles is an absurd concept. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia "People who had no mercy will find none." - Anon. |
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Tom Sherman writes: Ablang wrote: What are we doing? Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? How many bikes do you have? Of those, how many are actively being used? How many are "project" bikes? If your project bikes outnumber your active ones, you just might be obsessed w/ bikes. I admit that I am. Too many bicycles is an absurd concept. "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." -- uttered by Mae West in some antiquated movie I currently have 4 1/2 bikes. The 1/2 is a Peugeot Rapport that somebody discarded. I was intrigued by its 105 pedals with the 3-bolt toeclips. The one-piece hubs clinched my decision to adopt it. The others consist of my main bike which I've previously described, my Sekine mixte (which I've also previously described,) a road bike which I cobbled together with the best parts derived from 3 discarded Bike Boom road bikes, and my beloved heron-edition Raleigh Twenty. The Peugeot has a very pretty lugged frame. With a lightweight wheelset and the right gearing, it'd be a real go-getter. In fact I just might integrate the frame w/ my cobbled-together roadie. When I get a round tuit. Worrying about weird French/Swiss/Italian threading is a greatly overblown canard. It can be readily dealt with. OTOH, cottered cranks present more difficulty -- the bike shops always seem to have every cotter size & shape except the one you need. Nevertheless, those slim, cottered steel cranks are generally so lovely, and so pleasingly sculpted. Many other bikes have come 'n gone and passed through my healing hands, like birdies with broken wings that have mended and returned to their free flight o'er this vale of tears. I wish I could find some replacement 3-bolt toeclips for those 105 pedals. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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On Jul 26, 2:02*pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:
I wish I could find some replacement 3-bolt toeclips for those 105 pedals. $15 US at loosescrews.com. Those are very nice pedals if you can scare up some slot cleats to use with them. I think they even had a special cleat you could get for them as well that gave you a super positive interface with the pedal. |
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On Jul 26, 2:25*pm, Tom Sherman
wrote: Ablang wrote: What are we doing? Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? How many bikes do you have? *Of those, how many are actively being used? *How many are "project" bikes? *If your project bikes outnumber your active ones, you just might be obsessed w/ bikes. I admit that I am. Too many bicycles is an absurd concept. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia "People who had no mercy will find none." - Anon. Absolutely. Anyway, I've got 3 that get regular use: Mountain, Road and singlespeed/commuter (racks, flip-flop to fixed gear - all the stuff for foul weather riding/commuting). Then there's the BMX - don't ride it as much as I used to, but it's specific purpose and can't be parted with. Then there's the foul-weather/loaner MTB, a full suspension Marin that I mainly use in the winter when I don't want the nice mountain bike coming out. Again, indespensible. After that there are a couple parts/project bikes, but nothing I even pretend to intend to ride. 2 are trying to become 1 as a giveaway, one is parts for another project, etc. So yeah, there's a few, and that's the way it is and should be |
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"Tom Keats" wrote: (clip) I was intrigued by its 105 pedals (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's designed to be ridden by 52 1/2 people? |
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Ablang wrote:
What are we doing? Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? Wouldn't that be sorta like "too many Beethoven symphonies?" Bill __o | Fear not the path of truth for the lack _`\(,_ | of people walking on it. (_)/ (_) | --Robert F. Kennedy |
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On Jul 26, 2:21 pm, Ablang wrote:
What are we doing? Does anyone else here believe that they (or their SOs) have way too many bikes? How many bikes do you have? Of those, how many are actively being used? How many are "project" bikes? If your project bikes outnumber your active ones, you just might be obsessed w/ bikes. I admit that I am. I don't believe I'm 'obsessed' with bicycles, but I'm the only one in the family who takes care of them. On last count I have 14 bicycles in the house. Many of those came from ones I pulled from somebodies trash because they looked too good to scrap. I've given a few away that I fixed up. I've received a couple that need repairs and were good for parts for others I have. I put a motor on one and still ride that around, because it's fun. Of all the bicycles and frames I have, five are roadworthy, meaning you could grab it and ride. Some have minor problems like flat tires, missing pedals etc. The only bicycle parts I've had to 'buy' lately was a mirror and a brake cable. In my area, on any given week, you can find whole bicycles or parts of bikes out by the curb on trash day. I must admit I don't like to see perfectly good, easily repairable bicycles thrown out, so I 'save them', repair them and give them away or keep them to ride myself. I've only had three of them stolen, and they were new bikes. I guess I like the used older ones because I don't have to lock them up when I use them. |
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landotter writes: On Jul 26, 2:02*pm, (Tom Keats) wrote: I wish I could find some replacement 3-bolt toeclips for those 105 pedals. $15 US at loosescrews.com. Those are very nice pedals if you can scare up some slot cleats to use with them. I think they even had a special cleat you could get for them as well that gave you a super positive interface with the pedal. Thank you muchly for the tip. I just realized, I practically have a cage pedal collection, like it's a hobby or sumpthin'. Maybe I'll stick the Maxxys with the fretworked letter 'M' in their cages on the Sekine. But first I must have 'em plated with red gold. I think that'd look pretty sharp against the raven black paint on the frame. And usually I find gold rather ostentatious and chintzy. But sometimes it works. I also possess a slide rule collection. I even know some biographical info about William Oughtred and John Napier (seperately, of course. I dunno if they ever corresponded or collaborated in their mathematical ventures; I've always enjoyed wondering if they did. Finding out fer sher one way or the other would be a spoiler.) I must be some kinda nerd. The realization that I'm a pedal collector just snuk up on me. I appreciate how cage pedals afford so much latitude for artistic design. By comparison, so many cleated pedals are such minimalist stubs, although I'm sure they fill their purposes eminently well. Some of 'em would make nice pocke****ch fobs or keychain danglers. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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How many bikes do you have? * i have 5 tia peter |
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