mikeschn wrote:Yep, It's an addiction...
For example, in my stable I have:
Specialized Crosstrail
Cannondale F5
Sirrus Sport
Schwinn Tourist
Mike...
Talk to me about the crosstrail. Could it pull double duty as a touring bike?
mikeschn wrote:Yep, It's an addiction...
For example, in my stable I have:
Specialized Crosstrail
Cannondale F5
Sirrus Sport
Schwinn Tourist
Mike...
Yuri4x4 wrote:I used to build and ride BMX bikes, riding half-pipes/etc. Got a mountain bike to pedal around base in the Navy... When I moved back to PA, I went bikeless for quite some time. But something was missing in my life, and I never could place what it was...
A couple back surgeries later... I broke-down and bought another bike. Figuring with one less disc, I better get something more upright. So I bought a comfort bike. When gas prices shot-up, I started riding it (plus the train) to work. I kept adapting things, adding lights/skinnier tires/ect. to where I eventually had a flat-bar, road bike-ish creation. I rode it that way for over a year, and saves ALOT of gas!
Tax time came around, and I figured I was rehabbed enough to buy a road bike. The comfort bike got big tires put back on it, and is still used for hauling the kid trailer, or Walmart grocery runs. The roady is my primary transportation to work (along with the train). It's not possible to ride the entire trip... I have to take the train for some of it because of the neighborhood. But I do manage to get 50-60 miles of commute a week on my road bike on a normal week. This year (Jan 2nd), I decided to get back on the bike throughout the Winter. The roady got fenders. Now I ride in rain, snow, whatever...
The wife just recently started rolling with me. We pull a kiddie trailer 5 miles down the bike trail to go to Walmart. So we do one big grocery shop in the van, then use our bikes for small trips. We'll even ride to McDonalds on occasion
Fo me, a bike was something I had been missing in my life for quite some time. I would even go as far as saying that I may have never needed back surgery if I had kept riding! So it would be safe to say that I will probably have bikes the rest of my life.
mk10108 wrote:mikeschn wrote:Yep, It's an addiction...
For example, in my stable I have:
Specialized Crosstrail
Cannondale F5
Sirrus Sport
Schwinn Tourist
Mike...
Talk to me about the crosstrail. Could it pull double duty as a touring bike?
mikeschn wrote:mk10108 wrote:mikeschn wrote:Yep, It's an addiction...
For example, in my stable I have:
Specialized Crosstrail
Cannondale F5
Sirrus Sport
Schwinn Tourist
Mike...
Talk to me about the crosstrail. Could it pull double duty as a touring bike?
The crosstrail looks like a mountain bike with 700C wheels. I don't think it would work well as a touring bike.
I average 10 mph on the Crosstrail, on the trail. It's heavy, it's slow... but it's really comfortable!
Mike...
b1kebox wrote:It's not an addiction if you ride them, only if you just squirrel them away. In a typical month I may ride 20 different bikes, have owned 61 as an adult and currently have just under half of them.
Oasis Maker wrote:mikeschn wrote:mk10108 wrote:mikeschn wrote:Yep, It's an addiction...
For example, in my stable I have:
Specialized Crosstrail
Cannondale F5
Sirrus Sport
Schwinn Tourist
Mike...
Talk to me about the crosstrail. Could it pull double duty as a touring bike?
The crosstrail looks like a mountain bike with 700C wheels. I don't think it would work well as a touring bike.
I average 10 mph on the Crosstrail, on the trail. It's heavy, it's slow... but it's really comfortable!
Mike...
But if you did want to set it up as a touring bike, this is how it would look...
Scott G.
b1kebox wrote:It's not an addiction if you ride them, only if you just squirrel them away. In a typical month I may ride 20 different bikes, have owned 61 as an adult and currently have just under half of them.
Oasis Maker wrote:b1kebox wrote:It's not an addiction if you ride them, only if you just squirrel them away. In a typical month I may ride 20 different bikes, have owned 61 as an adult and currently have just under half of them.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner. A new king has arrived in Bike World. With 61 past and close to 25 or 30 present bikes, riding 20 of those in any given month... I give you THE NEW KING OF THE BIKE JONES!!!! ...................
B1KEBOX!!!!!
Former champ Glenn will present the award.
Fenlason wrote:Do tandems count as 1 bike or 2 :thinking: :roll: 8)
but then.. my unicycle.. is that 1 or 1/2 ?
Oasis Maker wrote:Whoa man - this is close!
Well I guess it's all going to boil down to how you two score on the question segment of the contest... here it goes...
Scott G.
b1kebox wrote:Fenlason wrote:Do tandems count as 1 bike or 2
but then.. my unicycle.. is that 1 or 1/2 ?
Fenlason, you are the man, I've never owned or even tried to ride a unicyle. Tandems, yes, we've had seven, and currently two. We rode our Rans Dynamic Duo Crank Forward to breakfast this morning and also have a Barcroft Columbia. My newest bike ia a Cruzbike Quest 451 folding moving bottom bracket (MBB) bike. Fits into the same Samsonite suitcase as my Bike Fridays.
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