I have three barns and yet a mere total of six bikes plus another bike that we let a friend store there - which sits alone on its 20" wheels in the big barn, overshadowed by the trailer we let another farmer keep in there. Other than that I have two frames which regularly get built - and then stripped back down when one of my other bikes needs something. I have another four frames, essentially dead bikes, that I might saw something off or rebuild if I happen across something appropriate - like a fork for the otherwise good Amsterdam frame.
In the spring I will be selling one of the six, but at the moment it is the only one currently residing in my garage, so my only ride in the city. Three of the bikes are Romet Jubilat 2's, folders on 24" wheels, one modded as an off-roader with coaster brake, another as an off-roader with 3-speed derailleur and the third almost standard with high rise bars. Then there is the Romet Wigry, my minimalist and hence easily transportable folder on 20" wheels, the Romet Turing 2 on 26" wheels and due to become my city rider, and the Kross MTB - which sees most riding action as tarmac is at a premium in our end-of-the-road village while field and forest are not.
I love looking at adverts for bikes, but the only purchases I make now are for bikes I will strip for parts that I can use to change or repair my current bikes. Most of my six are rideable and easily accessible, four of them living in my coalshed workshop, so within easy reach if I want to do something on them. I know that if I had any more I would just do less with and to them. Other than that I have loads of pictures of Wigry, Jubilat and Turing bikes I come across, so much easier to store.
In the spring I will be selling one of the six, but at the moment it is the only one currently residing in my garage, so my only ride in the city. Three of the bikes are Romet Jubilat 2's, folders on 24" wheels, one modded as an off-roader with coaster brake, another as an off-roader with 3-speed derailleur and the third almost standard with high rise bars. Then there is the Romet Wigry, my minimalist and hence easily transportable folder on 20" wheels, the Romet Turing 2 on 26" wheels and due to become my city rider, and the Kross MTB - which sees most riding action as tarmac is at a premium in our end-of-the-road village while field and forest are not.
I love looking at adverts for bikes, but the only purchases I make now are for bikes I will strip for parts that I can use to change or repair my current bikes. Most of my six are rideable and easily accessible, four of them living in my coalshed workshop, so within easy reach if I want to do something on them. I know that if I had any more I would just do less with and to them. Other than that I have loads of pictures of Wigry, Jubilat and Turing bikes I come across, so much easier to store.
