At what point is it too many

[MIGZ]

I've been thinking and realized I have too many bikes. I'm at about 20 and can only ride one at a time I also pay for a storage unit to keep them in. The Home garage is always being de-cluttered since I like having room to do other things

Where is everyone else.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

You can never have too many. You just have too little storage. I'm currently at 11 bikes but I have owned as many as 50 at one time. A friend of mine has over 200.

 

[FunkyStickman]

Mostly depends on how many your spouse/significant other will let you keep...

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Just buy a bunch of girl's bikes for parts and tell her she owns more bikes than you, you just haven't put them together yet. :wink: :mrgreen:

 

[aka_locojoe]

Like you I'm renting a storage unit which I need to eliminate that bill. I really don't want another shed at the house though. The garage is always half full. I'll be selling off some bikes in near future.

 

[CCR]

Like you I'm renting a storage unit which I need to eliminate that bill. I really don't want another shed at the house though. The garage is always half full. I'll be selling off some bikes in near future.

Same here, still have a storage unit so the shed doesn't get filled up, been selling slowly to one day get rid of that bill as well, right now there's 6 full size bikes and a couple stingrays not in storage and I think I still need to get rid of a few of those. I'd like to get down to 4 or 5 keepers total but I don't know if I can do it :lol: ... all of the sudden I'm starting to wonder if my family will turn me in to Hoarders :lol:

 

[highship]

I would love to get down to 10 or so bikes... at my last count I had 87 bikes, 3 tandems, 3 adult trikes, and 7 kids trikes and that doesn't include the scrap pile. It takes up the basement, garage, and shed which the wife is all cool with. I have started warming her up to the idea of bringing some of the nice ones inside but shes not having it. I guess I should quit while I'm ahead (quit nagging her that is, not collecting bikes) :lol: I am trying to sell a lot of them locally so lets keep our fingers crossed, I would like to cut these numbers in half by the end of the summer :roll:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

:lol: I've only got a 10'x10' shed and it is packed. Every time I clean it out (At least once a year) I have people stop thinking I'm having a yard sale. They all ask how I fit all of it inside the shed. I am planning to sell a bit of my collection so I can buy a second shed and pile it full too. :mrgreen:

I still miss my box truck, it doubled my storage space.

Eventually my goal is to have every year of Schwinn from 1948-1969, a spaceliner, a flightliner, an elgin bluebird, a roadmaster luxury liner, and at least one custom.

So far I have a '54, '56, '58, '66, and '68 Schwinn and a spaceliner. Also may be getting a '61 Schwinn soon.

 

[Philphine]

when i moved to my current house i was able to lose the rental spaces, but they also had as much or really more other things than bikes. my real hoarding started with getting the big garage i have now. i definitely need to lose quite a few bikes and parts as it is. if i had to rent space beyond what i have that would be taking it way too far.

 

[dragnusa]

I have 46 bikes which 10 of them are family bikes and the other 36 are either being built or waiting to be built to be sold off.

 

[Buck Masterson]

I say it depends on the reason. If you have space and collect certain bikes, or if you try to make a profit AND you have the space, or you have a large family with everyone having 2 or 3 bikes like I do many bikes are acceptable, otherwise it's simply hoarding, and that is an illness.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

I see it as collecting, everyone else sees it as hoarding. I try to only collect ones that have an unusual frame geometry, unusual parts, or Schwinns. The Schwinns are eventually going to be restored so I can see the slight changes from year to year and model to model like my own private museum. :mrgreen:

 

[expjawa]

I see it as collecting, everyone else sees it as hoarding.

I was wearing a t-shirt earlier that I got for Christmas that says "Bicycle Hoarder" on it. I've got somewhere around 30-35; it helps that I decided not to keep track. :mrgreen: Around half of them are intended for either parts or refurb/resale, but sometimes reselling these things around here is difficult. The others fall into the rider catagory or projects-to-be (or, I suppose, riders that are to be projects before becoming riders again!). My long term goal is to try to establish some form of community bike shop. I think my area is ripe for one, I just haven't figured out the how (or how to fund) part yet. I may have overly front loaded the inventory though... :wink:

 

[MadMax '58]

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[MIGZ]

I currently own about 20 bikes of which I can only ride one at a time. I have actually bought paint jobs rather than new bike b/c a lot of them share the same frames, I do small stuff to change them up but in reality they are the same frames that ride the same.

I have recently really enjoyed building custom bikes of older bikes but once I build them I don't want to sell them. If i keep this pattern I am going to have way too many bikes.

Sad part is as much as I want to think these bikes are going to be worth anything in the future the reality is they are not. I will have spent so much on purchasing the bike and storage over the years that I would have to sell them for more money than anyone would actually give me to brake even.

I really hate the thought of selling some of them but it may come to that.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Who says you can only ride one at a time?

 

[roadmaster]

Currently, I have two my wife's new SGK 7speed cruiser in the kitchen, my main 3 rides in the corner in my living room, two of my oldies (62' Schwinn and a 60' AMF) and my new 2012 Schwinn Clairmont "step-thru" framed cruiser as my grocery getter in the spare room, dubbed the "bike room", for a total of 7 in the house. Out back I have two adult trikes, a 68' Schwinn racer, 78' Schwinn Spitfire 5, 60' Schwinn world 3speed, a 60's Ross "step-thru" framed ss cruiser, a 86' Murray montery and 7 other random loaner and thrasher cheapo mountain bikes for a total of 14 out back. Then I have my Solex powered 49cc bike, a 96' Specialized and a 82' Shogun sport funny bike 12speed road bike in a shed, bringing my total to 24 on this proporty.

But wait, I am taking two three speeds down to my other house down south where I have 2 more mountain bikes, two more old 3speeds and 6 more cruisers for a total of 12 there and making a grand total of 36 rideable as of right now, and 4 or 5 parts bikes as well.

I am lucky to have a wife who lets me keep bringing home bikes and supports me. I sometimes feel like I have too many, but as long as I have them parked and stored neatly, nobody seems to mind. :mrgreen:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

My shed as of today Do I have a problem with hoarding bicycles?....No I hoard them just fine. :mrgreen:

 

[Gold Street Customs]

When it comes time to move, you will find out when you have too many, ask me how I know :lol:

 

[jwm]

I have a fleet consisting of eight rideable bikes (and two not rideable, one of which is a junker). That gives me a matched pair of fifties bikes, a matched pair of sixties bikes, a loaner, a chopper, a ratster/rider, and my wife's rider. Any more than this, and it turns into a collection, so I have a one-in, one out policy in effect right now. That still lets me get rid of the two unrideable bikes, and replace them with something else. I have conflicting interests. I want to build another custom on a girl's bike frame, but I'd also like another pair of classics- either Shelby, or Monark, but most anything as long as it isn't another pair of Schwinns. Maybe by this summer the income will start looking better...

JWM