>>This has me wondering what some of you guys do with all of your bikes?<<
Ride 'em.
Ride 'em.
>>This has me wondering what some of you guys do with all of your bikes?<<
Ride 'em.
I get the concept, but for some reason I pick favorites. My current ride is this Schwinn Cruiser Four...Ride a different one each day.
I have a neighbor like that, he's into Model A's and has sever barns with all kinds of stuff. At 76 he is still hanging on to every nut and bolt. Bikes are a bit easier to store...unless you have 4000 of courseHe won't give or sell me anything, but looking at his stuff is sooo cool. I am working on him slowly. I told him I would do a restoration on one of his wooden wheeled bikes and he said he would think about it. That was last year.
I have a really big upstairs bathroom so I said, what the heck, a bike won't take much room...right? My wife disagreed...so I moved it to my game room....came home and my wife moved it into our walk in attic. The upside is that at least she diodn't toss it outside.Said I'd never have any inside the house. Just counted 6 in 2 rooms and have 3 in the garage, and 4 in an outside shed. These are my keepers. I have a pile of junk bikes for those little parts that you can't buy, a ton of wheels, tires, and parts, and a few frames that may or may not see restoration. I have flipped more on CL than I can count, and looked at 2 garage sales for flippers today. (no luck). Sheryl is cool, some of these are hers, and as I told her, I've yet to list a bike that didn't sell. Flippers pay for the hobby for me.
Years ago there was an old rundown farm house I used to pass when driving to Sault Ste. Marie and he had the ultimate in bicycle yard art. He had a cone shaped stack of bicycles taller than his two story house. I don't know how he stacked them? It was only there for a few years.I've wondered about the guy that supposedly has 4000 bikes,I kinda wonder what the neighbors think.
Congrats on 8 years sober,I'm a recovered junk addict myself. 20 years in November,still drink beer but that's as strong as it gets.I sold a cook bros a redline sq back and a robinson r gusset 5 years ago and paid my dads property taxes...its like a bank account .
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I haven't been collecting for 20 years,I'm actually pretty new to the bicycle thing.But if you're in my area you're welcome to stop by to check out my garage.Id love to see a pic of 20 years of collecting . Even better to see it in person ...like a living episode of pickers....
Thanks for the thumbs up ...rrb is part of my new addction to heavy weight bikes .
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