Bikes a plenty

We’ve managed to collect a fleet of bicycles.

I got a Giant mountain bike for my 16^th birthday and used that for riding around town, getting to tennis practice, exercise and even did a triathlon on it. I left the bike in my parents’ garage when I migrated east. Post-college (still living back east) I got into road riding and bought an old steel frame Centurion that I used for commuting, road rides, triathlons and even used it for a 425 mile week-long ride and a century ride (100 miles in a day.) After an insane period of work I used the overtime and bonus to get a fabulous new road bike. The other two bikes had made their way back to me so I find myself with three.

The fabulous new bike is for sure a keeper. The old road bike was a candidate for a commuter bike, but it really just doesn’t fit and gives me a a neck ache, so that one is destined for the auction block. The mountain bike, though graced with the speed and agility of a tank, currently holds the position of “commuter” and I have no intentions of upgrading.

Now Christopher ALSO has three bicycles - his fancy new road bike (not as fancy or as new as my road bike though!), a mountain bike of good quality and an almost new official commuter bike. Christopher does not like his commuter bike and doesn’t regard his mountain bike as a good commuter for him. So the current plan o’ action is to sell the mountain bike (and possibly the commuter bike as well) either in exchange for a suitable bike for commuting or for cash to use to buy a suitable bike for commuting.

However, the recent availability on Craig’s List of exactly what he is looking for seems to imply that he will be buying the new commuter before off-loading some of the existing bikes. I think if this happens we will have reached a ludicrous number of bicycles. Four between the two of us is sort of pushing it, but can be reasonably explained. Six is a little harder and only acceptable when you realize that we are attempting to sell some of them. Seven, however, just smacks of compulsive, crazy bike hording! Who on earth has a handful (a HANDFUL) of extra bikes?

We have a garage and have joined the ranks of Americans with too much crap stored in their garage to fit a car inside. Except in our case our crap consists of a bit of dog food, a garbage can, one case of beer and SEVEN BICYCLES! Two are hanging from the ceiling.

Know anyone who wants to buy a bicycle?