On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8:14:01 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: Deep down, I don't think any of us want just one bike and the reason we think we do is because we want it to save us from ourselves, if that makes any sense
That may make sense for you, but not for me. When I moved to Munich in 2007, I moved with just one bike, the custom Road bike I'd just gotten delivered. When my girlfriend visited for 3 months we brought over the tandem, which made for 2 bikes. I never felt the need for more bikes, and when my girlfriend moved back to the USA the tandem just sat unused taking up space. After I moved back to the US I lived with just that one road bike and sold the tandem. It's nice to have only one bike to maintain, and it definitely saved all the work involved in trying to decide which bike to take. It was only after I broke that ti frame twice (mind you in between it was 10 years) that I decided that I "deserved" a back up road frame (the Roadini) which is currently set up as a gravel bike. Now in between I bought a mountain bike after my wife and I had kids, and I now have a tandem/triplet/quad convertible for towing kids around, and of course the wife and kids all have their own bikes so now we have a garage full of bikes, which doesn't actually feel all that convenient. For myself, I wouldn't mind going down to just one bike (the Roadini) and maybe just have a couple of sets of wheels to swap around for different needs. Having fewer bikes to maintain is great. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b11302f5-c373-4298-941a-8ec3b6b04748n%40googlegroups.com.
