I've considered this subject a few times recently. I am hoping to semi- retire next year and relocate to smaller place near the ocean, perhaps with only a one car garage. what bike or what few bikes would I choose to do the riding Ilike to do. I would want a lightweight fast road bike with 28mm tires, an allrounder that could handle 40mm tires, a touring bike with racks, a bomber mountain bike with 2.2 knobbies and a cheap urban bike that won't attack attention locked to a pole. I also need to consider space for our tandem and wifes urban bike.
I can't see to get down to below 2. Maybe a 650B Hilsen with two wheelsets and perhaps a Hunqapillar, Bombadil or Fargo would work. On 2nd thought I better look for a two car garage. ~Mike~ On Sep 1, 8:20 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > define can't. With a Bombadil and maybe 4 sets of tires and maybe 3 > > handlebar/cockpit setups, I'd argue that there is no ride under the > > big umbrella of "it all' that this theoretical one bike "can't do". > > In order to say that it can't, I think you'd have to bring in > > qualitative stuff like my Bombadil with road tires and drop bars can't > > be 23 lbs. Or that a moderate fitness level person can't keep up with > > similarly fit riders on MRCBs. Or that nobody could win the Tuesday > > night Crit on it. > > Not so much the competition stuff - I could care less about organized > amateur (or pro for that matter) riding. But rather the certain > magical ride quality a bike made with thin wall tubing, be it 531, > Columbia SL or the modern equivalents the Bomb could never match. > > If the Bomb owner does not care about this admittedly subjective > pleasure, than maybe the Bomb is the only bike needed. > > For me if I were to have only one bike it would probably be a Hilsen. > Maybe 650b so I could use real fat tires for off/rough road. > > On Sep 1, 9:43 am, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > OK, I'll play: > > > "one bike can't do it all - I've tried. " > > > define can't. With a Bombadil and maybe 4 sets of tires and maybe 3 > > handlebar/cockpit setups, I'd argue that there is no ride under the > > big umbrella of "it all' that this theoretical one bike "can't do". > > In order to say that it can't, I think you'd have to bring in > > qualitative stuff like my Bombadil with road tires and drop bars can't > > be 23 lbs. Or that a moderate fitness level person can't keep up with > > similarly fit riders on MRCBs. Or that nobody could win the Tuesday > > night Crit on it. > > > Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person in the world that would try to > > get by with one bike, but if I did want to live in a studio apartment > > and have only one bike, I bet I could have something that could cover > > everything I wanted to do on a bike, and that there would be nothing > > that I wanted to do on a bike that could not be done on that one > > bike. > > > On Aug 31, 6:26 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Define "enough". > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Pondero <cj.spin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ...but can one bike do enough? > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > Patrick Moore > > > Albuquerque, NM > > > For professional resumes, contact > > > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
