The ones that lean on the wall and hold two bikes, right? I thought of buying those, but:
The Bike I Ride Most Days: is the Novara Randonnee, which is the only diamond frame of the bunch and probably weighs the least.
The Other Bikes: the 1961 Lady's Raleigh Sports, which weighs a shit-ton, and which I ride the least, and the New-ish Linus Mixte, which weighs about as much as the Novara. Both are step-through frames. Which means those racks won't work. (I own a fake top-tube somewhere, but what a pain in the ass to use all the time.) And logically I'd want to put the Raleigh on top, since I ride it the least; but I am physically incapable of getting it into a repair stand, much less a wall rack.
The company that owns our building prides itself on being bike-friendly (like, all the buildings have bicycles in the damn logo) but of course we picked the building that didn't have actual bike parking in the building. (Other buildings have hang-up racks on each floor.) They will put hooks in the wall (and a plate so the rear wheel doesn't damage anything) if we ask, but....we have so little wall space already, and all FOUR bicycles have wide-swept handlebars (the Novara has drop bars...but they're Salsa Woodchippers!), so they could easily take up a whole damn wall. I think we're better off just wheeling them in and, like, leaning them on bookshelves or something.
In theory I should get rid of a bike--who the hell needs two three-speed upright bicycles?! But...the Raleigh is my first love (seriously, I need a tattoo of that heron chainring), and I love riding her on parade-y rides, and then again, the Linus is far more practical--a rear rack! Dynamo lighting! And I only ride the Novara to work because I'm riding so damn far (and about to ride longer--my commute, when I move, goes from 8.2 miles to 9.6, each way!), in the next year or so I should make the "career" position at work and then I'll be at a different station and it's unlikely to be way the fuck out in Oak Grove and I'll be happy to ride the Linus if it's not so damn far.
On the other other hand, I'm hoping to get a custom touring bike in the next year or two, and yeah I'll chuck the Novara but then I'll still have three bikes and I'll prolly want to ride the custom one a bunch.....
FUCK
(I've always been N+1 in terms of "how many bikes do I need" but with Seamus I might end up being S-1! Well, he's not S, unless you mean "significant other" instead of "spouse.")
(For the non-cyclists: There's an old joke about how many bikes a person should have. N+1 is where N is the number of bikes you currently own. S-1 is where S is the number of bikes that causes your spouse to leave you. Yes, many of us have multiple bicycles. I have three.)
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The Bike I Ride Most Days: is the Novara Randonnee, which is the only diamond frame of the bunch and probably weighs the least.
The Other Bikes: the 1961 Lady's Raleigh Sports, which weighs a shit-ton, and which I ride the least, and the New-ish Linus Mixte, which weighs about as much as the Novara. Both are step-through frames. Which means those racks won't work. (I own a fake top-tube somewhere, but what a pain in the ass to use all the time.) And logically I'd want to put the Raleigh on top, since I ride it the least; but I am physically incapable of getting it into a repair stand, much less a wall rack.
The company that owns our building prides itself on being bike-friendly (like, all the buildings have bicycles in the damn logo) but of course we picked the building that didn't have actual bike parking in the building. (Other buildings have hang-up racks on each floor.) They will put hooks in the wall (and a plate so the rear wheel doesn't damage anything) if we ask, but....we have so little wall space already, and all FOUR bicycles have wide-swept handlebars (the Novara has drop bars...but they're Salsa Woodchippers!), so they could easily take up a whole damn wall. I think we're better off just wheeling them in and, like, leaning them on bookshelves or something.
In theory I should get rid of a bike--who the hell needs two three-speed upright bicycles?! But...the Raleigh is my first love (seriously, I need a tattoo of that heron chainring), and I love riding her on parade-y rides, and then again, the Linus is far more practical--a rear rack! Dynamo lighting! And I only ride the Novara to work because I'm riding so damn far (and about to ride longer--my commute, when I move, goes from 8.2 miles to 9.6, each way!), in the next year or so I should make the "career" position at work and then I'll be at a different station and it's unlikely to be way the fuck out in Oak Grove and I'll be happy to ride the Linus if it's not so damn far.
On the other other hand, I'm hoping to get a custom touring bike in the next year or two, and yeah I'll chuck the Novara but then I'll still have three bikes and I'll prolly want to ride the custom one a bunch.....
FUCK
(I've always been N+1 in terms of "how many bikes do I need" but with Seamus I might end up being S-1! Well, he's not S, unless you mean "significant other" instead of "spouse.")
(For the non-cyclists: There's an old joke about how many bikes a person should have. N+1 is where N is the number of bikes you currently own. S-1 is where S is the number of bikes that causes your spouse to leave you. Yes, many of us have multiple bicycles. I have three.)