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<\/p>\nHow many bikes do you have?\u00a0 How many bikes to you need?\u00a0\u00a0 Well now, those are a couple of serious questions that simply can not be answered simply.\u00a0\u00a0Yes these are some of the things that keep me awake at night.\u00a0 Don’t ask me why. \u00a0I don’t why. These are\u00a0just some of the stuff that floats around between my ears from time to time.\u00a0\u00a0 There are a multitude of\u00a0sects in the tribe of bike riding tribe.\u00a0\u00a0I think the largest group is the one bike – because well I got one bike\u00a0crowd.\u00a0\u00a0 These folks are not really tied to\u00a0having just one bike, but that is what they have.\u00a0\u00a0 There\u00a0may of\u00a0course be “The Old Bike”\u00a0 (or\u00a0part of\u00a0it)\u00a0hanging\u00a0from the garage rafters but for the most part they are the one-bike folks.<\/p>\n
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Then there are the one bike purist camps.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not even going to go into the the sub-group of the one bike – one gear folks.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not that they could not have another bike in the stables, they only want one bike.\u00a0\u00a0I have to admit that I like the concept of one bike and the simplier (and\u00a0often more challenging)\u00a0experience of riding in a one bike world.\u00a0\u00a0 I even know\u00a0a guy who rides a rigid singlespeed fixie.\u00a0 He even rides it on some gnarly trails, bottom line is the guy has mad skills to do such a thing.<\/p>\n
Me, well I think I am in the more reasonable group (okay not more reasonable, let’s go with more common).\u00a0\u00a0 I have multiple bikes.\u00a0\u00a0There is the XC\u00a0Full-Suspension rig, the\u00a0hardtail,\u00a0the singlespeed, the old long-legged bike,\u00a0the new long-legged bike, as well as a couple of frames waiting to be pressed back into service.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yep, plenty of\u00a0bikes in my garage.\u00a0 Bikes are like a good handcrafted beer.\u00a0 There are plenty of great ones out there and what kinda of person would not like to enjoy all different types of the them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mean I love a good IPA, but you know I also like Imperial Stouts,\u00a0\u00a0 Porters, and all sorts of other yummy beverages.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some days I want reach for that Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin Ale but then there is the Dogfishhead Squall IPA.\u00a0 Or maybe its the Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout, ohh I know the Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale.\u00a0\u00a0 They choices go on and on and on over the tasty dark malt beverage horizon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A couple months ago Bicycling Magazine did a piece on Sam Calagione, the owner of Dogfish Head Brewery, discussing his love for brewing and cycling.\u00a0\u00a0 He made a comment about the microbrewing competition out there that I thought was really awesome.\u00a0 “…I embrace it. Craft-beer drinkers are promiscuous–I drink plenty of other beers.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well I think mountianbikers much like craft-beer drinkers (amazing how many mountainbikers are also craft-beer nuts) are a promiscuous bunch as well.\u00a0\u00a0 If we can get away with it, for the most part, we will have more than one bike.<\/p>\n
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Such was the case this past Sunday,\u00a0 not just about beer, but about bikes.\u00a0\u00a0 Sure I have a brand new UZZI that I am complete digging, but Santa Cruz was having a demo day out at Lake Hodges<\/a> so I felt the urge to see what the new stuff was from these guys.\u00a0\u00a0 Santa Cruz <\/a>and BikeBling<\/a> were putting on the event together and when I got there they were doing some hustling to keep the 30 demo bikes rotating with sizable of pool of folks looking to get onto the latest two-wheeled Santa Cruz creations.<\/p>\n Of course with any such kind of MTB gathering in San Diego County, some of the usual suspects were on the scene and lots of chatting occurred about bikes, trails, potential roadtrips and even some of the latest craft beers to hit the market.\u00a0 It would have been a good morning of\u00a0socializing\u00a0even without the new shiny bits to galk\u00a0and paw over.\u00a0 So how many bikes do I need and how many bikes do\u00a0I own?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well the answer\u00a0that question in the\u00a0simplest of terms in I have have one more bike than I need and one less bike than I want.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/667072b6e56ce8528f5b435b1d7c77c3.jpg?resize=840%2C560\")
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