Hobby? Obsession? Collection? Insanity?
Just a pic of all my bikes in my grotty garage. This pile consists of 3 working bikes, 3 works in progress and 8 frames in purgatory. I've got a bin full of parts that need to be processed, a bunch of wheels and even more half used tyres, handlebars, racks front and rear, mudguards, seized shocks, mountains of stems, cranks and pedals, old cassetes, chains and inner tubes, derailleurs, shifters and various brake parts. My aim is to get all these bikes into running condition and either sell them off or rent them out (I live in a highly touristic area). The problem is that I have a full time job, a full time hobby (actually riding the working bikes) and a full time girlfriend, leaving little time for actually working on this mass of bike parts. What do you think of this collection? Am I a hoarder? Am I delusional in thinking I can actually make use of it all? Should I just jumble sale it all away? Or, should I keep hoarding and slowly chipping away until I am ultimately the owner of 15 Franken bikes, finally living my dream of having more bikes than friends? (Which it I'm honest, is actually already true).
Just a pic of all my bikes in my grotty garage. This pile consists of 3 working bikes, 3 works in progress and 8 frames in purgatory. I've got a bin full of parts that need to be processed, a bunch of wheels and even more half used tyres, handlebars, racks front and rear, mudguards, seized shocks, mountains of stems, cranks and pedals, old cassetes, chains and inner tubes, derailleurs, shifters and various brake parts. My aim is to get all these bikes into running condition and either sell them off or rent them out (I live in a highly touristic area). The problem is that I have a full time job, a full time hobby (actually riding the working bikes) and a full time girlfriend, leaving little time for actually working on this mass of bike parts. What do you think of this collection? Am I a hoarder? Am I delusional in thinking I can actually make use of it all? Should I just jumble sale it all away? Or, should I keep hoarding and slowly chipping away until I am ultimately the owner of 15 Franken bikes, finally living my dream of having more bikes than friends? (Which it I'm honest, is actually already true).