If you could only have 1 Bike

[dsimon]

SHUT UP DAVE i need room on the slopped TT for my gut....

[tbike4]

It would be steel so my Serotta Atlanta which is cosmetically challenged, I mean it has patina. It just feels right.

[alexstar]

Just one? my Kirk JKS-X with Terraplane seat stays. It killed any desire I had for more road bikes. Ahh, bliss.

[joep2517]

There's nothing that rides as nice as this.

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[Gsinill]

Casati Ellisse

[xeladragon]

My Firefly



With two wheelsets: one with 700x28 slicks for the road, and the other with knobbies for off-road.

And with a 50x34 up-front instead of the 1x I'm running now.

But I would really miss my Zanc and Santa Cruz 5010.

[54ny77]

Probably my Ottrott.

[tv_vt]

Only one bike? Easy - a Hampsten Strada Bianca ti S&S. I'll have that one for the rest of my life.

[choke]

That's a very easy question for me to answer....the Strada Bianca. It will take me pretty much anywhere I want to go on a bike.

[mbrtool]

I have an Ottrott and a Ellis 29er that has clearance for 54mm studded snow tires for the winter. I put 32mm on the Ellis for non winter use. Both are a joy to ride but since having the Ellis I can ride +250 times a year. I'm glad I don't have to pare down to "1" but if I did the Ellis would be it. Hypothetical questions are very difficult to answer accurately.

Ray

[p nut]

Hopefully, we're just talking road bikes. Which would be something like an Open UP, or the new Domane without the dumb Future Shock. Or if custom is on the table, a Ti frame with 27.5x2.2" clearance, and tight road geo.

[eddief]

i've learned a lot about fit, geo, and materials. My new Domane checks all the boxes and it was "off the rack." But numero uno is the Carver. Granted, not hi zoot in any way. Fits perfectly, looks damn decent, and rides the best overall of any of the other 39. Smooth shall we say.

[joosttx]

Those rear dropouts are dope

Originally Posted by xeladragon

My Firefly



With two wheelsets: one with 700x28 slicks for the road, and the other with knobbies for off-road.

And with a 50x34 up-front instead of the 1x I'm running now.

But I would really miss my Zanc and Santa Cruz 5010.

[weisan]

CSI pal, how long you and your sixth wife been married?

[sashae]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

from the bikes I current have, Elephant NFE.

but if I could get a new bike I would do something similar to the elephant, but in titanium (steel fork though). Pretty much a NFE that is 8 lbs lighter.

I think that'd be along the lines of Justin Bagnati's Seven Evergreen, which'd probably be my choice too.

Not his, but a nice execution. I'd go steel fork as well.