As a business builder I don't really have a fixed number of bikes other than there is always a couple here ready to ride. I try to keep a 'Personal Ride' around but tend to keep wanting to try new things and let them go if the price is right or I get new thing to try bug.
I am between bikes now but here are a couple of my previous Personal Rides.
Bad Mojo
This Giant Suede bike went through 3 transitions from it's original form which was a stock 48cc Skyhawk jackshafted to the Suede's internal 3-speed and the bike I am on in my icon pic here, to a performance maxed 66cc Skyhawk with NuVinci Dev Kit programmable fully automatic internal hub shifter until I shreaded that NuVinci hub, to the same maxed 66cc with a custom glass pack muffler and an internal 3-speed before I named it Bad Mojo after a wreck and sold it.
I gave the NuVinci N170 hub a try with a performance maxed 66cc Skyhawk on a Cadillac Fleetwood.
Note this is a bad idea. I shredded the first NuVinci but the second held up if I didn't try to power shift drag race it.
I liked the Caddy and built a few more ending with this Electric Caddy as my Personal Ride.
That was supposed to be my final Personal Ride and I loved the thing!
I replaced the stock fork with a nice dual piston fork with a V-brake and set of handlebars that were as naturally comfortable riding for me as I have ever felt.
Clean, comfortable, virtually maintenance free and ready to ride with the flick of a switch.
36V 960W was OK but it suffered from a bad battery that limited it to about 3 miles so when I had the chance to use the rest of the electric kit in a shifting trike I did.
The trike is use now with the old battery and the new one for a custom trike pack that should be here next week, and the Caddy is in the bike stall being re-tasked as my shop foreman buddy Jason's new Personal Ride as a 48cc Skyhawk shifter.
What's next for my Personal Ride?
It has to be better than the last.
A 1KV+ 48V Electric Shifter 'assist' for sure, the only question that remains is what riding base I choose to 'assist' next because that Electric Caddy set my comfort bar pretty high and there are some pretty cool exotic bicycles out there that could never take gas but could take Electric ;-}