Where do you store your bike?

IrishHomer

I just took my bike out of the turf shed from its winter hibernation and was raging to find lots of rust spots on it

Have no room inside house to store it, just wondering how everyone else manages to store their bikes from this wet country of ours?

abcdggs

two in the sitting room, one in bedroom

DirkVoodoo

Make sure you clean it after every ride. I don't mean "clean clean", just wipe down the drivetrain. I (stupidly) left my MTB (which I'm selling /plug) unattended after winter commuting and the chain was badly corroded from the salty roads. I've had similar happen on my road bike after a wintry spin last year, literally in the space of a few hours between finishing up the spin and cycling it home after work.

Lumen

One in the "office" (junk room), three in the kitchen, two in the shed.

penexpers

Three (soon to be four) in the shed. The kids and missus' bikes are in there too.

rottenhat

Five in the living room (not all mine, honest).

niceonetom

penexpers wrote: »

Three (soon to be four) in the shed. The kids and missus' bikes are in there too.

The missus' bike is fair enough, but you should probably let the children in the house.

jwshooter

under the stairs , brilliant place for them as when i get in i see them and feel guilty if i dont get out.
when herself gets in and one is gone it save her asking a pointless question.:D

blorg

Currently, two in the sitting room (one on a trainer), one on the stairs, three in the hall, one outside (had a cover but it blew off, looking at options), two in work and TinyExplosions has borrowed the other one.

jwshooter

blorg wrote: »

Currently, two in the sitting room (one on a trainer), one on the stairs, three in the hall, one outside (had a cover but it blew off, looking at options), two in work and TinyExplosions has borrowed the other one.

and every one thinks tiger has problems

IM0

blorg wrote: »

Currently.. one on the stairs

how does that work @45 degrees?

Duct tape?

Plastik

Mines inside in a spare room at the moment.

abcdggs

I wish i had a bike room... i presume it's hermetically sealed, temperature and humidity controlled

IM0

abcdggs wrote: »

I wish i had a bike room... i presume it's hermetically sealed, temperature and humidity controlled

and staffed by nakid podium boys girls

cdaly_

Hall (mine), Kitchen (wife's), Dining room (one kid's), garden bike shelter (other two kid's)...

PS. Sorry, I only own one of my own...

buffalo

I feel rather privileged to have an actual garage. My shiny road bike lives on the ceiling, while my commuter sits with the rest of the family's common bikes at ground level.

Signal_ rabbit

Definately the spare room, it's far too cold for my steed out in the shed!

Two in the basement.

My bike is in the bedroom.

Shed.

Crow92

After my carrera crossfire was robbed whilst locked right outside my front door...(and i have a big garden) my new bike stays in the front hall

poochiem

small bike stand I got in Halfords means I can wheel the bike in and prop it in hall, sitting room or bedroom (where it is now) without marking walls etc.

I want to get a maintenance stand has anyone got this one?

I'm looking to move from my apartment and I think it says something that even though I only started cycling a few months ago I'm looking to move into a ground floor place with storage now purely to accommodate the cycling.

Vélo

cdaly_ wrote: »

Hall (mine), Kitchen (wife's), Dining room (one kid's), garden bike shelter (other two kid's)...

PS. Sorry, I only own one of my own...

Please leave and come back when you have at least 3 of your own.

Vélo

I cleared everything out of the shed last summer and have all my bikes in it. I even got electricity put in it so I can have a heater and a light there when working on the bikes.

Sometimes I don't even do any work on them, I just stand there and look at them.

tomasrojo

Front hall for main bike, folder goes in the corner of the spare room with a bag over it to keep the dust off (not used more than once or twice a month).

Explosive_Cornflake

abcdggs

how have you secured the ones on the roof?

Explosive_Cornflake

They're not moved, so I have holes drilled in the joist, and they're tied up with some nylon rope. I have two hooks on the left for another bike that not pictured.

Sarunas

Few people mentioned keeping the bikes in the bedrooms... it must be big rooms as found that the bike does take up a lot of room in bedroom when I brought it in there once...

blorg

Sarunas wrote: »

Few people mentioned keeping the bikes in the bedrooms... it must be big rooms as found that the bike does take up a lot of room in bedroom when I brought it in there once...

IM0

abcdggs wrote: »

how have you secured the ones on the roof?

congo_90

Shed during the hibernation but now midweek it's locked outside but covered with a large cover thing. I try keep it in the shed though as its obviously better than some cover

copacetic

Sarunas wrote: »

Few people mentioned keeping the bikes in the bedrooms... it must be big rooms as found that the bike does take up a lot of room in bedroom when I brought it in there once...

ah, give the poor bike another shot in the bedroom. Once isn't enough, try another position...

seamus

Locked outside the front door. Just too bloody dirty to store in the house, though I'm slowly convincing the wife that wooden floors would work well in the hall.

Problem is that my house is upside-down (it's a duplex) - bedroom downstairs - hall/kitchen/balconies upstairs. I would *wreck* the walls carrying it up and down every day.

That reminds me to get a bigger lock....

TinyExplosions

One in the hallway, one in the closet, Blorg's in the Spare bedroom (soon to be joined by the OH's 2)

Vélo

TinyExplosions wrote: »

One in the hallway, one in the closet, Blorg's in the Spare bedroom (soon to be joined by the OH's 2)

It's my OH's birthday soon and I offered to buy her a bike. To my amazement she said yes.......but then said "I could sell it for clothes".

That's a form of blasphemy, so I might have to issue her with a P45.

Jip

Mines in the very small utility room we have, and with my wife over 7 months pregnant she's getting increasingly exasperated with it being there as she can now no longer get to the back door or a cupboard out there with the bump in the way. I think I'll have to sneak it into the attic soon, I've already resisted putting it into the shed.

Junior

It's in the gym next to the office, where the rollers are and the Mountain bike is folornly fecked ..

Beasty

TinyExplosions wrote: »

One in the hallway, one in the closet, Blorg's in the Spare bedroom (soon to be joined by the OH's 2)

Blorg's in your spare bedroom, soon to be joined by your 2 OHs :eek:
What sort of "establishment" are you running, Tiny?

kenmc

Commuter and MTB in the shed with all the beer. Road bike and OHs bike upstairs in the spare bedroom (her bike is lighter and currently less used than my MTB)

IM0

seamus wrote: »

Problem is that my house is upside-down (it's a duplex) - bedroom downstairs - hall/kitchen/balconies upstairs.

FYP. Your house just happens to be a duplex, they are not all in this layout
Im also in a duplex. and its a *normal* layout.

seamus

me@ucd wrote: »

FYP. Your house just happens to be a duplex, they are not all in this layout
Im also in a duplex. and its a *normal* layout.

Just explaining why there's only one room downstairs. Well, one room, a hallway and a toilet...

TinyExplosions

Beasty wrote: »

Blorg's in your spare bedroom, soon to be joined by your 2 OHs :eek:
What sort of "establishment" are you running, Tiny?

Did I not mention I'm Mormon....

Raam

Three in the porch, one in the kitchen, six upstairs in the junkroom.

el tel

I keep two in one garage and two more plus a couple of frames and assorted bits in the other.

Captain Havoc

Mines in a shed full of clutter. As soon as I get a car I'll be driving with all that carp to the local dump so to have a bike shed, which will also house the new bikes.

velo.2010

One in the conservatory, another two in the pool house, one more in the gate house, three in the guests apartment and a few doted around the stables!