Bike Storage Solution

Bike is missing a chainstay

The great thing here is that the owners have made the right decision for their property.

No more or less ugly than the bins outside, and I'm guessing there are dozens of cars parked on footpaths outside each house which certainly clash with the period-correct nature of the "protected structure".

Christ that's an absolute eyesore alright, the material it's made from looks like a giant wheelie bin! There are far more elegant solutions they could have gone for - you'd imagine someone who owned a house of that stature would like to put in something less garish.

Is that not just a giant moisture trap?

This thread is ridiculous. Why bring bins, EV cables and cable cutters into it (including links to cable cutters). It’s bike storage outside a house. Live and let live….

Ignorance of the (planning) laws is no excuse. It's a gross looking thing and IMHO does detract from the attractiveness of the house an surrounds. Hard to believe upgrading the security of the garage and even installing an external light wouldn't have been a more economic and attractive solution.

The logic of that is that anything is permissable once there is on-street parking!

Not commenting on the green yoke in picture, but if I were compelled to find a bike storage solution in the front lawn - I would dig into the ground - 2m long, a meter wide, and deep enough to take a bike or two. Concrete the sides with some 6 inches sticking out of the ground and put a solid lid and nice lock to secure the lot. May attract grave robbers, but it will make an awesome prop for Halloween.

place we were staying in in Belgium recently had one of these in the front garden - great yoke, designed for 4 bikes but you'd fit 6 at a squeeze.

get a really big wheelie bin and store your bike in that - problem solved!

I put an awning on the side of the house and usually throw my road bike under there for easy access (my shed is down the bottom of the garden). It's by no means completely rainproof, but the bike is over 10 years old so I'm beyond caring about some rust on the bolts etc. My even older shopping bike just sits out the front.

Just came across this as another option (no idea of the quality) - you could plant a hedge around it to shield the neighbours' eyes from the horror of bike storage.

I used to for a couple of years in Dublin 8, house had a back yard but no rear or side entrance so used to lock the bike to railings on private driveway and bike was beside the house in from the road/entrance. That was all well and good until one morning when leaving for work to only find by lock cut in two. Was an old Raleigh Activator bike but in great condition and suited by short commute. Not only can you not have nice things in Ireland/Dublin but you can't even have old but functional things.

Replacement bike then had to be brought through the hall and kitchen and out into the yard which was a pain especially and wet/miserable days traipsing muck through the house.

Cycled by this recently on Lawrence's Road. Doesn't look any worse than the contents of other people's driveways. Bins, skips, cars, vans, overgrown gardens.

Some residents of that road have form. They came together before to launch a legal challenge about a house for homeless people on the road.

Pretty sure I've seen a similar bike storage in Marino before, where the neighbours clearly don't have notions. If I was this resident I'd be complaining to the council about every house on the road storing their wheelie bins out front, and try to instill a bit of cop on amongst the residents and council alike.