Bicycles in apartments

I never had to wash my bike in the bath -- that's what the parking space that came with the apartment was for.

I commiserate with anyone with this problem but it is one of the disadvantages of apartment living and you really should have read the house rules before purchasing/renting.
I've seen the other side of the coin as its been my job to fix up halls, stairs and lifts that have been destroyed by people bringing bikes in. It's always easy to follow the trail to the culprits door. I'd have to say that if I lived in a block that this was happening in I'd not be to happy. Why should 1 person be allowed to wreck the communal areas?
In case you think I'm being one sided, I've had my bike robbed from the carpark of the apartment I lived in, and was well p~~~ed off. I now own my own house and despite my best efforts there's chunks taken out of door frames and tyre marks on walls and doors from me bringing my bike in.

On a lighter note, in one place I worked a guy insisted on his right to bring a scooter ( and not the kids type) up in the lift to be parked in the hall outside his door! For the same reason as everyone here, he'd had one stolen outside.

Totally agree. In my case I knew the security guard so we were able to check the security videos, they clearly showed the fat orange guy from the Tango ad robbing it. Turns out most security cameras are rubbish.

It would be better if a sentiment such as this:

"The spirit of the law is not to damage, soil or obstruct the common areas. Therefore, I carry, not wheel, my bike and I do not hit off anything on the way to my apartment."

were not construed, as it has been several times now, as this:

"I wish to gradually damage the common areas because I think I'm more important than everyone else."

The two statements are different.

Also, parking a moped outside your apartment is different from carrying a bike in. I don't regard widespread ignoring of the rule about bringing bikes into apartments as leading to a Vespa parked outside every apartment door.

Don't get me wrong, I think you should keep an expensive clean bike in your apartment.
All I'm saying is that the reason the rule is there is because lots of people don't care about the common areas and wreck them carrying in bikes and this affects lots of people who don't break their house rules.
There's lots of rules in apartments that deserve to be broken, but who gets to decide which ones? I hate blanket rules and hopefully the OP's landlord feels the same.
The simple and obvious solution is live in a house (If you do like your door frames though, it helps not to have 2 kids on your bike while trying to take a tight 90' turn through the front door )

Civilian_Target wrote: »

I can see why they forbid you from carrying a bike if you use it to take chunks out of doors!

(Pedal height) "nicks" out of door frames we'll call it then.

As a parent and a cyclist, I think management companies should ban small children from the interior of apartment blocks. They produce much more perfectly acceptable wear and tear. Along with reducing said wear and tear it would also produce a number of ancillary benefits, including (but not limited to):

1. Provide a keen insight into said management's company's thinking on actually living in your own apartment.
2. Provide a good basis for arguing parity of esteem between the kids and the bikes being in the house.
3. Allow for dirty children to be kept outside until they hose themselves down.

DFD.

Merch wrote: »

some kind of personal storage that they can access easily if they need to do that frequently

Yes, it's called an apartment.

Merch wrote: »

I presume he means pedals taking lumps outta stuff, as a former cyclist it happens eventually no matter how careful you are. While it may seem pedantic, do you clean that mud off or does someone else? and when it needs to be painted, I guess they probably have to paint a whole wall while they're at it as labour will be paid for, I presume that also comes out of the sinking fund which someone pays for.

Better if adequate facilities are in place that allow people to keep their bikes secure.

I've never taken lumps out of stuff with the pedals. I'm generally holding the bike by the axis, with the pedals right beside me, so I don't even understand how that could happen.

Yes, I brush the mud off the next time I'm going downstairs and after it has dried a bit.

The complex does actually provide enough space for me to store the bike in the underground garage, but it's currently filled with junk instead :rolleyes:

I bought my own apt 2 yrs ago and am now considering purchasing a bike. We have nowhere to park bicycles outside, and in a coversation I had recently with a neighbour, I questioned whether or not it would be ok to leave it in the large common area. The response was basically a load of babble about insurance, health and safety blah blah blah, but none of it was actually factual information and all of it was based on the fact that they definitely wouldnt want me leaving it there. (In fact, Id imagine the maintanence company guy was probably contacted 2 mins later and advised that I was considering it.) Doesnt seem to concern them that another neighbour leaves a childs bicycle and a buggy there. So now I dont know what to do. If I bring it into my own apt, I'll be dragging it across carpet, which is obviously going to piss someone else off. I havent actually checked it out offically yet, but must do. Just wish Id held out a few months longer, and bought a house for what the apt cost back then!!! :mad:

Lumen wrote: »

Carry it.

I'll try:eek: