Best Bike - Where do you keep yours

kellys_heroes
kellys_heroes Posts: 88
edited November 2007 in The bottom bracket
my girlfriend happened to tell her sister,where i keep my bike, and i was met by shakes of the head and her telling me thats terrible it should be in the garage...when i said there is little room in the house and i keep it in the spare room..not that i am name dropping. but i have not raced in 5 years.so i decided to treat myself to a Litespeed - Chorus groupset. i said you cant keep your good bike in a cold garage especially where i live in the scottish borders and it can get well under the freezing mark for many`s a week...so has anyone else tried to explain this thing to their other halfs or friends.they dont understand us cyclists :D
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  • sprintkid
    sprintkid Posts: 315
    I keep all three of my bikes in the spare room along with all my tools and my workstand. I have a very understanding fiance :D
    sprintkid
  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    my good bike lives in the conservatory on it;s workstand - holding it upright against the wall

    it gets some funny looks from friends / family right enough
  • homercles
    homercles Posts: 499
    In the living room leaning against the feature wall. Well, it's cheaper than artwork (and it makes me smile every time I stop to stare).







    God help me.
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    Pompino
    CF SLX
  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    The 2 best bikes and my commuter hang over the boiler in the boiler room. My wife's commuter is on a pulley system thing in the utility. Edinburgh flats are great because the ceilings are nice and high.
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Mine and my girlfriends road bikes live in the dining room of my house. I used to leave my old bike in the shed but since I got a carbon bike and a girlfriend with a posh alu bike I couldn't take the risk. It's pathetic but I think I might shed tears if they were stolen!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Mog Uk
    Mog Uk Posts: 964
    Mountain bike, wifes bike, winter bike and motorbike in the garage....

    My new road bike is 'still' in the conservatory, thinking of putting a pot plant on the seat and making it a feature...
    Manchester Wheelers' Club
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...hanging upside down in the garage...like a vampire :twisted:
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    In my bike shed, on rubber coated hooks - all five of them snuggle up together under the old blanket that I put across 'em to spare them from people peering in through the windows should I leave the blinds open :)
    What do I ride? Now that's an Enigma!
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    All 3 of my bikes live in my flat in the utility room. No way would I leave any of them outside!
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    McBain_v1 wrote:
    In my bike shed, on rubber coated hooks - all five of them snuggle up together under the old blanket that I put across 'em to spare them from people peering in through the windows should I leave the blinds open :)

    This is something else I need - a bike shed. What's yours like? how secure is it?
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  • Doom
    Doom Posts: 133
    kellys heroes wrote:
    i said you cant keep your good bike in a cold garage

    I keep all 4 of my bikes in the house. The commuter and mountain bike live in the cupboard under the stairs. My two roadbikes live in their own cupboard upstairs next to my bedroom. Wouldn't dare have any of them not under lock and key!!
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  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    Mine's in the breakfast room, so I can cast admiring glances at it before I leave for work. This irritates my wife no end....
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I keep mine under a feather duvet in the spare bedroom. Couldn't bear to think how cold my bike would be without it, central heating too. :oops:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • powenb
    powenb Posts: 296
    I keep all my bikes in a carpetted garage.
    All in Ultimate RAKK stands.
    Plus my weights are in there.
    The missus isn't allowed in, and is definately not allowed to put anything in there!! :lol:
  • Random Vince
    Random Vince Posts: 11,374
    i live on my own in a flat, so my bikes all live in the office / studdy (two bedroom flat) next to the freezer in the space that a model railway (something to do on long winter nights) eventually will go on a shelf above,

    can fit three bikes there, so room for expantion :)

    the skateboards all lean up in the hallway next to the shoe rack
    My signature was stolen by a moose

    that will be all

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  • Jeff Jones
    Jeff Jones Posts: 1,865
    My two good bikes are in the living/dining/office/spare room (I live in a spacious attic mansion). My winter bike is at the bottom of the stairs, just inside my front door. It's a bit of a pain carrying a bike up four flights of stairs, but better than leaving it out in the cold cold night.
    Jeff Jones

    Product manager, Sports
  • feel
    feel Posts: 800
    best bike and touring bike in garage with two Italian motorbikes, mountainbike in shed with wife's bike and son's bike. Youngest son's bike is in the garden :oops: Well i did tell him to put it away.
    We are born with the dead:
    See, they return, and bring us with them.
  • newburb_1968
    newburb_1968 Posts: 114
    I bought a new metal shed, and set it up pushed the wife and childrens bikes into the new shed.
    Could not face putting my bike in there at present moment, even though the wife keeps hinting around timescales on removing it from the kitchin.
    "It's just not secure enough"
    I think it blends in well with the floor tiles and wall.
  • benny2891
    benny2891 Posts: 68
    Sorry to be really naive...

    Aside from theft, is there any harm in keeping a bike outside "in the cold" ? I've only got the one (a respectable but modest Giant SCR3) and it currently lives out on the back terrace. It's protected from rain / sleet / snow / whatever by the roof above. Other than that, it's exposed to the elements.

    Live in a small flat with a kid on the way, so it's going to take MAJOR negotiations with Mrs. 2891 to bring the bike inside.
  • chrisjsmith
    chrisjsmith Posts: 280
    I've got 2 children in a 2 bed maisonette. The bike lives in the kitchen. Our nazi neighbour won't let me keep it outside as we share a garden.
  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    Push dog $h1t thru your neightbour's letter box until he relents and lets you keep your bike outside :wink:
    What do I ride? Now that's an Enigma!
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    We are currently building an extension. A key deisgn feature is what my wife has amusingly and ambiguously called "the utility room". Let's be more precise:

    It measures 3.2m by 3.9m and has the side door to the house as well as a shower room next door. Would anyone be surprised if I told them I will be calling it "the bike room"?

    We move in soon, and I cannot wait to see my lovely bikes hanging up and ready to go...
    "There are holes in the sky,
    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • chrisjsmith
    chrisjsmith Posts: 280
    LOL - your testicles are in for a hard time.
    McBain_v1 wrote:
    Push dog $h1t thru your neightbour's letter box until he relents and lets you keep your bike outside :wink:

    Place stinks of poop already - probably wouldn't notice.
  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    My winter bike is currently leaning up against the sitting room wall :oops: well I do live alone these days ,otherwise I would never get away with it.
    My collection of frames and bits are stored in 2x unused bedrooms .(nice n warm) sounds great but I'd gladly exchange a 4xbedroom cottage for a one bed flat in exchange for a partner who cycles .My ex only has time for her flipping horses these days. She's got 13 in at the moment but funnily enough I always got stick for having three o four bikes ???? :cry::cry::cry:
  • peanut
    peanut Posts: 1,373
    benny2891 wrote:
    Sorry to be really naive...

    Aside from theft, is there any harm in keeping a bike outside "in the cold" ? I've only got the one (a respectable but modest Giant SCR3) and it currently lives out on the back terrace. It's protected from rain / sleet / snow / whatever by the roof above. Other than that, it's exposed to the elements.

    Live in a small flat with a kid on the way, so it's going to take MAJOR negotiations with Mrs. 2891 to bring the bike inside.

    well if you come home and find someone has half inched bits of your bike I expect you'll know the answer to that one. It will still rust outside because of the damp, humidity, frost, dew etc
  • Mog Uk
    Mog Uk Posts: 964
    Sorted !!

    The wife walked straight past it this morning and never even noticed... result :D:lol:

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  • Brawlyrox
    Brawlyrox Posts: 38
    Mog, thats class. Mine will be living in the kitchen.
  • kaacp
    kaacp Posts: 93
    Special K wrote:

    It measures 3.2m by 3.9m and has the side door to the house as well as a shower room next door. Would anyone be surprised if I told them I will be calling it "the bike room"?

    I bought an apartment with what the brochure called a 'store room'... it's a 'bike room' to me. Both bikes come indoors, three flights of stairs to get them all the way to the bike room. So Monday to Friday the commuter bike lives in my hall, which involves only 2 flights of stairs (it's a duplex). And I deliberately got the stairs and hall tiled so that it doesn't matter if the bikes (and me in my rain gear) drip all over the place on wet days. :)
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  • bryanm
    bryanm Posts: 218
    2 of my bikes live in the dining room...... There's not actually much room for dining, but the table's handy to keep the tools and bits on when I'm mucking about with them!
  • wastelander
    wastelander Posts: 557
    Best bike, winter bike, mountain bike plus g/f's road/mountain bikes, motobike and car all live in the locked/alarmed garage

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