The Shed Thread

fourcrossjohn
fourcrossjohn Posts: 2,500
edited August 2009 in MTB general
An idea of every on how to store your bikes and what works well and good ideas such as music,power and work stands.

so post pictures of your sheds and in bigbenj's case new bedroom and say what youve got in there and why you like it

do not list your location such as town,road or number incase you become victim to thieves and pirates if you live on a houseboat

Comments

  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    The corrugated plastic roof bit on the left is all shed/store. Rooms for five bikes, surfboards, garden machinery, etc but guarded by four machine gun towers and a number of claymore mines.

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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,594
    Sounds like a safe residence for the bikes matt, i want my own shed :(
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    I use a workshop with electricity, its not particularly secure but I took out insurance and don't display my bikes to passers by. You need lighting IMO, for fixing bikes at night mainly.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    Garage here..
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Mine's a right out state at the moment (and a garage really). I spent an entire day clearing and cleaning it, had a area for maintenance, room for both mtbs, plenty of room to park the CBR. A place for everything, and everything in it's place.

    THEN my family came to stay. It started small, the odd paint can, then a telly, then a lawn mower. I FOUND A SET OF STEP LADDERS RESTED AGAINST MY COVE!!!!!!!. then my brothers started to bring their crap over to store. We were importing mess!

    They're going home next week. As soon as I'm better I'm going back in there. If it's not mine, it's going and I'm taking the only key for it and keeping it on my person at all times.

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  • Whytepeak
    Whytepeak Posts: 2,616
    Bikes stay in the house :shock:

    All 11 of them :lol: - a couple stay in the garage, but they are 'the undesirables'
    Now that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:1
  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    Don't laugh:

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  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,306
    Kiblams wrote:
    Don't laugh:

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    wow thats alot of tyres :shock:
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    Its only about 6.
  • Hercule Q
    Hercule Q Posts: 2,781
    i keep mine in the shed at my gfs and in my room at my house (rougher area) and i work on it in the garage which is light and clean

    pinkbike
    Blurring the line between bravery and stupidity since 1986!
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
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    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • BurtonM
    BurtonM Posts: 425
    Nicklouse is the winner so far. Whats the purpose of that mini mate?
    yeehaamcgee wrote:

    That's like saying i want a door for my car that doesn't meet the roof, because I once had the wind blow it shut when I was getting in, and I had my head squished between, well, the door and the roof.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    hillclimb/sprints and drag racing.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    She's a beaut Nick, I still have the nut caps off an old Mini from when I was a child (just need the mini now :oops: )

    Those tyres are just old ones, have my slicks on the commutor and my best knobbles on the MTB.
  • Whytepeak
    Whytepeak Posts: 2,616
    nicklouse

    Any lead on 'demon tweeks' - its buzzing in my brain, but i can't remember where it came from.

    Always though your avatar was a HPI :lol:
    Now that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:1
  • Whytepeak wrote:
    nicklouse

    Any lead on 'demon tweeks' - its buzzing in my brain, but i can't remember where it came from.

    Always though your avatar was a HPI :lol:

    demon tweeks .co . uk.

    Nick, you either need a smaller room or more bikes.... I can see floor space!
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    bigbenj_08
    need space for the VAN :wink:

    Whytepeak

    HPI?

    Demon Tweeks

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    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Whytepeak
    Whytepeak Posts: 2,616
    I remember now - was on a red TVR scalextric car - that takes me back :D

    HPI make remote control cars

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    They came in black too...
    Now that we are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. ROMANS 15:1
  • nicklouse wrote:
    bigbenj_08
    need space for the VAN :wink:

    Whytepeak

    HPI?

    Demon Tweeks

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    Space for the van :roll:
    the van is just another storage areas for bikes!! MORE BIKES!
  • CanalRider
    CanalRider Posts: 194
    Kiblams lose the tyres or put them in the shed. They are an indcator of a MTB enthusist who may have a couple of bikes worth nicking... wonder where they could be.

    And to kep the thread on topic, mine are in a garage with an exercise bike that the wife bought and doesn't use a computer desk and a shit load of crap.

    I must look at increased garage security without making it obvious there are things worth nicking.
    --
    Saw a sign on a restaurant that said Breakfast, any time -- so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.
  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    CanalRider Cheers for the heads up... :wink: There is actually space in the 'shed' for the tyres so they will be in therer as of tonight. The main reason I haven't bothered to move them so far is that they are pretty hidden around a corner in my garden (very visible from mine and my neighbours houses)

    C'mon guys, we have only seen 4 so far! :D