Has anyone actually tried to sleep with their bike?

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited August 2009 in Commuting chat
Ok hear me out...

I don't mean the "ol'heave'ho" I just mean have you been in a situation where you have had to sleep next to your bike?

If so, do share?
Food Chain number = 4

A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game

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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Yes, numerous occasions. Touring :p

    Once with an arm looped through the wheel!
  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    :?
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,714
    Various times camping.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.
  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.

    !! :shock:
    He probably began by idly wondering if anyone had slept with his bike too. A warning for the curious.
    Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 3000
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    One of mine was on top of the wardrobe whilst the other was in the living room. On top of the wardrobe was the only suitable space to store a 2nd bike in my flat.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,953
    I've, on occasion, had 2 bikes in the bedroom at the same time. The Felt (Felicity) and Delta.

    Usually when people are staying over and said bicycles have to move out of one of the other bedrooms, or the diningroom, or the hall........ :D

    Well it's cold outside, they wouldn't like it in the garage (The bikes that is, but then I guess the guests wouldn't like it either)

    Dan
    Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I think there's pictorial evidence of LiT and the Maxima...
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    biondino wrote:
    I think there's pictorial evidence of LiT and the Maxima...

    A few unpublished pics from Wales after a night on the booze???
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Yes, did a 1,000 km/.600 mile ride across Pacific N.West, USA/Canada. in 1995.
    Had to put me, bike and all my kit into borrowed 2 man dome tent.

    Once the wheels are off, bike upside-down, and it was fine.
    Occasionally used motels. No joking, felt scarier, some like the Bates Motel in "Psycho!"

    Worst night- Radium Hot Springs, BC. Campsite backs onto main USA/Canada rail line.
    Their trains have over 100 trucks behind! Not good all night long. Needed my beauty sleep.

    Best morning - Radium Hot Springs, wild birds/rodents coming to feed out of your hand.

    Best evening - Radium Hot Springs, swimming in hot-thermal swimming pool, open-air,
    watching the stars, mountains silhouetted by the moon, and "FIT" German girl in pink and when wet, see-through swim suit.
    Also met Otto, German site handy-man/Cowboy. Just like the one out of Malcom in the Middle.
  • nielsamd
    nielsamd Posts: 174
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5RS-ZCTWw&feature=related

    at 0:08

    (not my video!)
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    biondino wrote:
    I think there's pictorial evidence of LiT and the Maxima...

    I shall rush quickly to check her facebook...
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    many times....in the back of a van.....with two other blokes and their bikes.....
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    During the entire of my Spainish tour, each night it was right next to my hammock, in hands reach near enough most nights.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • DevUK
    DevUK Posts: 299
    I technically sleep with both my bikes most nights, as they live in my bedroom :)
    FCN Daily commute = 11
    FCN Fixie commute = 5
  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    3 months working in Italy, cycle commuted and we shared a hotel room.
    Neil
    Help I'm Being Oppressed
  • iclestu
    iclestu Posts: 503
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.

    One can't help wondering how people stumble across such links.....

    ;)
    FCN 7: Dawes Galaxy Ultra 2012 - sofa-like comfort to eat up the miles

    Reserve: 2010 Boardman CX Pro
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    I sometimes have a kip in the park with my arm defensivley round my beast (if it's sunny).
    Photos - Blog - Bike
  • pastryboy
    pastryboy Posts: 1,385
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.


    I'm lost as to how that's a crime - unless he did something deliberately to those cleaners it's his private room and they just caught him enjoying himself. If he had music on, didn't hear them and was just having a quick one under the duvet surely that's not a criminal offence :shock:
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    pastryboy wrote:
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.


    I'm lost as to how that's a crime - unless he did something deliberately to those cleaners it's his private room and they just caught him enjoying himself. If he had music on, didn't hear them and was just having a quick one under the duvet surely that's not a criminal offence :shock:

    He wasn't under the duvet, the bike wouldn't fit.... only problem might have been is if the bike was fairly newish, I mean maybe it wasn't 16 years old, and he had the saddle off, maybe greasing the chain, or worse still, giving the rear derillier a seeing to.....

    The mind really boggles.

    But seriously, he was locked in his own room when the cleaners entered, so what is the problem?
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    I keep trying... but Carly always has a headache :(
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • doog442
    doog442 Posts: 370
    just love the way the OP has to check with the rest of the cycling world....everything that befalls (or could possibly befall) his life with a bike

    someone tell him you cant shag a bike :shock:
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.

    At least you'd think he'd pick a pretty one :shock:
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    iclestu wrote:
    ChrisInBicester wrote:
    Me. I was in the news too.

    Report.

    CinB, I mean Bob.

    One can't help wondering how people stumble across such links.....

    ;)

    Was a big news item at the time. Some things just stick in your mind, for some inexplicable reason. Google does the rest...

    :)
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Holkham Beach in Norfolk - I used to ride my motorbike up there from Cambridge on summer weekends and sleep next to my motorbike......does that count?

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