fixing your bike in the house ?

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  • friso
    friso Posts: 107
    The question should be:

    Shall i allow my misses to prepare food for my children and i and to perform general laundry duties in my bike workshop, or as she likes to call it a 'Kitchen'
  • Uncle Peter
    Uncle Peter Posts: 324
    We need a new living room carpet because of my maintenance/cleaning program.
  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    i fix my bike in the kitchen or living room

    i even washed it in the bath using the shower once when it was snowing outside

    :D
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  • covelove
    covelove Posts: 209
    Oh its tempting, just got back upstairs from my cold non electric garage where i just fitted new grips. had to use my van lights pointing in to give me light! BRRRRRR!
    does my tail look hard in this?

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  • jonnyc2420
    jonnyc2420 Posts: 557
    it has been known for my wife to find the odd bit of anodised bike bling in the dishwasher............. :shock:

    now i just do it when she goes out...... :twisted:
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  • colintrav
    colintrav Posts: 1,074
    bamba wrote:
    my gears need a spot of looking at, hoping to do it tomorrrow night in the warmth of the kitchen :lol: if the misses allows it ,
    does any one else get away with such things ? or will i be expecting too much ?

    I get the impression that your other half doesn't like it period so asking this is like looking for support from fellow compadre's who are in a similar situation


    Thankfully myself I don't need to put up with such pointless nagging ... whinging
  • colintrav
    colintrav Posts: 1,074
    friso wrote:
    The question should be:

    Shall i allow my misses to prepare food for my children and i and to perform general laundry duties in my bike workshop, or as she likes to call it a 'Kitchen'


    Most women know how to use a microwave , corkscrew /bottle opener more than a stove top ...



    FACT ........
  • Wildboar
    Wildboar Posts: 33
    :D I've even had My motorbike in the kitchen to strip the head, The beauty of working shifts and the wife being at work of course. My new GT is still in the bedroom until it finally gets dirty. I did suggest some wall brackets for the bedroom wall for it but she didn't seem to like that idea much......
  • mikeage
    mikeage Posts: 150
    I've quite often carried small boxes upstairs to my loft conversion flat and then a few weeks later, when all the parts have been sourced, wheel a complete bike down 2 sets of stairs!
  • forcutty
    forcutty Posts: 1,055
    bamba wrote:
    Hurahh :!: :!: :D:D , she said yes
    What were the terms then? :wink:
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Well, I just finished putting together an entire bike in the kitchen. Complete with full tool set, 2 workstands, donor bike and all the new bits.
    I've also managed to put a nice big scratch in the kitchen table that I'll probably blame on one of the kids at some point :twisted:
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    mikeage wrote:
    I've quite often carried small boxes upstairs to my loft conversion flat and then a few weeks later, when all the parts have been sourced, wheel a complete bike down 2 sets of stairs!

    I did that at uni, boy did housekeeping have a fit when they saw me leaving...
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  • bamba
    bamba Posts: 856
    there was no terms :lol:
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    bamba wrote:
    there was no terms :lol:

    hah! that you know of.....

    just you wait until the terms are revealed!

    :D
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  • miss notax
    miss notax Posts: 2,572
    Ha ha ha, this is funny! I don't like bikes being in the house - at a push they can be worked on in the porch, but otherwise it's the garage. And that goes for my bike too :lol:

    Obviously I fully accept that when i'm out for the night they are probably being lovingly cleaned in the middle of the lounge..... :shock:
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  • Vegman
    Vegman Posts: 35
    miss notax wrote:
    Ha ha ha, this is funny! I don't like bikes being in the house - at a push they can be worked on in the porch, but otherwise it's the garage. And that goes for my bike too :lol

    Have a heart Miss Notax, even the most hardened of bike fettling fairys get a little chilly out in the garage in these temperatures, let him in to the the kitchen and make him a nice brew.. who knows that 'mystery brake drag' may even dissappear. :wink:
    A bike..in my garage.....I MUST tinker.
  • Steve_b77
    Steve_b77 Posts: 1,680
    I've built two bikes from scratch (obviously not the frames) in our kitchen in this house.

    In the last house I rebuilt an engine and port matched a cylinder head on the kitchen table :lol:

    Couldn't get away with the gear box though as it was a bit awkward to fit on the table :roll:

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