Do you keep your bike/s indoors?

grahamcp

I'm looking to move home (renting) in the near future - currently sharing a large house with garden - so bike storage and cleaning/maintenance are no problem. As I'll be moving in on my own, I don't need such a big place, but will need somewhere to keep the bike family. If I had a place with a garage, I'd be ok leaving 2 of my 4 bikes in there, but my best 2 I'd prefer to keep indoors.

So I was just wondering how you manage - in particular if you live in a flat. I guess there must be a fair few people living in flats with expensive bikes but no secure storage or garden area - how do you cope with things like access, storage and cleaning?

lae

My bike is in my bedroom. I clean it in the bath.

Seriously.

Massimo

My two best bikes hang on my bedroon wall. My commuter is just inside the front door. My wife's bike (that only gets used in the summer) is in the loft with my other two bikes that I don't use any more but I can't bear to part with them.

Harry182

Mrs H + I have five bikes in the living room of our small London flat. Two of them are on one of these:




PS - That's not my flat or Storck. (I wish.)

Wappygixer

My winter/commuter bike stays in the conservatory and my best bike lives on the wardrobe in a bike bag.
It was easy to get around the missus with "well it was expensive".

redddraggon

rogerthecat

Just don’t! I live in a "CELL"



The movement of bikes occurs more often than my bowels,

rogerthecat

oh and by the way that is a Storck on the bed

Ands

rogerthecat wrote:

oh and by the way that is a Storck on the bed

OMG, I will never, ever, complain about my husband's bike in the living room again!! Don't you worry about oil on the white duvet??

p.s. your pot plant needs some attention.

rogerthecat

Pot plant was a rescue, it is doing well now; it was just over watered by previous owner. Oil on bed not a chance, she is cleaned after every outing.

desmosedici

All my bikes live indoors. Benefit of being divorced I guess.

davidcambridge1

I have one bike in my bedroom, two in the conservatory, and my winter bike outside under a covered patio. I love having my bikes indoors, it means that I can stare at them / stroke them all day long!!

Offshorenath

They used to live indoors and the gf would occasionally have a grumble about them. However since being married they have been relegated to the garage ! I regularly get up in the middle of the night just to check they're safe. I'm not joking either

ride_whenever

house of 4, 9 bikes in the garage, one on turbo indoors, one hanging from the picture rail in my room. More bikes will be going into the garage though.

Ands

I realised last night that I currently have more bikes indoors than Mr Ands :oops:

SCR Pedro

I keep mine in my bedroom, behind the door. I have a shed, but I can't see it from the flat. Even though it's relatively secure, I prefer to keep an eye on it.

Pedro

shane515

Last summer I laid a concrete pad and built a metal shed on said pad for my bike......my bike is still in the living room

Anonymous

Mine are all in the garage.

lfcquin

7 in the garage and 2 in the house. Its irresponsible to have them all in the same place! It tends to be a fluid situation. Track & Best Bike live in the house, but often the current ride is in the hallway - I've been caught out the last couple of weeks and my winter bike has dripped gunk on the cream carpet. Wife has been remarkably chilled about it, probably because she is after a new carpet. :roll:

dboden

3 bikes in the garage, but I can get to the garage through internal door, so it feels like they are in the house. :-)

iain_j

rogerthecat - you must put a lot of time into cleaning those bikes, mine are in the hall and, well, the dark blue carpet is a write-off

Ands

I over-oiled my chain last week and have had the bike on the turbo indoors. Now have oil all over the turbo, the floor and sprayed against the wall. I got into a lot of trouble (I suspect due to wasting Mr Ands' oil, not because of the mess in the dining room!)

cheesebeanie

2 in the shed (Felt & Scott mtb's, one hard tail, one full suss)
1 in the house - Scott CR1 (aka my baby)

The other night Mrs CB was all aglow when i told her that she looked spectacular... then she turned around and realised that i was talking to my bike.. seriously... true story.... soooo much trouble.... :?

Wamas

All in the garage.

mcj78

Got me road bike in the living room (hiding behind my old highback chesterfield chair - you can hardly see it, honest) and 2 mountain bikes in the big hall cupboard, i'm in an old tenement flat so the cupboard's pretty big - i'm gonna put a rail across it & hang a couple from that so they all fit in there - if anyone's done anything similar i'd be interested to hear how, it's out of sight so can be as ugly as sin for all I care!

londonbairn

3 racing bikes in my bedroom (ROI Dura Ace, Bianchi 928 C2C & Wilier La Triestina 2010, which is used for commuting) and 5 in the garage (which are of "lesser" quality)

bompington

In summer, my kids keep theirs at any convenient dropping point within 200m of the house.

Seriously, if you have a garage is there any reason (other than ones that raise disturbing questions) why you would keep a bike in the house?

freehub

redddraggon

bompington wrote:

Seriously, if you have a garage is there any reason (other than ones that raise disturbing questions) why you would keep a bike in the house?

Garages are for cars.

bompington

redddraggon wrote:

bompington wrote:

Seriously, if you have a garage is there any reason (other than ones that raise disturbing questions) why you would keep a bike in the house?

Garages are for cars.

Ha, ha, ha you must be joking! My garage contains 4 bikes (2 have been nicked, not from the garage), a lawnmower, workbench, sink, 96ft of shelving, 674 pairs of shoes & boots (approx), a barbecue & patio table, and a 10X5ft dog run. But it's never seen a car, it's a complete waste to keep cars in a garage.

freehub

He's right, garages are mainly for cars.