How to know you're in a MTBers house

RealMan

spongtastic wrote:

and an old WTB saddle under the sink.

My favourite so far.

scale20

Between me and the Mrs the hose is a tip, looks like someone has thrown a grenade into a bikeshop

Outside the bikestand is there with hose draped over it. The white front door is covered in black knobbly tyre marks from wheeling the bikes into the house.

5 bikes in the livingroom
Garmin by the PC
Stack of MB mags on the windowsill
Helmets in random places
Toolbox covered in various free stickers in the kitchen
Track pump in the corner of the livingroom
Until today, mud on the laminate floor :oops:

And the fact that the kitchen and bathroom aint finished because I would rather go out riding than cut and grout tiles, the gardens looking pretty neglected too.

bike-a-swan

scale20 wrote:

5 bikes in the livingroom
Garmin by the PC
Stack of MB mags on the windowsill
Helmets in random places
Toolbox covered in various free stickers in the kitchen
Track pump in the corner of the livingroom
Until today, mud on the laminate floor :oops:

I read that as 'pump track' and was briefly quite jealous

phz

in a household of two cyclists we seem quite lowkey having read all this -

pile of MBUK / dirts in the lounge
a few cycling DVDs lurking amongst all the feature films
5-10 freeriders and a camelbak under the stairs
last delivery of parts (not yet fitted) sat on the dining room table
conservatory full of tools and old bike parts
cycling clothes drying on the airer in the spare room near the helmets and 661 race lites

everything else is in the garage or shed

slainte rob

RealMan

pHz wrote:

5-10 freeriders and a camelbak under the stairs

Got a little confused there, thought you were saying you had around five to ten gnarly mountain bikers under the stairs.

Anonymous

Crappy car out the front, bikes worth more than the sum of every car I've ever owned in the garage.

Vans, lots of Vans.

Camelback in the kitchen and the bedroom

MucOff under the sink (cleans a few kitchen surfaces really well too!)

Wiggle, Fox, marzocchi and Shimano boxes everywhere

Old chain in the drawer under the microwave!?!

MBUK in pretty much every room in the house

Riding gloves on the kitchen table

Riding glases on the kitchen sideboard thing

Milton in the kitchen, with no baby bottles to be found

Even bigger pile of nasty, filthy Vans in the garage and porch.

Entire floorspace of garage filled with over 15 year's worth of "it might come in useful some day" bike parts.

bomberesque

yeehaamcgee

fek me, you've been back 10 days and I'd not even noticed :shock: . Clearly I've not been whoring BR hard enough (work ... the bastards) ..... welcome back!

as for the OP;

.... nowt more than bikes. Had an erstwhile friend round once who, after "taking the tour", (ie; going to the loo) turned to me and said very quetly "there's bikes EVERYWHERE". Soon after that Mrs B started making me move the less regularly used ones into the basement ... now we're even; 3 each in the flat

miss notax

RealMan wrote:

pHz wrote:

5-10 freeriders and a camelbak under the stairs

Got a little confused there, thought you were saying you had around five to ten gnarly mountain bikers under the stairs.

Me too - I'm sure there are rules against that....

Anonymous

bomberesque wrote:

yeehaamcgee

fek me, you've been back 10 days and I'd not even noticed :shock: .

Hmm, maybe I need to start another massive argument about singlespeed rigids

Steve_F

3 bikes in the alcove as soon as you walk in the front door and a shelf full of biking gear should just about do it.

mrfmilo

Maybe not if you walked into my house, but you'd probably guess in my room

Several posters/stickers/cutouts on the walls
Big pile of MBUK
Several MTB books
Wheels/fork/bars etc. sitting around
MTB clothing lying around + gloves etc.
Full face helmet + armour
Draw thing full of CRC and bike company jiffy bags

aswell as my garage which is also full of bike parts, work bench, tools etc. :P

JamesBrckmn

my bedroom floor:
spesh catologue
mbuk's
2l water bladder
wellgo b54 box
fsa gravity lite box
661 elbow pads
shock pump instuctions
riding clothes
and a distinct whiff of BO and oil, mixed with citrus degreaser!

and my friend has a back garden pump track, it's awesome: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/4897099/
i built the pump on the left

DTW

I'm going to be really boring here, sorry.......

All my gear and bikes reside in my garage and all my tools are in a mechanic style tool cabinet. My cleaning agents are lined along a shelf and below them are all my lubes and oils. I have a dedicated bench with plastic containers and holders for all the fiddly bits and spares.

In my bedroom I have a large sliding wardrobe where I keep my full-face helmet, XC helmet and pisspot style lid on a shelf at the top along with my Camelback (well, before I mistakenly threw my Camelback away).

Under the stairs I have my biking trainers and my Shimano SPD's.

My Avid bleed kit did sit in the lounge for a few weeks and I have about 30 copies of MBUK beside my bed.....ROCK AND ROLL

RealMan

DTW wrote:

well, before I mistakenly threw my Camelback away

How did you do that lol?

ride_whenever

currently my room has three scott promotional banners, a lefty front wheel which doubles as a tie rack, many many many inner tubes and tyres a camelback stuffed ready to go at a moments notice with a spare empty bladde, two helmets and the inbred WIP hang from the picture rails on a 4m by 5m room with patio doors.

Visible bike stuff not hanging on the walls neatly

3 ridable bikes, a clean and a dirty mound of riding gear, several cans of gt85, and various fabric reproofers, a greasegun, umpteen lights, bottle cages, rolled up tyres, a double bed half full of tools, big syringes for bleeding, locks, socket set, driver bit set, a whole shelving unit of parts and bits in boxes, three sets of bars and stems, track pump, huge piles of mags under the bed, two heartrate monitors, digital tyre pressure gauge.


That's what i can see from the desk...

sascos

You know you`re in a MTB`ers house when you need to go to the toilet...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44034391@N08/4551112317/

ride_whenever

^that is sweet, it's like a dog waiting for it's owner to take it out to play!

ilovedirt

Most of the stuff is in my bedroom but:

oily rags in the conservatory
usually a CRC jiffy bag or similar waiting for me next to the door
mud all over the floors

fast forward to my bedroom:
bike rucksack on the floor
MBUK on my bed
bike posters on my walls
lots of tools scattered about the place
the occasonal bike part lying around
draw full of bike parts and tools
various empty CRC jiffy bags/boxes etc

My bedroom is basically a cross between a band practice room, a recording studio and a bike workshop with a bed thrown in there!

ctrlaltdel

couple of bikes in the utility room,
several more in the garage (although i'm unsure as to the exact number as they're mostly in pieces)
Wheelset in the bedroom
old innertubes lying around the back garden (can never find a new innertube though )
a stack of mbr magazines in the cupboard dating back to 1999 :shock:

CitizenLee

This thread is 8 years old... are you a time traveler or necromancer?