University Project

JackHuddleston6

Hi,

I am currently doing my final year university design project on bike storage.

Is space an issue when you store your bike? Does it get in the way? If this is something that you struggle with, please send an image or even a text description of your ways of storing. Please send to jack.huddleston911@gmail.com

Gathering real user insights is greatly beneficial for designing a well defined product so any responses will be greatly advantageous.


Thanks in advance.

secretsam

LOL you'll find that lots on here have >1 bike - I have, err, 5 (plus 3 others at home for wife and kids )

I'm lucky enough to have a garage but storage is a major issue - have a rack plus a bike hung on the wall, plus 2 bikes don't live in the garage (one in London, one on turbo in house)

Biggest challenge is keeping bikes accessible and usable but safely out of the way

Plus there's also all the other cr*p that comes with bikes - helmets, locks, car rack, luggage, etc. - you might want to take this into account.

HTH

laurentian

SecretSam wrote:

LOL you'll find that lots on here have >1 bike - I have, err, 5 (plus 3 others at home for wife and kids )

I'm lucky enough to have a garage but storage is a major issue - have a rack plus a bike hung on the wall, plus 2 bikes don't live in the garage (one in London, one on turbo in house)

Biggest challenge is keeping bikes accessible and usable but safely out of the way

Plus there's also all the other cr*p that comes with bikes - helmets, locks, car rack, luggage, etc. - you might want to take this into account.

HTH

Absolutely that - Bikes are one thing but incorporating somewhere for helmets, shoes, tools, spare tyres/tubes, lube, jerseys, bibs and so on would be a great addition to any "storage system"

cooldad

I have a shed. And another shed. And a conservatory.

davesnothere

I used to have a study, now i have a bike store/workshop/turbo room

Kids bikes live in the shed

lakesluddite

We have four in total - the two least valuable go outside in a locked bike shed (D-locked together), and the two most valuable go in our utility room side by side (also D-locked together just in case), where there is just about room for them and the washing machine, along with all cycling shoes, overshoes, helmets, old mudguards, tools, gloves etc. The only cycling things not in there are the clothes.
Will be looking for new house soon, so I'll need to find a similar set-up or consider downsizing the fleet (noooo!)

Frank Wilson

I actually find it amazing that someone goes to university to study cycle storage!

capt_slog

OP, do you still want pics if we don't struggle, space is not an issue, and it doesn't get in the way?

Just wondering

cooldad

DavesNotHere wrote:

I used to have a study, now i have a bike store/workshop/turbo room

Kids live in the shed

FTFY

FishFish

I keep my bikes in the garage which is an insurance requirement. Occasionally I keep them in a gravitational singularity like a black hole because they have loads of space - but it is a bit tricky retrieving them. Sometimes they will, if the universe is sufficiently curved, go through a wormhole and pop out in Uranus. That also poses a retrieval problem.

secretsam

FishFish wrote:

pop out in Uranus

I'd see a doctor about that

Anonymous

Which uni are you studying at and what is the name of your course ?