Mountain Biking - Bike Storeage and Care

Hi,
I have a few bikes and I live in Northern Maine. In winters the temperature averages below freezing and sometimes gets below zero. I have a shed that I keep my bicycles in. The temperature is the same as the outdoors. Is this bad for my bikes. How do you people store your bikes in the cold weather.
-thanks

My bikes all stay inside the house at all times. I have too much invested in them to leave them outside. I do wish I had a heated garage to store them in though.

Do you have any proof that the outside cold is bad for a bicycle???

Nope, but would you keep $20,000 in bikes outside?

During our brutally cold Winters my bikes stay in the garage and are kept warm by the waste heat from the water heater and refridgerator.

http://www.paradigmhosting.net//images/garage.jpg

(your bikes will be fine, just cold)

I dont keep 20,000$ in there worth of bikes but I've got about 2,800$ worth haha.

hey pete foogerdoodle..

i like ur porsche

can i drive it?

Holy crap! How clean / nice is that garage??

I had apartments in college that weren't as nice as this... :D

Holy crap! How clean / nice is that garage??

I had apartments in college that weren't as nice as this... :D


thats what i was thinkin .. show room status :(

Mine are in my bed with me under the covers.

hank what is they bike under the red one on the wall. that is a really nice garage.

i keep my bikes in the basement. but they go in the garage untill i clean them or my dad is working in there.(they get covered in saw dust)

well i live in the UK and at night it is very regulary below zero and i dont seem to have any problems! depends really if its hot in the day then theres a sudden drop in the heat (in the USA)

In winters the temperature averages below freezing and sometimes gets below zero.
you don't say?!

i see a red and a black bike, but no green one.

zx108- 5Spot

scr1be- it's in my office, locked into a trainer

During our brutally cold Winters my bikes stay in the garage and are kept warm by the waste heat from the water heater and refridgerator.

http://www.paradigmhosting.net//images/garage.jpg

(your bikes will be fine, just cold)


what kind of keg in the fridge?

what kind of keg in the fridge?

It varies but usually it's:


http://www.drinkdrakes.com/images/big_IPA.gif

It varies but usually it's:


http://www.drinkdrakes.com/images/big_IPA.gif

Hank, outstanding use of fridge. Every human should have a fridge in their garage devoted to beer.

Hank, outstanding use of fridge. Every human should have a fridge in their garage devoted to beer.
CAN I HEAR A +1?!?!

I haven't gotten that far yet in my alcoholism. I brew my own beer sometimes and would like to get a kegging system, but having that much beer at the flick of a tap would be dangerous.
:beer:

I haven't gotten that far yet in my alcoholism. I brew my own beer sometimes and would like to get a kegging system, but having that much beer at the flick of a tap would be dangerous.
:beer:

The wife won't give me the go-ahead to install a tap ("we may actually use that for something other than beer someday") but it's my 26 ft3 side-by-side 'beer fridge'. Nothing in it but beverages; three shelves of beer, and the drawers are full of juice boxes for the kids. I have the 4th shelf set with only about 4" of space - just enough for leftover pizza boxes. ;)

You don't need a tap to have free-flowing beverages - nothing like just having to walk over on a hot summer day and pop one to be a significant influence on heavy consumption. I'd say that going with bottles even results in quicker turnaround than a tap - especially with practice!
:beer:

Edit: oh, and to the OP - your bike will be fine outside, though I understand LowCel's desire to keep that investment, oops - collection, inside, esp in WV. While they're in a shed, try and keep them dry; water = bad.