Lucillle

I got my 2-bike rack delivered today and set it up.
It was supposed to go in the back room but I kept on thinking that the dogs might run back there and jump up and topple the rack. Maybe I'm just ****zing and being overprotective of both the dogs and the bikes.
I ended up putting the bike rack in my bedroom where the ironing board used to be. I live in a tiny house so there isn't much spare real estate for bike rack setup.

Where do you put your bikes?

lphilpot

In the storage shed behind my house. I suppose there is technically room in the house, but I don't need more stuff to fall over...

CACycling

Bikes go in the garage. My commuter bike sits in front of my van and the rest are hung over my wife's car (our road bikes are easy-access over the hood, the MTBs require moving the car). Plus my wife keeps a grocery-getter in her mom's garage (she spends 5+ hours a day at her mom's caring for her and likes to run errands on the bike to clear her mind).

tsl

< tsl trots out his living room pic again... >



Those are the Locking Bike Trac, $80 each from Saris. You need to order them from an LBS that has a direct account with Saris. They are not available through standard distribution (Read: QBP).

I use the standard, non-locking Bike Trac at work. It is available through QBP and so can be ordered by any LBS at $40 each.



Yes, this is just the reverse of the way most people do it. I lock the bikes at home in my living room, but it's not locked at work.

Lucillle

Tsl that is really neat and you have beautiful bikes.

tsl

Thanks. I'll tell them you said so.

scroca

basement and garage

Louis

I have a dry basement so all my bikes stay down there. That's where my bicycle specific workshop is as well.

Mr. Embrey

I try to keep at least one on the road as much as possible. The rest I keep in a spare storage closet.

xjken99

Right now they are in the finished basement, during the riding season they are in the garage where they are easy to get to. There is a separate room in the basement for the furnace and an old water bed frame. Eventually I am going to clear it out and put a small workbench in there and hang the bikes from the rafters.

Allegheny Jet

Most of them hang around in the garage and a couple play "bat" and hang upside down in a dark corner of the basement waiting for their turn to come out to play.

BluesDawg

Right now I have 5 in the spare bedroom/man cave. 2 (my deceased road bike and my son's road bike) on a lean-to rack that holds them horizontally, 2 (my sport touring/dirt road bike and my wife's hybrid) hanging vertically from brackets on the wall by their front wheels and the new road bike hanging by the saddle from the repair stand. Out in the shed are my MTB and an unfinished mixte Peugeot project standing on the floor, my son's MTB and the tandem hanging from hooks on the rafters by their front wheels. A couple of frames and several old wheels are there waiting to be used or sold.

Retro Grouch 

My condo's tuck under garage has a dividing wall in the front. The front portion is a bike shop/storage area. It's part of the reason we chose to buy this particular unit.

northbend 

My wife lets me keep the pretty bike in the house. The others have to sleep in the garage.

bobthib

The Alu and steel bikes live on a bike tree in the garage, except for my tandem and my son's MTB and roadie. The tandem won't fit on the tree, and the other get ridden pretty frequently.

Our carbon bikes live in the house (dining room) 99 44/100 % of the time. The garage is too hot in the summer for the carbon. I put them out there in the very rare occasions when we use the dining room.

one4one

My multi-speed go-fast bike is in my bedroom, my get-groceries beater commuter SS/FG C&V bike is sharing the other bedroom with my niece and when my name comes up on the wait-list for a free space in the building I can build the bike out of the parts stored in the living room.
There is another option: $137/month bicycle parking in the lot around the corner.

miss kenton

I used to keep my bike in my garage, but that bike was stolen. My new bike has her own room in the basement. (I'd send a photo, but a real lady is NEVER photographed in her boudoir.)

B. Carfree

There is an old addition on the back of my house that is divided into two small rooms. The larger of the two rooms has four bikes hanging from the ceiling near one wall and five attached to the facing wall. I have four more town bikes being stored inside unused motor vehicles and my tandem is 500 miles away visiting its daddy (it needed a new fork which entailed some head-tube modification by the frame builder/designer).
At some point during the next two years I will be tearing down the addition and building something else. I may have to build a storage shed first or it is going to get awfully crowded in the house while the construction happens.

Yen

Mine are in the house, Hubby's are in the garage. His bikes were in the house (except the recumbent) until he put them out there for Christmas.

SaiKaiTai

Our two-and-a-half bikes are hanging from the rafters in the garage.
They're real handy there -well, except for when my wife parks the car under one of them. then it's not handy at all but my main machine is always, always available and ready- but I have bonked my head on them, I don't know how many times.

NOS88

Three on the sun porch and four in the shed behind the house. I use the racks pictured below on the sun porch. (not my bikes, the photo is from Performance Bike's website).

Lucillle

My son is coming over today to help move around stuff in the back room so the bikes and dogs can coexist (the dogs sleep back there). NOS88, the rack you have pictured looks like the style I chose as well.

rdtompki

Garage. We don't keep cars in the garage so there is plenty of room. The tandem hangs from the ceiling between the two garage doors and the singles are on the outside wall.

DnvrFox

I have a 3 car garage, and 2 cars. One of the bays is filled with various and sundry bikes. My wife has two and one of them is on a trainer in the family room. Of the rest, one hangs from the wall, one from the ceiling, 5 on the floor, a trainer bike permanently ensconced in my man cave in the basement. I bought a bike rack a few months back but have yet to assemble it due to back surgery (couldn't lift it during recovery, and now wife is recovering and I am swamped). Once it warms up a bit and I have some time I will assemble the free-standing bike rack and see how it goes. I think I got this right.

Spec HR - wife (on trainer)
Trek 7400 - wife floor
3 wheeler (Andy's) - floor
Spec HR - old and stripped - hanging, ready for someone else to fix it up
Peugeot UO8 - wall
Windsor road bike - floor
Lemond BA - floor
Spec Rock Hopper - floor
Diamondback - trainer in basement

Phil_gretz

We have four family members. In our two-car garage, suspended from the rafters, we have four mountain bikes, my wife's touring bike, my touring bike, and my steel racing bike. Of the seven bikes hanging from the ceiling, four have pullies for ease of lifting. (Those are for the girls). My bikes hang from wheel hooks.

In the basement on a standing rack, we have my carbon bike. In the basement work room on a work stand, I have whatever bike is currently receiving medical care.

Phil G.