nocondorfx

Im coming home from school and parents say the bike has to go outside. We have rubber hooks to hang it upside down by the wheels, not visible from the street. Just seeing how you guys store your babies.

GuitarWizard

Hell would freeze over the day my bikes get stored outside. Hell, even my motorcycle goes in the house in the wintertime.

Get parents with a clue. Better yet, show them this thread. When not ridden, a bike does not deserve to be left outside. It goes in either:

A) your room
B) the loft outside your bedroom (if you happen to have one)
C) the dining room (along with the rest of your cycling stuff in preparation for the next ride)
D) a finished basement or spare room.

Under no circumstances are they to be left outside or, worse, in a garage. At that point, you might as well just put a sign that says "free" on your bike and put it out by the curb to save the breaking and entering part.

rpc180

Right as you come inside! Bikes make great conversation peices too. I don't own either of these two anymore though.

worker4youth

nice place rpc180!

toshi

rpc, that looks like one of those DaVinci racks... how do you like it? Is it still stable if the top bike is left on the rack, but the bottom bike is removed?

Jakey

Hyperbaric chamber.

nocondorfx

yea, the more i think about it, i think im gonna say. sorry, it IS going inside. It is the most money I have ever spent on something, and i dont think i want it to grow legs.

55/Rad

Mine live with the maid. They used to live with the butler and before that the landscaper, but they complained too much and I don't want to lose them. The nanny gets the bikes next.



55/Rad

Odin

MTB in the entrance hall and road bike in the living room.
I used to keep my two race motorcycles and one road motorcycle in the living room - on polished timber floors!!

Tequila Joe

I store them in my little basement bike shop. Its warm, dry and most of all, safe.
All my tools and supplies are ready and available.

MrCjolsen

The garage is fine, as long as it's locked and secure. Bikes in backyards here tend to get stolen. Especially during the summer when parents think that our "small town" is so safe and quaint that they can leave their middle school delinquents home unsupervised all day.

the beef

Right in the hallway. I'd never leave my bike outside.

urbanknight

Mine hangs upside down in my parents' locked garage, with the chain on the little ring and the small cog (no tension on the cables). My fiancee isn't too happy that if we end up in an apartment after the wedding, the bike's going on one of those wall racks like pictured above. She's an interior designer, she'll have to integrate that into her design.

mrkott3r

mine lives in the shed. gotta love those double door sheds. On the other side is the MG. Damn I love living in Australia when living in the city still allows you a huge arse shed

UmneyDurak

Store bike outside? No elfing way. Mine are in a living room.

jciv03

I live in an apartment (college student) and my bike sleeps in my room! I only leave my $70 Target Bike (probably worth $20 now) outside.

rpc180

It is a DaVinci rack - very stable, since it leans slightly against the wall and the top bike is only around 20lbs or so. My ~20lbs bike sits on the top all day while I take the commuter to work. I wouldn't be worried about it falling over unless there was an earthquake or something.

Thanks! HGTV has too many design shows on all night

ElJamoquio

Bike... OUTSIDE??? You sound like my girlfriend. Right now mine's in the living room.

Second Mouse

Well, Scooter, the LeMond, gets his own room, as does Rollie, the Raleigh. But Buffy and Stinky, the Giant and the Gary Fisher, have to share a room.

The garage. Some are hanging by their front wheels on hooks in the ceiling, some are just leaning against the wall.

engo

Never never never outside alone.

Ottawa is rife with bike theft, so mine get a place of honour in the living room.

bccycleguy

Finest piece of industrial art in our living room!

jjmolyet

I would never leave my bike outside, in fact I have dedicated a room in my basement to my bikes! I read bike books down there, care for bikes down there, listen to Fredcast, and ride my trainer, love your bike and she will love you back.

R900

We have a Ultimate Rack and store our road bikes in the Dining Room (I know, not the best but very handy). The tandems and mountain bikes hang from hooks in the garage.

John

Spacey

Mine is in my dining room. Of course I am single and haven't eaten at my dining room table in a couple of years. My table is usually covered in equipment/parts too. Every so often it gets cleared off so I can play dominos with my friends.

rjg001

My bike resides in the living room as well. Eventually I think I'm going to have to find a way to hang it just inside the basement door because my wife would prefer that it be somewhere less conspicuous. Either that or my wife is going to have to go.