Bike Storage?
10-16-07, 11:18 PM
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Bike Storage?
Winter's fast approaching and I've finally made a big change at
my house that's been long over due. I've cleaned out the garage
in order to put our Conversion Van inside for the bad weather.
Not just cleaned out the garage...CLEANED OUT. I know it's a little
sacriligious but I threw out two barrels of old bike parts that I'ld
been stumbling over for years, and a bunch of car stuff.
Here's a pic of Cranky's Garage last week...
and our bike storage shed attached to the back of the garage...
Now here's a pic from this afternoon after a little carpentry....
With the Van...
what's left of the storage shed...
Bike overflow into the other half of the garage....
and more overflow into the basement...
sighhhh....so many treasures, so little space!
my house that's been long over due. I've cleaned out the garage
in order to put our Conversion Van inside for the bad weather.
Not just cleaned out the garage...CLEANED OUT. I know it's a little
sacriligious but I threw out two barrels of old bike parts that I'ld
been stumbling over for years, and a bunch of car stuff.
Here's a pic of Cranky's Garage last week...
and our bike storage shed attached to the back of the garage...
Now here's a pic from this afternoon after a little carpentry....
With the Van...
what's left of the storage shed...
Bike overflow into the other half of the garage....
and more overflow into the basement...
sighhhh....so many treasures, so little space!
Last edited by cranky old dude; 10-16-07 at 11:58 PM.
10-17-07, 05:21 AM
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Obviously, you subscribe to the N + 1 bike theory. And now that you've cleared out some old parts, you do realize that some use will pop up for them in the near future!
10-17-07, 05:27 AM
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Poor little MGB. It looks like it wants to play.
10-17-07, 05:33 AM
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Love what you've done!
10-17-07, 05:37 AM
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Would you like to do my garage next
How many bikes do you have in there?
How many bikes do you have in there?
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10-17-07, 06:24 AM
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I'm not ashamed to admit having a similar bike count and dilema. I have 11 bikes hanging in the garage, 4 in a backyard shed, and frames and wheels and piece-parts for maybe 5 more in the basement. We have the same disease (but I'm liking the symptoms).
I'd like to get rid of some and occasionally give one away to a deserving soul, but it's the strangest thing... Example: I have a perfectly clean and restored 80's Panasonic DX2000 10 speed that's not particularly worth much. I'll never ride it more than around the block once or twice. And yet I can't even think of parting with it.
I'd like to get rid of some and occasionally give one away to a deserving soul, but it's the strangest thing... Example: I have a perfectly clean and restored 80's Panasonic DX2000 10 speed that's not particularly worth much. I'll never ride it more than around the block once or twice. And yet I can't even think of parting with it.
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10-17-07, 08:00 AM
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Dang! We gotta hook up! That's a SWEET! MG in there too! Chrome Bumper model too which makes it pre-1973 which is before they raised the suspension up.
Nice Job on the garage. I know it's tough to do. I've always tried to keep my two car garage just that...Two cars. Our winters play enough havoc on the cars.
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Nice Job on the garage. I know it's tough to do. I've always tried to keep my two car garage just that...Two cars. Our winters play enough havoc on the cars.
Chris
10-19-07, 06:47 PM
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some Alenax's, an old 3-spd, an old 2-spd. I guess I'm as much a collector as rider.
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a Schwinn traveler (2-spd) Schwinn Collegiate and a Performance (?) 10 spd.
On the wall 2 Schwinn racing bikes (not when I ride them), and a Raleigh Marathon.
Other wall a Burley Tandem
In back a Huffy tandem, Raleigh C-40 and JC Penny 3 spd
With the "B" a Schwinn Tandem (5 spd), Schwinn Town & Country and a
Sun EZ Racer.
You can count the ones in the basement...they belong to my daughters and wife.
20 bikes in the Garage and I think 5 in the basement.
edit: oops, forgot about the '63 Schwinn Starlett III and Trek 820.
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10-19-07, 06:57 PM
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Dang! We gotta hook up! That's a SWEET! MG in there too! Chrome Bumper model too which makes it pre-1973 which is before they raised the suspension up.
Nice Job on the garage. I know it's tough to do. I've always tried to keep my two car garage just that...Two cars. Our winters play enough havoc on the cars.
Chris
Nice Job on the garage. I know it's tough to do. I've always tried to keep my two car garage just that...Two cars. Our winters play enough havoc on the cars.
Chris
in May and the '59 "A" Coupe about 10 years ago.
10-20-07, 05:38 AM
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Step 1. We admitted that we were powerless over bicycling stuff and that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
There's 10 more steps.
Step 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
There's 10 more steps.
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He's got a Camino Gold MGB. Obviously a man of class 
Richard
don't let those bikes scratch her.
Richard
don't let those bikes scratch her.
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When I added a new garage to my house in preparation for converting the old garage into my wife's art and ballet studio, I had to settle for a code-minimum two-car unit, because of setback laws. A few extra feet in either direction would have been very nice.
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