Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
I don't know about SurlyLaika's specific situation, but for me, if i left a bike locked up somewhere out on the street in front of our condo building overnight, it'd be good as gone.
our condo building does have a bike room, but parking spaces cost $100/year, so only two of our bikes are down there (my hybrid and my GF's hybrid). my folder and my road bike live upstairs in the condo with us.
€5/mo is good insurance for a bike in the basement.
no sure how big your place is, but you may be paying more €5 in loss of living space ...
here, it's roughly €15/m2 warm rental space ... so if the bike is occupying more than 0.33m2 of space (more than 3.5 square feet of floorspace) ... i'd be losing money by keeping it upstairs.