I put this in C&V because they generally have it the worst, er,....they have more bikes, We often see pics of great cool neat-o keen bikes, but where do they live? I know many are in the kitchen, the bedroom, under the porch, the garage, the basement. Where do you put your bikes? And does it bother anyone like your signif other?

I'll start off. My only part of the cave is the garage, and the bikes live there. I keep my only classic bike (Cinelli Equipe) on the wall very high so I have to be serious about riding it or tweaking it. My SS is my most accessible, my Ironman 1 sits vertical, Nishiki on the trainer, wife's Raleigh where I can get to it, and my current build, Ironman 2, is on the rack.

The two kids bikes you see are the latest bikes I've collected to Pay if Forward and give away in memory of Sheldon Brown, number 3 and 4. I take in two at a time, give them away as soon as they're ready, then get more. I have to admit, I'm having a real problem getting truly cheap brakes to adjust right. My goal in '08 is to give away 16. 16 more kids riding. Thanks, Sheldon.

I have a Performance rack that three of the four bikes stay on, the fourth is on the ground behind the rack. A few spare wheels and rims are also sacked next to the rack.

I keep them in my garage bay that is converted to a bike shop:

I've got seven bikes on the front (enclosed) porch--four of mine, my wife's mixte commuter, and my two kids' bikes, one in the dining room (all-chrome Raleigh Sports), one in the backyard under a tarp (Bridgestone CB-1 winter beater/grocery getter), and everything else in the basement, mostly hanging from hooks from ceiling joists with a few others crammed in a back room where I also keep most of my wheels. I don't have a garage (which is probably a good thing to keep the herd down).

Neal

I keep one in the living room, a Dean El Diente. The one in the dining room is a 1990 c-dale st400 and the one in between is a Specialized Sirrius. Two of the three in the garage are 1970's Favorit's and the other is a recumbent. The cat has yet to voice an opinion as to this arrangement.

Right now, my Cannondale is in the dining area, my Triumph is in the bedroom on the work stand, my Bianchi is in the hallway, and my Kona is in my storage locker in the basement. (Keep in mind that I live in a one bedroom apartment!) I have two other frames that are currently in a friend's basement with primer drying on them. The most I have kept in here at once was 5 bikes...

I'm moving to a different apartment in a week, though, and I won't have a storage space in the basement anymore. It is also a small one bedroom, so I'm probably going to invest in some kind of vertical rack like what cuda2k mentioned.

We are not worthy.......what NASCAR team to you work for? Great shot. I'll be looking at this for a while...."See, honey, it's not an addiction!"

The best pics are of the bikes in living rooms; I saw a pic once with doilies under the tires.

I keep about 10 in the main room of the basement, which used to be a bar or rec room area before I bought.

I plan on making a former work shop down there into a bike room/workshop. I have My LeTour IV in there now on the work stand as I am in the process of overhauling it./

I also have 4 bikes in my detached garage (my latest finds besides the LeTour IV) that haven't made it to the basement yet.

I also have the frames for my two mddleweights, and some of my parts still in the attached 1 car garaqe, also to be relocated to the basement.

I usually have at least one bike in either the kitchen or living room, 4-5 in the "back room", and the others plus parts in my basement (as seen in the vintage shop thread). Oh yeah, one in the backyard.

I see you have the PG version of the GI with coffee.

Yeah, I used to work on cars and motorcycles in my mis-spent youth, and a lot of the tools cross over in use. I still wrnech on my 1200 Suzuki Bandit. Anything with 2 wheels rocks. Obviously in this pic the stable was all out playing.

I've got my two main bikes in the living room, along with the kid's Battaglin and the wife's Trek (hen she's not riding it outside, she has it on a trainer in front of the tv). Another hangs on the wall in my home office, and the rest of my "keepers" are hanging from the garage rafters on hooks.

The flipping herd is here and there - wherever I have space.

It is a family forum, after all.

[QUOTE=bigbossman;6391888]I've got my two main bikes in the living room, along with the kid's Battaglin and the wife's Trek (hen she's not riding it outside, she has it on a trainer in front of the tv). Another hangs on the wall in my home office, and the rest of my "keepers" are hanging from the garage rafters on hooks.

The flipping herd is here and there - wherever I have space.

A note on your rack...I used to have one just like it in my apt in Washington DC...they wouldn't let me drill into the ceiling and bolt it to an overhead stud, winter hit, the heat came on, the ceiling must have expanded just a tad, and I came back from a run to find 4 bikes in a dented, beat up, scratched pile of metal.

Be very afraid...or bolt through the top plate into the ceiling.

My Treks live in the garage, right beside the cars (how's that for equality) and the loaner bike lives in the John Deere room (our house has a walk-out basement, and there's a single garage door back there that opens to my shop and some storage space) along with my stepdad's crap-tastic Huffy.

Who manufactures this and are you happy with it? I gather you can hang two on each side (4 total)? I've got a bunch of bikes I'd like to hang inside, but I have no wall space. I'd try ceiling hooks, but my ceilings are too low for it to be practical.

Score 1 for bigbossman with the wine and martini glasses in the background. Whoa yeah.

heh - an earthquake will probably take it down before expansion does. Besides, that would be a good excuse to buy and build new bikes!!

Good tip - thanks!!

Hey - we're not savages. My 12 year old daughter makes a mean Belvedere martini.

I got it off of CL, but either Performance or Nashbar makes the current incarnation. Yes, you can hang 4 bikes on it.

I've got a rack like that I can't use (My garage ceiling is 14') I'll send a pic and maybe we can trade something. Mine is equipped for two, and you can get more hooks for the other side.....

For now my bikes are living in my garage and down at the bike shop... I think I have 6 there and 9 here.

I have two bikes currently in the garage. The other 10 are spread around the basement bike shop sitting on the floor, hung by a tire, or on a 4 bike rack.

I'm trying to remember where all of mine are...there are some in the actual garage. Then there are some in a small room off the garage...a select few are downstairs in the library (which is where I do a lot of my wrenching), and one special bike is upstairs in a spare bedroom .

I'll have to get photos later--too dark for that now!

East Hill

EH...Are you keeping Mr Sachs hostage in the spare bedroom and if so...does Mr Hill know about this?

All of mine stay in my bed room.