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elcraft 11-11-10 12:22 AM


Originally Posted by Thumpic (Post 11767721)
Pandora; Prairie Home Companion or instant Netflix............

or maybe this...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU

Hey, is that Sixtyfiver?!!

elcraft 11-11-10 12:24 AM


Originally Posted by Thumpic (Post 11767536)
just me and 2 cats...........

Nice Gran Sport with a FORGED dropout!!

Sixty Fiver 11-11-10 12:49 AM


Originally Posted by elcraft (Post 11769677)
Hey, is that Sixtyfiver?!!

So much for my secret identity...

rat fink 11-11-10 01:41 AM

In my living room. Flip bikes stay in the garage.

Sixty Fiver 11-11-10 01:49 AM

I sometimes lace wheels in my living room where I can drink tea and spend time with my daughters (my shop is at home)... my truing stand is in the shop so the finishing work gets done there and I prefer to do this where I have silence.

Pelotoner 11-11-10 01:49 AM

In my basement or at my LBS.

Bianchigirll 11-11-10 07:45 AM


Originally Posted by tugrul (Post 11769643)
Oh neat. I contemplated building a hanging rack like this, but went for a less ambition solution for now.

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...3&d=1289441891

I'm assuming that is free standing?

yes it is freestanding

nlerner 11-11-10 07:49 AM


Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver (Post 11769779)
I sometimes lace wheels in my living room where I can drink tea and spend time with my daughters (my shop is at home)... my truing stand is in the shop so the finishing work gets done there and I prefer to do this where I have silence.

I lace wheels at the kitchen table. Good lighting, good work surface, family nearby. Then it's down to the basement/dungeon for truing.

Neal

cycleheimer 11-11-10 08:44 AM


Originally Posted by nlerner (Post 11770296)
I lace wheels at the kitchen table. Good lighting, good work surface, family nearby. Then it's down to the basement/dungeon for truing.

Neal

Good choice...the refrigerator is also nearby. ;)

stien 11-11-10 08:52 AM


Originally Posted by nlerner (Post 11769399)
Could be, Alex, but you haven't yet seen my basement!

Neal

Lol, then I'm wrong. You have more than that?

-holiday76 11-11-10 09:09 AM

inside here is where all the magic happens

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bYNfObzpWyA/TN...s576/photo.JPG

rhm 11-11-10 09:32 AM

In the last couple of years, I've worked on bikes in the kitchen, in the basement, in the back yard, on the patio at my beach house, at the sides of many roads, a couple of benches in Central Park, a NYC subway car... and that's just the ones I can think of at the speed my fingers type.

Usually I work in the kitchen, though... the light is pretty good. Don't tell my wife.

Glennfordx4 11-11-10 10:01 AM

I work out of a 12'x24' garage and have 8'x16' & 10'x12' storage sheds to help with storage ( still out of room). I haven't been doing a whole lot of bicycle work as I am trying to get my shop reorganized after I bought a huge glass bead/sandblasting cabinet. I have been going through boxes of parts and tools and you name it trying to get a handle on it and sometime I think I am fighting a losing battle LOL. I Just finished wiring my electrical panel so I can hook up my 80 gal compressor that has been sitting idle for the last 3 years along with service for a miller arc welder I just picked up from a friend. I plan on doing more restoration and fabrication work when I am done getting everything set up. We will be running Natural gas and hot & cold water out to it by next year also.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...andem021-1.jpg
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http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...ikepics053.jpg

nlerner 11-11-10 10:06 AM


Originally Posted by stien (Post 11770684)
Lol, then I'm wrong. You have more than that?

Well, there's the wheel closet (with a few bikes packed in):

http://web.mit.edu/nlerner/Public/Bi...rSanctum12.jpg

And the rim/fender closet (a former shower):

http://web.mit.edu/nlerner/Public/Bi...rSanctum10.jpg

But I don't mean to compete with Dave. I'd rather have less stuff than more.

Neal

gbalke 11-11-10 12:59 PM

I can't work on my bikes in the garage; my 914's on one side and the other side is crammed full of bikes. So I choose to work just outside of the garage. I have a fenced in courtyard enclosing the garage so it's very private and secure. Photo of a Twenty in the work stand just outside of the garage.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/...5c894b38_z.jpg

Same Twenty parked at the double gates that lead into my courtyard.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1219/...c6251bb7_z.jpg

I have an office in the basement that I am rearranging to make room for a small workbench and my workstand so I can work indoors during cold weather.

RobbieTunes 11-11-10 01:13 PM

I don't have a lot of space or money invested:
Sports rack $5 yard sale item.
Repair rack $34 shipped from eBay.
My entire tool collection is in the blue box. One drawer is bike tools.

This is the main area, and at present is cluttered. It gets cleaned out 4x a year.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...sPhotos025.jpg

Thumpic 11-11-10 04:37 PM

usually in the street......... about 5 houses down from mine......

AZORCH 11-12-10 05:59 PM

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This is my wrenching/storage space - a large section of our garage, which the wife would like to use for parking her car. But you know what? I think the van looks pretty good sitting out in the driveway myself...

3speedslow 11-12-10 09:02 PM

Outside on the carport during the summer, in the mudroom next to the kitchen in the fall and the kitchen in winter.

3ss

Rabid Koala 11-12-10 09:33 PM

In half of a two car garage. No basements in Southern CA, sadly.

poprad 11-13-10 08:21 AM

Like others in this thread, my Fed job has me moving every 2 to 3 years, which was fine before I started to accumulate so many bikes. I now have all but one of the in storage, and currently work on my bike on the balcony of our 18th floor apartment in Arlington, VA. We have an excellent view of the Washington Monument and the Capitol bldg, which is cool, but soon it's going to be freezing out there. Cobbling together a "do all" repair kit in a small toolbox was kind of a fun challenge. My full tool set is, like the bikes, in long term USG storage, so I needed to have enought ools to do most jobs. I started with the Park advanced kit and supplemented it with Craftsman hand tools and such, maybe I'll take a pic of the full set sometime. Anyway, that combined with a good stand is enough for my current needs. I can do anything short of a wheel rebuild, and tested that theory by building up my latest bike using only what I had in the box...well, I did cheat and use my fanter in laws soldering gun for the cable ends, but that's the only exception.

So, here was my last workspace, one stall of a 3 stall garage we had in our Portland house. I felt this was the perfect size for me, and will probably do something very siilar in the future:

[IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2066/...cf538e0ea4.jpg[/IMG]

Oh, and like some others mentioned, pairing of projects and beers is an art form. For a full on build up I like a heavy Belgain Trappist Ale or something local and high-alcohol content. For routine stuff like cleaning or small repairs I go with lighter ales, like a wheat beer.

cb400bill 11-19-10 06:52 PM

I've just got done moving some of my bike stuff into a freshly emptied 9'x12' section of the basement. This will be my first winter workshop. I've found that I am much more productive working on bikes when my hands aren't frozen. :lol:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_FfM_jO4_Tm0/TO...2/P1000811.JPG

rekmeyata 11-19-10 07:35 PM

Basement, my garage is filled with cars. I actually have three workshops, one in the basement for the bikes, one in the garage for cars I keep at the house, and another at a friends place where I keep other cars I own.

marley mission 11-20-10 12:51 PM

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this is my nook right here for storage and working on bikes

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rumrunn6 11-20-10 10:46 PM

wow, nice shops!


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