Hey, is that Sixtyfiver?!!

Nice Gran Sport with a FORGED dropout!!

So much for my secret identity...

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

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.

In my basement or at my LBS.

yes it is freestanding

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.

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

inside here is where all the magic happens

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.

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.

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



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



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

Neal

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.


Same Twenty parked at the double gates that lead into my courtyard.


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.

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.

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

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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...

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

3ss

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

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:

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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.

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.

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.

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

wow, nice shops!