Don't think I've seen a post like this yet but who knows....

I was curious on others bench set ups. Getting ready to make a personal one for home use rather than always going into work to do all my repairs and such.

Pics please

The coffee table in the family room. I just bring in the tools I need. I like to watch sports while working.

1. My workshop.

2. My basement.

3. My carport.

I need to clear out the workshop so it is more shop and less bike storage.

This is the picture of about half my workshop (the other half looks worse). I took it about a year ago. It hasn't gotten any better....

I wrench in the bat cave (ca. 1920 bungalow with the drive in basement) with my headphones in and a drink nearby. I've been using my amp road cases as movable tool caddies. I'm too ashamed of its current state to post a photo.

I also bring bikes and beer to my LBS and use their tools.

I Work at a LBS so i do 99 percent of my wrenching is done there but want my own bat cave so to speak. A good wheel building set up would be cool to see i just sit on the couch as of now.

Garage, workshop, home office....wherever I have room to do what I need to do. Although soon less in the unheated Minnesota garage.

My family owns a transmission parts warehouse, used to do rebuilding, but that part died, so I use the empty space to work.

last winter I tied a bike rack to the railing around my patio so I could clean and lube my bike outside. that worked really well even when the weather turned more fair.

my 1930's dilapidated garage/shack is my dedicated wrenching spot. Vintage building for vintage bikes.

in my living room. it's not the most optimal setup, but in an apartment, hard to do better.

Doohickie, You are either single or you have the worlds most understanding wife.

I have this walk-in basement, also known as a daylight basement. It's huge, around 2000 square feet. About half is dedicated to bikes. I need to get it better organized.

i live in a Apartment so most my work is done on the balcony !!!! and my living room !

In my garage aka my man cave. I have HDTV and a stereo for my viewing and listening pleasure. I also have an old couch to relax on. It's messy but it works. No photos, sorry.

Neither, actually. She's a teacher and she's so feakin' busy all the time, she usually never notices. The best thing I did was set up the spare bedroom as her office. Once she goes down the hall to work, I'm pretty much free to wrench. Our family room is pretty informal too. Hardwood floors, a dog-hair-covered sofa, a TV/stereo, a computer and a bunch of book cases. It's almost, but not quite, a man cave. If too much crap piles up in there, though, I hear about it.

I park my bikes just inside my front door, in the living room. She used to complain about that, but she's given up. And I just got her a bike, so her bike just adds to that mess. She's my partner in crime.

Small jobs get done on the work bench:



I usually have my bike stand set up in the same room about where I was standing to take this photo. Really dirty work and/or washing gets done out on the patio or maybe the garage.

I have a shop set up just for bikes in a room in the basement. It was a birthday gift from My Lovely Wife™.

the basement mostly. in the warmer months i take it out onto my covered porch with a beer.

usually on the side of the road

i prefer to wrench in the garage, but if i need to keep an eye on the kids i will bring the tools i need into the house and explain what i am doing. they will pay attention for a few minutes and then run off to break some toys in the other room while i finish whatever i'm doing. then i start fixing the broken toys

University of Washington bike shop. I do a bit of volunteering there, but am in there mostly to use the tools and hang with the boys.

Primarily my shop and occasionally in the living room if I'm watching the kids while my wife is out in the evening and I have parts to clean.

I share the construction workbench/table with my contractor brother-in-law. The overall size of it comes in real handy.

I have one half of a two car garage, as long as the wife can pull her car in and has a clear path to the washer/dryer she's fine.

Happen to have a couple of picks although Frankenbike is front and center. These were from a couple of months ago, it's been cleaned and organized since, but entropy is still slowly in action.





Also a couple of the bikes in the background have since moved onto other homes.

Another one with an unheated garage in Minnesota, the bike building season is about to end for me.

Oh, and it's a bit of a crowded disaster area.

in Fair weather its my Front Porch. In cold weather its the Bar Room, and I have a tendancy to make a mess of it.

My biggest issue is that I've got basically 2 places to keep bikes. My basement, which is fine from about October thru March but then gets too damp for the warmer parts of the year....And my Front Porch. Its covered but If the temperature swings just right my bikes can get condensation on em.

Lucky you, Roccobike! that's the total sq. footage of most houses!

It's finally wrenching weather down here. It's inhumanly hot in the Summer in the garage. I have a tight 3-car garage that I must share space with my wife's car. Third stall is the work area.