The Thin Man 

In Portland, people park bikes everywhere. Some house their bicycles in their kitchen, next to the fridge. Others in a locked and buried shipping container reached via a secret entrance that can only be accessed after passing a security system consisting of a roving Doberman, biometric scan, and three questions from the Bridgekeeper. But here, occasionally high-end bikes are being stolen from local garages and other areas deemed safe so it's a topic I'm curious how others are doing it.

I am looking for two different topics to be addressed: 1) Inspiration on creative and secure storage and 2) ways to keep bicycles stable and/or out of the way.

I'm keeping this vague for a reason.

Let's see what you've got.

Photos welcome.

otg 

Coprone

I have them almost in my garage, stacked on top of eachother because of no free room there.

PhilPub

In my main living room, in a corner by the book shelf. Out-of-the-way enough not be intrusive in the living space, accessible enough that I can still spend more time staring at it on a daily basis than I do riding it! I live in an OK area, in a converted property with communal double locked door and my own double locked front door, so it's safe enough for me without putting it in a vault.

*edit* Then there's the utility bike which sits in the spare room/bike part room, and the track bike which is stored in a secure locker at the velodrome.

oddjob2

Left to right:
81 Schwinn Super Sport
85 Trek 560 (bare hook)
84 Trek 520
88 Trek 360
89 Ironman Expert
86 Trek 520 Cirrus
92 ish Schwinn PDG Series 40
86 Trek 620
Cannondale
88 Cannondale SR 500
Motobecane C41
Cannondale LL Bean
06 Trek Pilot 2.1 WSD

Italuminium

By putting them mostly in other family members' way, it seems.

jimmuller 

What he said.

Michael Angelo 

Anywhere my wife doesn't want them, that's where they go.

iab

On the wall






On the trainer in the winter






Parts on the shelf





Wheels under the stairs

bwilli88 

Out back in my cage work shop. normally hanging by the front wheel.

seypat

If you are looking for a cheap portable stand, a wooden pallet leaned up against the wall will work. Or one against the wall and a corresponding one on the floor in front of it.

sloar 

I built a table to keep my "nice" bikes on. My garage is always full of bikes and i keep the nice ones up high to keep my kids from hitting them when they are getting their bikes.

Phil_gretz

8 bikes on hooks (inverted) or hung via pulley from my garage ceiling. 3 bikes hung on hooks from the rafters in my basement shop area. Room for one bike (the one recently used) in the basement walk in entry, using a front-wheel display stand.

Mostly, the basement hanging storage is for to-be-serviced or recently serviced bikes. Of course, there's the work stand (where there's always another bike "in process").

In my home, bikes are not permitted where humans use the inside of the house. Not ever. Never. And touching or leaving marks on the wall ... well, that's a serious offense.

SJX426 

Single car garage is tough so I hang three on the side parallel to the wall, keep one hanging in a storage unit and my best one over a railing on the third floor where I am the only one who has to walk around it. I rent currently so I am not intersted in hanging anything on the walls that will need repair when leaving. Even my garage hangers are temporary without any impact to the sheet rock. Two verticle 2x4's bolted to a horizontal one cut to length between the garage door braket and the door wall. I bolted through the holes in the angel supporting the door runner and cut another 2x4 to keep the other end from flopping around between the door and the wall. I hang bikes from all three 2x4's. One of them has a hook to hang a air hose or wheel.

seedsbelize 

My wife is very understanding. One of those bikes is hers.

The Thin Man 

Great stuff everyone!

A local Portland bike blog asked the same question and got some other nifty solutions.

Here's how a few others do it.

#12 is pretty ingenious for quick storage on your daily rider(s) and sports a low price tag.

Scooper

They use about half of the room I use as my office/den.

TheTeaHermit

I can't make any sort of permanent modifications to the apartment I live in. My current setup is not ideal, but it works well enough until I finish school and am able to set up some place with proper storage and work space. I managed to get this free standing rack for fairly cheap, the main issue I run into is that all my bikes are larger sized so it is hard to fit them on there, the wheels often overall the seat and bars of the one below it.

eschlwc

my four are inside, resting upright against a wall, all with u-locks, and all in different rooms so i can always enjoy their beauty. when i leave for a week or more, i move them to a central area and lock them to each other.

the cat has never knocked one over. good kitty.

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GordoTrek

i took these pictures with something else in mind, but this is how they are stored, i currently have 7 hanging, including the wifes panasonic and my son's 24" nishiki, not a ton of room, my house is really tall but doesn't have any width, its essentially a 40x40 square

scozim 

I'm lucky to have a large shop on our rural property. While I need a ladder this solution has been nice to get the bikes out of the way.

arex

Stacked against the living room wall, and hope the dogs don't knock them over.

RALEIGH_COMP 

SvenMN 

I am all in for high and safe in the garage, out of sight from the street. The exception is during the winter months when they are in a heated space to avoid the temperature variations. Then they are either in the trainers or in the basement workshop.