Nachoman

Or do you just wheel it into the building dripping rain and dripping excess grease?
My office has dark carpet, but the hallway to my office is pretty darn clean and light.

CastIron

I bang it on the pavement outside and quickly scurry down to a dark hallway near the boiler room and a floor drain. All winter.

DoB

I park my bike outside wet / snowy / slushy....but I personally drip all the way to my office. On particularly wet days there are odds n ends hanging about my office drying.

When the weather is bad I often give the bike a wash on the weekends.

THe worst is dead of winter, wheeling a slushy bike into the garage (above freezing) is hell for encouraging rust. It would actually be less rusty staying outside in those conditions.

idcruiserman

Lock it up and hit the shower.

1ply

No way for me to get a bike inside the building. Outside in the cold it must stay.

I did get myself a bike cover however to make its 10 hour stay in the crappy winter a little more bearable

Tude 

I have a towel at work that I take home and wash periodically - depending on the amount of use it gets. But I do try and make it a point to wipe it down ... rust sets in, etc.

ItsJustMe

What "excess grease"? I don't have grease dripping off my bike.
I lift it and drop it on the pavement a couple of times to get off most of the dripping crud then roll it in. Facilities gave me a nice rubber floor mat to park on. I've been parking on it for 3 years now, it's never been washed, and yeah, after 3 years there's a noticable amount of dirt on it, in a couple of spots where the bike tends to drip from.

oboeguy

I lay old newspaper down and wipe off the bike. Works well on hardwood floors. Maybe not so well on carpet.

Juha

The bike stays out, in a covered bike park of sorts.

--J

BikingGrad80

I bring it on in. I work in a dirty dingy lab anyways and the place I store my bike is dingier. It's mainly water and road grit on my bike anyways.

CliftonGK1

I bounce it on the hallway carpets, which are really just there to wipe your feet on the way in, anyhow. Aside from that, no drying. Ride it hard, put it away wet.

WhiteRabbit

I also just bring mine into the lab. It has a back door and a polished concrete floor so no one minds.

CliftonGK1

Dirty, dingy labs where you can bring in bicycles?

I'm guessing these are engineering/machine labs? (I work in bioengineering, so a lot of the labs are Class 100 clean rooms)

HardyWeinberg

The latter. I feel guilty about it sometimes.

BikingGrad80

Nope I work in a Biochemsitry Lab in a public university. The lab with the bikes is used to teach the undergraduate course which is only offered in spring, so its unoccupied most of the year. It's pretty dingy. Most of the floor tiles are cracked and dirty and drain water leaks from the labs above. Nothing gets fixed here because the contractors are all union have to really be cajoled to do any work or even show up.

Brian Ratliff

We have an engineering lab which I can leave my bike in. It's got a concrete floor and I leave it near the loading door. I don't generally clean my bike when I get in.

joelpalmer

In my old office (Alameda, CA) it was no big deal. I'd wait at the door a minute to get the biggest dripping over with and then wander to my office. I would put a towel down since the offices were carpeted (old and stained, but carpeted) but the rest of the building was tile (lab work, they used the flooring to determine if you were supposed to have a labcoat on or not). Now I don't have the option - bikes get locked up in the garage.