Where do you keep your bike?
 

My work provides some space for bike parking. There's a few of us who ride, on a good day maybe 5 or 6 bikes out of a 300 person office. The bike parking is a parking space in the garage which is shared with the rest of the building, and is restricted access. No public parking allowed.

I was recently lucky enough to get a nice new carbon framed road bike. Not cheap... but a real pleasure to ride. Anyway, I'd love to ride it to work, but... I don't see it being locked in the garage for more than a few months before getting nicked. So I'm still riding my old steel framed beater to work every day...

So what I'm wondering is-
Does your work provide a safe place to keep bikes?
Have you had any issues with garage bike parking?
What alternatives have you found if no safe place is provided?

i work in a paper mill, the company supplies us with a bike rack out side, but i prefer to walk my bike into the mill and stash it under a steel staircase about 30' away from my work area. its never out of my sight and it would be very difficult for it to be hit or damaged where it is.
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My employer lets me keep my bike inside the workplace, so there's no need to worry about locking it up. If my bike does get nicked or scratched at work so be it, and as of now my bike has no noticeable scratches, nicks or dings.

I park mine on the bike rack at the Charbucks across from my work.

I ride a frankenbike Xtracycle, though, so I'm not particularly worried about nicks and scratches.

My employer lets me keep it in the breakroom. No one messes with it, and it is secure in the building.

I keep my bike locked up in a cage for county workers only. There's about 5 to 8 bikes in the cage depending on the day. The cage is also next to CSI building and also a block away from the Sheriffs department. The only way into the cage is with a pass. It's a high foot traffic area also. Bad thing is I've heard of people getting there bike stolen from inside the cage. That means they have to brake into the cage and then brake into the locked bike just to get a bike.

There's also about 8 box containers where you can put your bike into and then just lock the door from the outside. No one can see how your bike looks like but there all taken.

Next to the swimming pool and the hot tub. Not joking.

Mine leans against the wall about 6 feet away from me. It's in our operations room which is a secure are only accessible to the few of us that work in this room. The company premises are also high security (no public access) with cameras monitoring all entry/exists and the main corridors, all being recorded 24/7.

Of the 8 people that have access to my area 3 of us commute by bike, and the other 5 know that its a seriously bad idea to even think about messing with our bikes.

At my last job it was right outside my office door, just a few feet from my desk.
I now work at a bike shop and keep it in one of the display spaces on the showroom floor. :D

I used to keep it in the cube next to mine, but that got filled, so now it sits in the back of our receiving area. Suprisingly no one messes with it (we do a lot of pranks here) except for one guy who just rides around the office with it now and again, which I have no issues with.

I work on a college campus so bikes are stored, left, abandoned everywhere. They took away the bike racks last fall (moved them) to do some repairs and never put them back.

Now I just lean my bike against the wall right outside the front door in a high traffic area. Only someone 6'3" or taller could even get on my bike so the U-lock seems to be working...

We have bike racks here at work, but because my office has no windows and I can't see them, I asked my employer to let me keep it in my office. They were nice enough to say yes, so long as I made sure to clean up any mud or stuff I bring in.
I've kept my end of the bargin, they kept theirs:)

Bike rack in front of the security desk. Security guys know who I am, and that the bike is mine. Cameras are pointed to that location 24hrs/day.

I have a door from my office to the deck outside...so my bike gets parked on the deck, right outside the door.

I was lucky to find a bike rack on the first floor of an underground garage just down the street from my office. So it is out of the weather and doesn't seem to be disturbed. The only problem is that as gas gets more expensive and the weather gets better the rack fills up completely if you arrive late. I'm just beginning to explore possible storage options in the garage of our building. There are at least 3 bike commuters in the building (and its a small building) so it would have beneficial effects for a decent percentage of people.

Not wanting to park mine on the rack with 40 bikes tiny bikes at the K-8 school where I teach, I set it against a wall in a classroom that's only used afterschool. Kids have access to it for about 45 min before I leave but they are supervised and if they did mess with it this is a Catholic school so I can always get a nun to beat them :D

I work in the heart of Old Town, Alexandria, VA. Alexandria is a city of 170,000 people and about 5 minutes outside of downtown Washington. Fairly large. I work in a 6 floor building where my employer owns the building, and we have about 8 "tennants" that rent space from us. Total people in the building probably around 150, about 100 of which are employees of my company. The bike rack is in the garage in the basement of the building. It is secure, and closed to the public. You must posess a kastle keycard to get into the garage. Its pretty small, only about 25-35 parking spaces, one level. Im pretty much the only one who uses the bike rack there. Theres one other bike on it, but ive never seen it moved. I highly doubt anything would ever get stolen in there, nor my bike knicked. Its out of the way, and under a security camera too.

Sturdy bike rack in a (mostly) keycard accessible garage with cameras all over the place. I still use a U-lock and a cable lock. The U-lock lives on the rack.

I put my bike in the back of the equipment shop. It's out of the way and anyone hardly goes back there to get anything. I'm still debating with myself whether I should lock it up or not just to keep honest people honest. ;)

Mine currently sits in a utility room (houses some power panels and our building UPS) on the first floor. I'm one of about three people with keycard access.

Mine sits in a little-used section of our warehouse. I was offered to let it stay in my office, but I didn't like the clutter. After speaking with our warehouse manager and several of the employees down there, we found a nice, secure spot for it that's out of the way. If they need to move it, they do without worrying about me caring. I just appreciate them sharing their workplace with my bike.

I count myself lucky, it's nice to be able to keep the bike inside.

We have two bike racks in the parking garage of our building. Sometimes it gets a little tight with all the cars parked in front of the racks, but I manage to get by. DC requires all office buildings with car parking to provide bicycle parking as well.

My bike has a vacant cubicle to itself. Well, it shares the cube w/ the big birthing ball that the IT guy sits on when his back is acting up.

Mine's parked outdoors on the wheelchair ramp and locked to the steel handrail.

I know that's not cool from an accessibility standpoint, but the ramp is wide enough for a chair to get past without a problem. Nobody's complained yet. If the issue arises, I'll ask for a bike rack or to bring it inside.

I have a bike box in the city garage adjacent to my building. Costs me $5 a month, which is a bargain. Allows me the piece of mind to bring any of my babies.