Where/How Do You Store Your Bike During the Day?
 

As a school teacher, I HAD an empty room next door where I could change clothes and safely store my bike. That situation has changed and I am thinking of other options for storing my $3500 road bike. I may be able to hang it from the ceiling out of reach from eleven year olds.
Looking for new exciting bright ideas.
Robbie-Wasabi

There's an empty cube right across the wall from me, so I keep my bike in there. I drape my clothes over it and turn on the fan to dry all my stuff from the morning.

Consider a cheap bike. My carbon road bike is safely tucked away at home, and comes out for fun rides, but my aluminum CX bike is locked to the rack outside the building I work at.

i'm fortunate to have access to a locked storage room in the basement of my office building.

Some schools have a maintenance/storage mini buildings or sheds, right next to schools
A elementary school near me does have one....getting a key to that COULD work as a storage solution....

This is my solution too.

My bike sits next to me in my office, but I'm lucky that way.

I friend of mine is a high-school teacher, and he leaves his bike next to him in the classroom. Can you do that? Can't the 11-year old be trusted to not touch it?

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I'm lucky enough to be able to bring mine into the office with me, and happened upon this nice stand from Target :)

My CAAD9 sits (just reached over and touched it, yep) right next to me.

I'm always leery of trusting bike racks here (I carry my bike into the classrooms at the University without any issue thankfully). 99% of the bikes that are stolen and pawned in the RGV aren't expensive, nice ones. They're the common bikes you'd see at big box stores.

Don't tell the elevator people but I keep my bike in the elevator service room when I'm at work, I park it right under the "do not store anything in this room" sign:)

in my cube...so far have not been busted by facilities.

I rent a bike box in the city garage across the street from my office. $5/month.

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You change clothes in there too???

Thanks for the idea, maybe I'll make a rack of some kind...there is a little bit of wall space left in my room.

I thought about this, but often times, I'll take off for a 30-50 mile ride on the way home with some climbing and intervals and stuff.

Ya, my kids are great. They know it's a quality machine and stay away from it, but it's still a bit in the way. So I think I'll try to hang it up on the wall. The reason I brought all this up, is one of the boys in class caught my bike from falling to the floor today after someone bumped it leaning against the wall. Thanks for all the ideas...keep them coming.

The office where I work at the moment has a covered break patio with a few picnic tables. Other than smoke breaks, nobody uses the area, so I lock my bike up to one of the posts. I prefer to keep my bikes out of the sun and rain/snow f I am parking them for more than an hour.

I am a teacher also- middle school PE - and I stash mine in a ball closet that only the PE staff use. Guess I am lucky.

I roll it into my office and lean it up against the wall. When I had a cube, I leaned up up against a desk in the common area near the printer.

Can you go home and switch bikes? It's better if you don't have to. They don't give me a choice; no bikes allowed in the building.

We have an unused office at my work that we just store random things in. Plenty of space to park my ride. When we move locations in the next month or so I will be able to park it in an office I will share with a male co-worker. We are cool with each other, and he doesn't care about having an office, so I will still have a place inside to lock it up. :-)

Next to my desk.

I rent at a indoor bike parking facility. Two blocks from the office, $100/year. Worth every penny.

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Next to the safe, guarded by the snake.

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A bike stand to keep your bike upright and not having to lean it against the wall will help. Also a cover may help as it will make the appearance larger and may prevent getting bump like on the handle bar.