Setup space for work on bikes.
 

Show me how you have setup your work space for work on your bikes. Home space garage space even bike shops work space is welcome to show your pictures. Do you think is more easy work on your bikes with good setup on the tools on the wall? Than to work on bikes and you have all of your tools the basic bike tools in one tool box and grab each too from the tool box when you need different tool?

Mine are on the wall because when I set up my bike shop I had only diamond frame bikes to work on. Today I work mainly on recumbents and trikes. Each one has it's own fixture or method of clamping so that I can work on it. The trikes in particular take up a lot of space so I prefer to work on them in the garage. If I were doing it today, I'd store all of my tools in a roll around cart that I could push to wherever I'm working.

its all ad hoc as I can not afford the real estate costs for a permanent work space.
just a small 1 brm House .. no Garage

tall multi drawer tool box was just bought, [30%off] I'll get the boxes hauled home next week..

there are in multiple small ones now, as they have been for 30 years..

as I said elsewhere I am good friends and an occasional employee at the LBS for using tools I dont Own.

And lending them some I have but they Dont.

I'm lucky to have some space in the basement to keep my stand set up in. Everything else is improvised with my most-used tools in a metal toolbox, and lesser-used ones in some wooden drawers. My "workbench" is a stack of three plastic tubs. Doing work outside on summer days means a lot of trips up and down the basement stairs. Would love to have a spacious garage or a dedicated shed, or a nice workbench and some wall space but I don't have those things and have to make do with the available space that I do have.

You can see some photos of my space here:

https://www.loosescrews.com/an-interview-with-chris/

Scroll down about halfway, and you'll see my plastic-tub "workbench" in action.

My bikes share a garage workshop with home maintenance, some woodworking, hobbies, and light fabrication for a small business. I'm a big fan of the "visual workspace," where everything you need is in plain sight. So I've got my most frequently used tools on a wall hanger, including bike tools. But I don't have space for a work stand. Sometimes I clamp a 2x4 to my workbench and hang a bike from it.

I don't have a shed, I don't have a garage, I don't have a home. I'm stuck at my mother's house for the time being (not fun in your 40's.)

When I did have a garage, I had a workbench and had a vice on it. I used a woodworking pipe clamp held in the vice. That's how I tore apart the old Walmart bike to clean up and get working when I first started riding.

I bought my Giant in 2014. I haven't had to do anything other than wash it and tweak the front derailleur barrel adjustment to eliminate some noise when I was in higher gears on the 2nd chain ring. I lived in constant hills and if I was heading uphill, I was going to the small chainring anyways so I adjusted to use the highest gears on the 2nd ring and not have the derailleur cage rub.

No need for a stand or work area for that. I need to give it another adjustment though because I'm not in such extreme constant hills and find myself running the large chainring often now and rarely go to the smaller chainring. So, when heading uphill now I'm using more of the lower gears in the middle ring and the derailleur cage is rubbing there now.

I'm going to have to get a stand because I don't ever take my car to the shop, so I want to try my hand at tearing apart the bottom bracket, hubs, etc to clean and grease. I can change a clutch and head gasket in a car, I'm sure the bike maintenance is a piece of cake.

Who started this thread?

I don't have any dedicated space for bikes but have am fortunate to have plenty of shop space. Since I stopped messing with cars and bikes I don't need all the space and in the last couple of weeks have been trying to get some space partitioned off for sort of a small man cave/work shop that can be heated and cooled more reasonably. I built it about 8 years ago, here is a picture from a couple years or so back.
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/...psccbd2b66.jpg
I built the partition across the back 2 bays with an 8" ceiling so that I could store stuff on top of it. It had gotten pretty piled up since I stopped working on cars (sold the lift, all of my powder coating equipment in the last year) but here it is as I finished over the weekend.
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/...s9xk7htsp.jpeg
I'm about half done with what I've got in mine for this evolution. I will have a dedicated bike area in the back room. I've got an old (1956 Lodge & Shipley) lathe I'm restoring and I'd like to refinish my mill (1971 Enco J-head clone) alone with a couple other personal but non bike related projects.

My workshop is out in the yard. It's an oddly curved tree shaped just right to suspend the bike, and pretty secure after I bungee the seat post around the tree limb. I keep my tools in a large flat plastic Rubbermaid container that slides under the bed or other furniture. Good enough for basic adjustments, cleaning the chain and tire repairs/swaps.

Got divorced and the house and garage were hers. The kitchen isn't a bad place to work on a bike in my apartment. Decent counter space on the right of the bike for whatever I am working on.

http://i.imgur.com/NPyKQDW.png