Where to keep the bloody bikes?

[Thosedarnbikes]

If your OHs (or you!) cycle, where do they keep their sodding bikes?? Having a battle about whether the garage is secure enough. Surely you don’t all live amongst bikes in your house?!

Any tips for highly secure storage methods I could convince DH with??

AIBU to not want to share my house with a selection of bikes?

We keep the two priciest ones in the house, with wheels and peddles off so they take up less room.

Others live in the shed (no garage). They’re all insured.

After mine got stolen from my back yard . I now have to keep my new bike in my dining room .
If I had a garage I would keep it in there .

Garage. Ours is attached to the house and they are secured in there as well. As is the canoe and other expensive stuff. They are insured and the insurance are aware they are stored in the garage.

I’m open plan downstairs, and there are 4 bikes to my right now. I think of them as ornaments. There are another 4 lower value, insured and in the shed.

Ours live in the house as we don't have a garage or any outside space. We have 9 (!) But we deliberately chose our house because it has the living room in the basement so there is a spare reception room on the ground floor that we just put them all in. It's sort of like an indoor garage really.

@caulkheaded good idea about taking wheels and peddles off - which room out of interest? Having previously lived in a flat amongst DH’s bikes I would like to not have them in the way!!

@Ellisandra I can appreciate you’d think of them as ornaments if they’re your own prized possessions but what if they weren’t yours and you had no interest?? Drives me mad! Maybe IABU!

@pumpandthump DH’s arguments is that the insurance wouldn’t give back the full value and sentimentality so doesn’t think we should rely on that..

@thatmustbenigelwiththebrie That would cause me so much stress makes me feel bad for being annoyed at DH for having a couple of bikes in the dining room currently but I just hate it and feel like it’s an eyesore/looks like a student house!!

We’ve got one in an under stairs cupboard. It used to be on the wall in there but now it’s just upside down.

Two more frames in some dead storage in the loft conversion (ie sloped off area near stairs)

There’s usually one in the dining room, but it’s a terrace and that’s the room we all use a lot, so one gets dumped there until it goes to the shed. Sometimes there is a Brompton too and that makes life much easier as it folds!

Surely you make the garage more secure, not keep them in the house! I knew a guy who kept his motorbike in the house - single for a good reason! There are plenty of ways to make a garage more secure.

Our garage is full of bikes, but we just go for bike rides or use bikes as transport rather than cycle in the lycra clad, whole family and probably other people too must make way for my hobby, potentially marriage destroying ego driven sense.

Asgard bike shed.

In the conservatory, blocked off with a room divider so they can't be seen by anyone peering in. Previously managed to fit 3 under the spare bed (wheels and pedals off, frames flat to the floor in bike bags, wheels the placed on top) and two in the cupboard under the stairs

Garage. Attached to house.

They are secured with the heaviest duty chain we could buy through the frames. It’s so heavy I struggle to lift it.

“Double Doofer” ground anchors have been drilled into the concrete floor and the chain goes through that. Best padlocks we could buy.

We have drilled a ‘garage door defender’ into the driveway to prevent the garage being forced open. Also we park the car in front of the garage.

Also they are insured.

We installed a metal ring on our garage wall, and we lock all our bikes together, and then padlock them to the ring.

@thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul this is my thinking too but DH tells me all his cycling mates have 8+ bikes in their house. I just hate it!

These are all very good ideas about garage security. Will broach with DH...

Two on a wall stand on the dining room wall (good bike and commuting bike) One in the cellar (Tri-bike). Three in the garden shed (Kids' bikes).

Does my fucking head in, especially the ones in the dining room.

Thosedarnbikes single mates? Mates with equally into cycling wives, or mates with doormats for partners?

Perhaps you could convert the garage into a bachelor pad

Note, none of these bikes are mine.

Ours are in the garage with a floor anchor and a lot of locks!

Secure the garage better - this could include bricking up the front and putting in a 'front door' (assuming you don't use it for a car.)

Call the insurance company and ask. Though obviously sentimentality can't be replaced.

The road bikes live in my office. Currently my road bike is on the smart trainer, and dh and ds's are also in there. Ds's mountain bike goes in the hall during the week (he rides to and from school). My hybrid and dh's mountain bikes are in our integral garage with a chain to a wall bolt.

You see a lot of garages targeted for high end bikes, so if they went in there we would increase the garage security

Dh has his 2 bikes in his man cave on the wall with these.

Borgen Bicycle Wall Mount Pedal Hook for E-Bike, MTB, Road Bike - Wall Mount with Support Bracket and Wall Protection Pads www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D9QTXZC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OjVjEbE6EEGB7

And don't let him tell you that you can't afford to secure it better. It'll probably cost less than half of one of those bikes.

Mine's currently in the front room, along with the buggies, but we're planning to get an Asgard steel bike locker out front, bolted down to concrete.