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Where to keep the bloody bikes?

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Thosedarnbikes · 21/01/2020 12:25

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?

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Deux · 21/01/2020 12:49

I think your DH is being ridiculous to expect to store his bikes in the house when you have a garage. Surely the most obvious solution is to make the garage secure. Well it should be secure anyway.

We have an attached garage and it would be pretty hard to break in to it, or at least as difficult to breaking in to the house.

We have as Asgard bike shed and it’s great and complies with all insurance requirements.

No way would I cope with having bikes cluttering up the house. You’re a saint to have been so tolerant. That said, I’ve come across a certain type of male cyclist who puts their cycling before wife, family and everything else.

Kazzyhoward · 21/01/2020 12:50

Surely you just make the garage more secure? You can get top quality locks, alarms, etc. We have our bikes in a garden shed but it's secured like Fort Knox and connected to the house alarm system.

myself2020 · 21/01/2020 12:50

ours are in the garage - we have heavy duty metal loops installed in the wall, and use a motorcycle chain lock to secure them to the loops. plus light with motion detector in the garage. its possible to steal them, but unlikely

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Thosedarnbikes · 21/01/2020 12:52

@thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul good question Wink I imagine the 2 latter...!

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 21/01/2020 12:52

I had to let an electron into my neighbours house and was confronted by a pole with several bikes on it.

We keep ours in a garage in a secure compound with 24hr armed guards. But that's because we live there (military base) rather than for security... But the safety aspect is brilliant

bobstersmum · 21/01/2020 12:53

We have about 3k of bikes in our not very secure garage (dh bike is an e bike) we have them chained together so would be extremely difficult to steal.

BarbaraofSeville · 21/01/2020 12:55

In the garage, secured with really good chains and padlocks. If your garage is not as secure as your house, it would make sense to make the garage more secure, not fill the house with bikes surely?

And is the house that secure? People get burgled don't they?

steppemum · 21/01/2020 13:01
  1. check with insurance about what they will and won't cover and if the garage is secure enough
  2. If they say garage is not secure enough, then ask the insurance company what you need to do to make it secure. (replacing garage door with a wall and proper secure doors would probably only cost the same as one of those bikes
  3. secure garage
  4. put bikes in the garage.

Sorry, but this is complete nonsense and your dh is being an idiot. You have a large storage space for transport items, it is called a GARAGE. That is the appropriate place for the bikes!
When you don't have a garage that is different, but if you have one, then there is no way the bikes should be in the house.
Fair enough if the garage needs a new door, but that is where they shoudl be

andyjusthangingaround · 21/01/2020 13:05

YANBU - ours in the under staircase cupboard

Lonecatwithkitten · 21/01/2020 13:12

Our garage has been converted to a bicycle empire for the 17 bikes. Their wheels are all remove, most off them have their drive train remove and they are hung on proper racking. The turbo trainer also lives in there and finally all the tools are there too.
Extra security includes the bicycle empire can only be accessed through the house there is a wall between made of two layers of plaster board with steel mesh between shutting the garage door off and steel mesh over the window / however, a conservative estimate to replace all the kit would be 100K.

MAFIL · 21/01/2020 13:13

Err, yes, we do live amongst bikes. We love our bikes.
The cheaper ones and those that get dirtiest live in the porch. I don't allow mountain bikes into the main house. The good bikes live in the hall or living room. Currently my summer road bike and DS's track bike are in the living room with a couple of turbo trainers and a set of rollers, DS's road bike is in the hall and and there are half a dozen in the porch. Oh, and a kids cyclocross bike upstairs on the landing. I really need to sell that.
DH keeps saying he is going to put some racks on the wall in the porch which would probably be a good idea as it is getting a bit crowded in there.
I would never keep bikes in the garage. That's asking for trouble. We live in a very low crime area, but even here it is not unusual to hear of decent bikes being stolen from garages or outbuildings. Brsides which, they would get cold and lonely. Grin

BrimfulofSasha · 21/01/2020 13:18

We have 5 bikes for a family of 3!

DD has a mountain bike

I have a road bike

OH has a road, a hybrid/tourer and a mountain bike.

Both road bikes are expensive so are kept in out hall.
The hybrid and DD's are in the shed, OH mountain is at his work currently as he sometimes uses it to commute.

Ginkypig · 21/01/2020 13:21

My dp's bike I see in my neighbours spare upstairs bedroom Blush
She says she is fine with it staying there as she never uses it.

I live in a small house and it used to be in the narrow hall but at Christmas I needed it out of the house and she offered the space so it'll stay there until he either sells it or gets a ring put into the garden because that's the only options because I am sick of hurting my hip on the bloody thing!

KittenVsBox · 21/01/2020 13:24

Friend built a false wall in back of garage, with sufficient racks and locks to keep everyone happy (they bought the house because the garage was big enough to do this, and still get the car in)

ioioitsoff · 21/01/2020 13:26

In the entrance hall.

MerryDeath · 21/01/2020 13:26

ours live in the garage. just this very morning i have politely requested that H wheel them in to the garage via either the garage or the side path 🙄 it seems this had not occurred to him 🙄 it gets left in our dining room until he gets round to taking it through 🙄 and then our toddler goes and plays with the chain 🙄 not to mention the mud 🙄 all because H did not think perhaps it could go through one of the other two ways in.

SeagullOnTheWind · 21/01/2020 13:29

Our flat comes with access to a joint bin store/ bike shed. However, the management company have refused to get us keys so we can look it. So we can lock our bikes to the storage mechanisms but anyone could just walk in with a set of bolt cutters. If we had a garage, it would have a metal thingy cemented in to lock them to.

Pumpinator · 21/01/2020 13:31

Our garage is very secure but I still use one of these www.amazon.co.uk/Kryptonite-Strong-Hold-Above-Ground/dp/B000LF903M/?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 and a nulock (go on youtube to watch people reviewing, it's so loud)

okiedokieme · 21/01/2020 13:42

Garage, don't lock them up though, would be doing me a favour, I want a new bike and it's insured

steppemum · 21/01/2020 13:44

but even here it is not unusual to hear of decent bikes being stolen from garages or outbuildings.

so secure the garage! see the pp who has a steel mesh wall to make the garage secure.

KnifeAngel · 21/01/2020 13:46

www.asgardsss.co.uk/bike-cycle-storage?gclid=CjwKCAiA35rxBRAWEiwADqB372CXgWmLSh6Bym0eCxgMCIlfniM4xOH8QScir9m1ZRDBObLbDobuhhoCHMIQAvD_BwE

My brother who is very into cycling and has one if these in his garden. All his friends have them for their bikes too.

GreatBritishbakeofffan · 21/01/2020 13:49

Omg, I sympathise with you Op. stand your ground now before bit takes over! I might be one bike for now but soon enough it will be seven and you'll have tyres and spare wheels hanging off the walls! Our dining room is now the bike room. He doesn't even bother putting away his cycle trainer now Sad
I hate looking at that room, so I keep the door closed at all times.

Stickybeaksid · 21/01/2020 13:51

Chained to a ladder in our side passage. If they want the bikes they will need to take the ladder with them. Our bikes are insured so they are replaceable

lampygirl · 21/01/2020 13:57

Me and DP's road bikes live in the house, hung on the walls, as at the moment do the CX bikes though these are heavier and have chunky tyres so are not hung on the wall, they are rinsed off first. The MTBs are in the shed where we have a concreted in metal frame to lock them to, these are the only bikes that cost less then £1k and also get the most grim. Our downstairs spare room has had that rubber flooring mat put down and also the turbo trainer is in there along with the tools etc.

BikeRunSki · 21/01/2020 14:01

We bought our house because of the garage. I think we currently have 12 bikes between 4. We have d rings bolted to the concrete floor. The bikes are chained to them and to each other. We also have a very £££££ electric roller shutter door with no gaps round.