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?

Garage. No way would I keep them in house. There's 5 of us who cycle!

I used to work with someone who has expensive bikes and a stone built "cottage" of sorts in the back. Very secure. Until thieves came in through the roof. They were devastated to lose their custom bikes. I like the sound of the several layers of plaster board and steel mesh etc.

We have no garage so a mix of secure shed and house

If you don't have a garage and do turbo training like Swift then you need a bike inside on the turbo trainer. Most club cyclists I know keep at least 1 bike indoors.

Some in Asgard bike shed, a couple in the cellar, one on the wall and usually one in the living room. My bike is chained up in front of our house. We live in a really high crime rate area and it has never been touched. We used to keep a few in the shed chained up but they were stolen...twice. We (DP) have a lot of bikes and I don’t love having them inside.

@Thosedarnbikes
How big is your garage?
Can you put an Asgard bike shed
inside the garage, for double security?

Ours are in the garage and in the back garden under a lean-to. The only way out of the back garden is through the garage so the back garden is pretty secure.

However, none of our bikes are very expensive. Dh and I both have second hand road bikes that would have cost under £1k each new. I have a hybrid bike for commuting which I bought new, dh has a commuting bike which he bought new 18 years ago and it's still going stlong but is worth bigger all. We don't do mountain biking.

If we had very expensive bikes we would make the garage more secure. There is no way the bikes would be kept in the house. .

3 inside the house in the utility room on a bike pole, his 'best' his 'winter' my 'nice' one, wasn't best pleased with the idea at the time but now I have to admit they don't take up hardly any space and most of what space they do take up was 'dead' space anyway.

One (mountain) chained up (with a chain I can hardly lift) in the garage to a ring in the wall. I think the pulling the ring out the wall is an easier way to nick that bike than cutting the chain.

Honesty, given the comfort it gives having them in doors is worth it for us given their price.

In the shed, but it would be hard work to get into the back garden in the first place and they are insured for forced entry.

In the garage.

Surely the solution is extra security in the garage. I would never keep a bike in the house if I had any other option. It’s not just space or aesthetics. Bringing bicycles in the house is disgusting (and yes I remove my shoes when I get home)

Trimetals bike sheds, which are bolted into our driveway. Keeping bikes in the house is very stressful!

No, failing to clean a bicycle properly after you have ridden it is disgusting. A correctly cleaned and degreased bike won't bring anything nasty into the house. And not all bikes are ridden outside anyway.