Where the bikes live

[Melalvai]

Our new place has a tiny garage, which barely fits the car. The bikes are living in the shed. I'm pretty sure my cables, particularly the front derailleur cable, had picked up some rust shortly before we moved, but it's gotten dramatically worse, possibly because it's so humid. I'll replace them, but I wondered if anyone had ideas about how to store the bikes? The shed is awfully wet. It keeps actual rain out, but it is humid & smells strongly of mildew. (It's been really wet here; hard to believe some places are having a drought!)

Keeping them inside the house is not really an option. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a way to do that. I just wondered if there's any way to control humidity in the shed. The shed is all wood.

I have suggested getting rid of the car. Ha ha. I've also thought of parking the car in the drive. But I'm not sure the garage would be any better, it is also very humid. The bikes lived in the garage the other places we've lived, but this place just seems more humid, or maybe it's a particularly wet spring.

Other than this problem, I like having a little building just for the bikes!

[OakLeaf]

It might be more economical to upgrade the cables to a coated and/or shielded system like the Gore Ride-On cables, than to seal the shed?


(Anyway, house is for bicycles, garage is for motorcycles, driveway is for cars. ;))

[tulip]

Garage with dehumidifier for bikes, driveway for car.

[Grog]

Saris makes a bike rack that attaches to the ceiling with the bikes upside down. Heavy bikes would be a problem, but for lighter, nicer bikes it might be ok.

[Melalvai]

I'll look into the cables, that sounds like a solution. I'm actually in favor of keeping the car in the garage if we possibly can. We've had several hail storms in the last couple weeks. It's an old car, so we don't care about cosmetics, but hail can do more than cosmetic damage, if it gets big enough.

The shed doesn't have power, so no dehumidifier in there. I had this idea that there's some sort of rocks or something that soak up moisture and change color, and then you bake them and reuse them. But I can't find anything like that online. Did I make that up or does it exist, anyone know?

The garage is tiny in ALL dimensions so hanging the bike from the ceiling isn't an option. Besides, my bike is super heavy with that enormous basket and all my tools etc!

I'm definitely having second thoughts about getting a road bike (in addition to my commuter). The shed barely holds our 3 bikes. Granted, DH hasn't ridden his bike in >2 years, and probably wouldn't care if we got rid of it, but I still cling to the forlorn and deluded notion that one day he'll ride it again!

[TxDoc]

Garage with dehumidifier for bikes, driveway for car.

Slight modification... Garage with A/C for car and bikes and bike/car tools :D