How/where do you store your bikes?

My bike is frequently left on the bike rack on my car. Otherwise, it stays in the garage with DH's. However, DH had to build a shed for the lawnmower, motorcycle, kayak, etc--so the kid's can stay in the house :D

In the garage. Its just me for the most part so I have half the car for my bikes, half for the car. I am compulsively neat (my dad kept the garage neat as a pin, so I do too) so it bugs me to have them leaning, but I have not gotten wall mount racks up yet.
When my SO visits with his bike, it gets to come in the house. It wears red white and blue and carries a USPS team bag, so it gets special celebrity treatment. Seriously, I "borrowed" it for his birthday to take some pics (my avatar pic is one)...and I put it in the house after and went to ride my MTB. I started thinking about halfway through my ride about whether or not I shut the garage door (and access to the house) when I left....I had to stop and call the officer on duty for the sector where my house is and have him run by and check for me! I had...

We have a really big garage. All 5 bikes (one for each of us), a freezer, gardening stuff, the *&#^* we don't know what to do with, and 2 cars easily fit there. We used to have bunny cages out there as well, but that's another story.

Deb

We have a really big garage too. We have a bit of a wheel fetish so it's a good thing!:p

We have a racecar on a trailer, two cars, ten bikes, DD's first tricycle, a folding scooter and three sets of roller blades in our garage! I think we need to have a wheel intervention!

We have a nifty rack that is modular (so grew as the number of bikes grew) and holds 6 bikes nose-in or tail-in. This holds DD's MTB, DH's comfy roadie, hard tail MTB and dually MTB, my hard tail MTB and my dually MTB.

My roadie hangs upside down from the ceiling above this rack on two hooks into a ceiling joist. The tandem hangs from the ceiling in one corner on one of those really nifty bike lift things with pulleys that you can raise and lower.

My old antique roadie lives on the magtrainer in front of the tandem.

Humblest apologies - the tenth bike (DH's head down and belt it out roadie) is currently at DH's work, hanging from the ceiling of his office on another bike lift, sadly waiting to be ridden again since he's been too busy at work lately to go for a spin at lunchtime!:(

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Originally Posted by irrealised

Question: Do those of you who keep bikes in your car have any worries about them getting damaged from the heat?

We have the front fork-lock set-up in our car and I used to keep my old bike in there all the time, but I've been reluctant to leave my new bike in the car in the summer because I'm worried that the heat will mess it up. It's a mountain bike so I guess the tires would be alright, but I haven't wanted to take the chance. Any thoughts?

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We have kept our road bikes in the car all the time for 2 years now. The heat doesn't bother them... now, leave your Chamois Butter or your sunblock in the car in the heat and it turns to soup :).

my husband had a garage built about 10 years ago and a car has been in it for less than a month of days. it is great for bikes!

In the living room on a steel rack. Mine goes on the top, BF's on the bottom. I see them as soon as I walk in the door to the apartment. :D

We are quickly multiplying our stable so it seems like bikes are everywhere in our house.

The roadies live in the guest bedroom. We don't have kids to use it and we don't have guests often.

DH's Commuter lives in the garage, as do our combined 4 mountain bikes. We had a shed built to house the camping supplies and lawn equipment so half the garage would be freed for bikes. I park my car inside but there is plenty of room for more bikes. :p

Ours currently live in the common area of our dorm room. I don't know where I'm putting mine next semester. DBF's is going in his room, but mine will be smaller than his, and I don't know where it'll be staying. Not outside and not in the bike room for the building, that's for sure.

4 bikes in around 900 sq.ft. means 1 in the living room, 1 in the bedroom, and 2 in the hallway. There are bikes everywhere.

To me, there's nothing more beautiful than a bike, so I don't mind.

The bikes share the garage with the motorbikes. Our other garage is a workshop, and the cars live outside.

At some point I will probably get some hooks etc. to hang them up and organize them a bit better.

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Originally Posted by spazzdog

Used to put my 2 babies on a floor/ceiling rack.

Donated my old TREK last year, so my SPecialized was leaned against wall in hall until recently.

Now its on the wind trainer in the living room where I sit an pedal a bit each day trying to get my butt re-accustomed to the saddle (its been a while).

Why not ride outside, you ask... I have a bad case of De Quervains in my left wrist. Can't shift, can't brake - well I can but it involves screaming and crying :( On the trainer I can sit up and not use my hands at all.

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But it's so nice to see you back here!!!

My bikes have their own room too.

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-- gnat! (And yet, I need another bike. NEED!)

I live in a 2 bedroom condo. Currently, my 2 daughters and I have 5 bikes. We have access to bike storage out back - behind our building. I store my daughters' bikes and my old Trek (which I plan on selling soon) in the storage unit but I won't store my Madones there because space is a major issue. There are way too many bikes there - crammed into a small space. For those of you who keep your bikes on a rack or stand in your home, would you please recommend the brand of rack or stand that you use? Thanks!

I store mine in the shed; the kid's outgrown bike is in the basement. I should move that to the shed, or sell it!