I guess that is an advantage to having ten or eleven bikes crowding up my living room ... my dogs are all very respectful of bikes because bikes run over tails and make loud noises if you knock them over.

And after a couple of months where my husband was trying to make an old steel wheel set work and kept blowing up tubes, our dogs now run and hide if they see a bike pump. The 85-pound lab-pit mix climbs on my lap and shivers as soon as my husband takes a wheel off a bike.

We made sure to socialize them all around bikes when they were puppies. In the one spot where they are sometimes off leash and might encounter a mountain bike, they step off the path if a bike is coming. (Note that this is a spot where neither off-leash dogs nor mountain bikes are supposed to be; I am a tiny bit of a scofflaw in that regard but I would never let the dogs off leash on a designated bike path.)