Where do you keep your bike?

[luvmyguys]

Thread jack: did you get the Ruby Apex?

Yep! In teal! Should be in this week!

Back on topic.

I put my bikes in my bike room. It used to be the master bedroom, once-upon-a-time.

But now I must have a little house just for my bikes! Well, wouldn't even put the newest bike there.

That was the whole reason I asked. I'm thinking . . . gorgeous new bike - should I really put it in the garage? Well, I at least want a place to put it if I can't keep it in the house - you know, if we have friends or family over.

[eofelis]

I have 7 bikes. My bf has 7 bikes.

Sooo....

We have a large apt with 2 living rooms. The front living room is really a terrible living room. It's cold in the winter and hot in the summer in there. I don't know what we would do with it if we didn't have 12 bikes to store in there: road bikes and commuter bikes. We also have a walk out basement that the boy has made into his own personal bike shop (with a shop quality repair stand - gear swap score). 2 mtn bikes are stored in a room off the bike shop.

[gocard]

In a separate little building that is really a gardening shed, except that it matches my house. I guess the person that built this house was into gardening, but the first thing we said we said when we saw the house was, "Oh look, a little house for our bikes!" Right now, there's just 4 in there, but at one time there were 7 or 8. In the dead of winter, my Kuota comes into the house and goes up in our loft, on the trainer. If it's nice enough to ride outside, I ride my Guru, with wider tires.

Sounds perfect! Something for everyone in the family. Bikes too! Mine is in the garage right now. I'm thinking about taking apart my rusty old mtn bike and replacing some parts but the parts might be more expensive than the bike itself at this point! It's been very trusty in the past.

[hebe]

We have a two car garage with all the family bikes in, the cars are on the drive.

[shootingstar]

Storage lockers and communal caged bike locker

[Irulan]

We just added on to our garage and it will have a dedicated bike area for 8 bikes.

[goldfinch]

When motorhoming, the road bike is broken down and put in a compartment. Pita. The hybrid sits outside with a bag over the seat. Wish I had a better system. Probably eight months a year this is the routine. Sometimes I am lazy and leave the road bike outside, which isn't a great idea.

In summer when we are at home base for a month or so the road bike sits in the spare bedroom and other bikes in the "shop" part of the garage.

In shoulder seasons bikes are in the garage of our condo.

[Giulianna23]

There is a total of 5 bikes in my home + my girlfriend is getting a new Hybrid in a few weeks. I keep me Roadie in my room ...the commuter by the patio door in a corner and the other 3 in a deposit/storage room by the kitchen big enough for the 3. There is an extra room upstair that I keep for when my Mother comes visit... She is not coming anytime soon so I was thinking on putting the roadie and the hybrid and all the accesories ...helmets ,bags ,hydration packs etc etc in that room , planning on gettin a trainer as well for the winter . Not sure yet though.

[Catrin]

Both of my bikes live in my bedroom, though if I am planning on a ride the next day I will often bring out the appropriate bike to the living room where there is better light to air the tires and so forth. It also makes me smile to see either of them in my living room ready to go, quite enticing I do have a trainer for the winter and that will be set up in the living room.

[limewave]

Hanging in the basement or in my car. Although we do keep bikes in the garage too.

[zoom-zoom]

MTBs and CX bikes live in the garage exclusively. Road bikes Summer in the garage, but during the Winter months come to live in the living room...we push the sofa back to make room in our small living room for 2-3 bikes on trainers (so we can do Sufferfest workouts or bike while watching movies).

[Norse]

Both of my road bikes are in the basement. The hybrid is hung up in the storage room off the garage and the hauler is on the storage room floor. DP's bike is in the garage where we also fit both of our cars, and a snow blower.

[azfiddle]

My Ruby and my husband's commuter and recreational road bikes (both about 1993 era) live in the storage /laundry room by side door entry from the carport. DH's Trek Navigator (alternate commuter- aka "The Elk") hangs locked on the front porch. My son's unused bike is locked to the security bars in the back and there are a couple of other bikes (my mixte and an old Miyata in a storage shed in the back. There might be some more bikes back there too.

[Melalvai]

My bike also comes inside in the winter but not because she's put away for the season, or is hanging out on the trainer. Starting out warm gives me a few extra minutes before the brake cables freeze over in the morning.

[Chile Pepper]

In the living room. The kids' bikes are under the stairs. The retired bikes are down in the wine cellar.