Storing in flats

Hi,

I have a 2 bed flat and my 2nd room is a bike park. Do you have any recommendations on what kit and tips on storing 4 bikes, 1 fixed, 2 road and a TT bike? I desperately need to store them as 2 of them don't get tons of use.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread18647.html

There's another thread somewhere with racks, carousels, hooks etc

Should give you some ideas...

halfords do a pretty decent wall mounted hanger.£15 quid i think

halfords do a pretty decent wall mounted hanger.£15 quid i think

Which can take two bikes each, stored high off the ground. Bought some from coppiThat. Great solution.

Lean bikes against wall. £0. Job done.

Lean bikes against wall. £0. Job done.

^great "how to never get laid" example there mate

Really.. tell that to my girlfriend who lives with me.. one of those bikes is hers.

jv = lover fail.

He's got a point.

One of my girls' bikes is in our bedroom too. Mine are relegated to the hall and balcony.

Buy a house with a dungeon/basement like Fiddy

^ Fritzl?

If you have tall walls you can hook em on there. But there is only really a point if they are pretty high, otherwise they might aswell be on the floor.

You can also get pulley systems to winch them onto the ceiling, LIDL sell them occasionally.

halfords do a pretty decent wall mounted hanger.£15 quid i think

You only really need a big hook, you can get them for under a £5 from most hardware/plumbing shops.

As hippy said, if you can't get laid with a bike in your bedroom, it's not the fault of the bike.

Having said all that, you've got a seperate bike room and four bikes and you're running out of room?! How big is this room? I've got a bike room with my four bikes, my girlfriends 3, a tag along, kids bike and 3 frames in boxes and a pc... no bike storage required...

Both my bikes and my girlfriends bikes live in the sitting room, lent against the bookshelves.

I've been looking at storage stands and so on purely because my carbon road bike keeps getting other bikes lent against it, and when it gets another scratch I have to go to a quiet place and cry.

+1 for pulley systems

I just rented out the flat next door to keep my bikes in. Much neater.

I just rented out the flat next door to keep my bikes in. Much neater.

+1, i now own seven flats in my street and have never looked back. 3 don't even have bikes in.

This is quite useful if you only have one flat though: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Topeak_Dual_Touch_Bike_Stand/5360006679/

Buy a house with a dungeon/basement like Fiddy

^ Fritzl?

If you have tall walls you can hook em on there.
You can also get pulley systems to winch them onto the ceiling,

You only really need a big hook, you can get them for under a £5 from most hardware/plumbing shops.

and when it gets another scratch I have to go to a quiet place and cry.

Uh?

Uh?

You get my vote for post of the day!

Sadly I have no wall space suitable to mount a hanger upon, and the bike tower type things have been deemed "tipping hazards" by the landlord.

Some sort of cunning pulley system mounted over the mezzanine would be my first choice, but that idea has also been disallowed due to the prospect of being killed whilst eating cornflakes by a falling bicycle.

^great "how to never get laid" example there mate

I have a MOTOR-cycle in the bedroom, beat that suckas....

errr.....and 5 bikes. (these are rather less popular with Mrs Jung)

I store 86 planets and stars of varying size, 13 galaxies and 3 universes in my loft conversion.

Something about the word universes perplexes me

@Hippy

Is that a GT Timberline? I've been riding one of those about until recently. Its what my bro used to ride when he was a messenger, he must have been mad, that thing weighs a ton..

It's a GT Talera. It's not light but it's awesome.
It's a World Championship bike and has raced Cadel "Loser" Evans.

Something about the word universes perplexes me

Is a UNIverse just a shit rip-off of a galaxy?