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Apartment dweller here, I can't store it outside and I don't have a garage, I was getting tired of just having it in the living room so I came up with this slightly better idea.

Anyone have any nice setups for keeping your bikes in your living spaces?

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[–] teft@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Leaning against my living room wall where I can see and admire her whenever I like.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] teft@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ignore the mud. She had a rough day at the jump track yesterday.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

She's the best. Goes down and up any trail I can find. She'll jump 8 meters (more if she had a better rider than me) without complaining a bit.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Making me put the gravel tires back on mine XD

I wish I had some nice mountain trails around me but unfortunately I live in one of the flattest places on earth

How do you clean her? any recommendations for the gear train?

[–] snklr@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Flattest places on earth? Denmark?

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] snklr@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago
[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I just spray her down with water and then scrub with dish soap and water. Just make sure you scrub the drive train after the discs so you don't fuck your brake pads with grease residue. But most of the time I just leave her dirty because I ride most days and it gets old cleaning mud off her. I call it structural mud with my friends. If she sounds rough or the mud starts falling off in chunks I'll give her a quick wash.

[–] LukaszH@szmer.info 4 points 4 days ago

Mounted on the wall

[–] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

In the covered bicycle parking that my apartment building provides.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The downhill bike i don't ride anymore hangs on my living room wall, the enduro i still ride is in my basement on the bike repair stand or whatever you call it. Ebike hangs on another wall and my bmx just does whatever

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

😂🤣 Typical BMX

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It goes in the bike pile in the basement with all the other bikes, obviously.

Or my car, but it can only fit one bike

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Folded up in my car, I always have it with me.

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

On a trainer for the rainy days

[–] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Awhile back I saw a system where you would hang your bike on the wall using 2 hooks under the top bar. But the hooks have to be long enough so that the wheels don't touch the wall, or you'll get black stains from the tyres.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Pupper mentioned, now we require the photographic tax!

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the shipping container outside. I think the tyres perished. Got a dog that needs to be with me all the time and can't run fast, so I'm stuck walking instead. I did buy a child trailer thing but couldn't seem to mount it on the rear wheel quick release hoohaa.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking of getting a shipping container, how do you like yours as a bike shed?

It's good and cheap, but they get quite hot inside when in sunlight. Some people add ventilation panels / spinning roof vents to help.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Not a small space back then, but mine used to sit in the living room, until winter came and the melting snow would drip on the hardwood and the carbide studs would scatch the floor. So then my wife asked if I would mind bringing it down to the basement, which was reasonable. Now we are in a small condo, with no space for the bike, so it is chained to your parking stall pillar, and then extra llocks and chains through the wheels and frame.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One in my cold shed, my main one in my heated tool shed and the third one in the attic space of that same shed waiting for frame repair.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

🥲 That sounds nice

[–] username_1@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Depends. Depends on the layout of the floors. For example, in my case we have 4 flats on a floor, symmetrical 2 flats around the staircase. From my side (we have a lift and project had a garbage shute that never worked) the corridor is rather long so we build a wall with a door. In result I have a small area shared with a neigbour flat where I store... things. But it is MY flat, so I can build things if I need.

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[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I had one of those in my balcony once ... unfortunately on a standard 8 feet apartment, even when you lift it all the way up, the bike still gets in the way

[–] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

I just put it on the ground floor of my apartment building, next to the entrance to the basement

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have 2 bikes and I live in an apartment. They come inside the apartment and live right by the front door against the wall.

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Same as me, I guess

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

All over the garage where my car is supposed to be parked.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

If you're cold, they're cold.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago

I just store mine behind the front door. It really doesn't get in the way!

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Smart! Easy access but not in the way

In my outside closet because I haven't used it in 10 years. Maybe I will use it soon. When I get any sorta income

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Sitting in whichever space I can fit it, usually tangled up with my wife's bike.

Space isn't abundant where we are and they're bulky.

But hey, weather is off-and-on good enough to ride, so we get to use them plenty.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

In the laundry room inside the unit.

That's a pretty good way to save the usability of the footprint btw. Might use it if I have to free up the laundry.

[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

We live in a flat, but don't really have any special storage solution. Just bike stands to keep the wheels from marking the floor and the brake levers from scuffing up the walls. Two gravel bikes in the dining room (one is my wife's) and a road bike in a corner of the bedroom. In the winter the road bike goes on the turbo trainer in the same place.

We'll probably end up moving at least the gravel bikes to our cellar though, since we'll be needing extra space soon. Hopefully the road bike can stay upstairs though where I can admire it.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 5 days ago

Folded up (it's a Brompton) in the entrance's dresser

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have fairly deep wall-mounted shelves on a wall starting a little over waist high. I can fit a bike or two in the space under those shelves without really taking up extra floor space

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nice that sounds kind of like what I wanted to do, can we see?

Well, my bike is currently on the healing bench, and I dont have a pic, but it essentially is like what you are already doing. Just instead of a table top like you have, it's a shelf, and there's more shelves above that one.

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