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submitted 5 months ago by EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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 13 points 5 months ago

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

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago
[-] teft@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] teft@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

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 months ago

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?

[-] teft@piefed.social 2 points 5 months 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.

[-] snklr@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Flattest places on earth? Denmark?

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 7 points 5 months ago

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 months ago

😂🤣 Typical BMX

[-] LukaszH@szmer.info 7 points 5 months ago

Mounted on the wall

[-] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

In the covered bicycle parking that my apartment building provides.

[-] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months 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.

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I pulled a peice of furniture out from the wall and tucked it behind when I lived in an apartment.

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

On a trainer for the rainy days

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

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 months ago

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

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

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 months ago

🥲 That sounds nice

[-] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months 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 months ago

Pupper mentioned, now we require the photographic tax!

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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 months ago

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

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] horse@feddit.org 1 points 5 months 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.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months 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.

[-] thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Smart! Easy access but not in the way

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago
[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

If you're cold, they're cold.

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

Same as me, I guess

[-] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months 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

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