Bike storage puzzle, what to do................

[midlife]

Does the game of Tetris in the garage include the 3rd dimension, or are all the bikes currently on the floor?
I freed up some space for N+several with some plastic-coated hooks from the local ironmonger's, and use them to hang some bikes at the back of the garage.
Just a thought, and would prevent N-1!
What the photo doesn't show, is there are 3 more bikes on the floor under these 4.



Edit: yes, just seen the cause of the problem while cross-posting... park the car outside!

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Cream and chrome are such a classy combo, just out of curiosity what is it?

Shaun

 

[Specialeyes]

Cream and chrome are such a classy combo, just out of curiosity what is it?

Shaun

Thanks!

That's a Pinarello Veneto - the 2013 version, which my daughter sometimes lets me use these days.

 

[midlife]

Just had to have a google .....

Nice

Shaun

 

[vickster]

Asgard

 

[GGJ]

Now there's a first... a car parked in a garage when there's a perfectly good road to leave it on which would free up plenty of valuable space for N+1 purchases

 

[PeteXXX]

Extend upwards and install a bike lift.
Shouldn't cost too much

 

[iateyoubutler]

Now there's a first... a car parked in a garage when there's a perfectly good road to leave it on which would free up plenty of valuable space for N+1 purchases

But I don`t wish to leave it out in the road

 

[Welsh wheels]

My brain is hurting on this one!

I came home on Thursday with my shiny new n+1 But, there lies a problem, I don`t know where the hell to keep it

My garage is out of the question as I have 7 bikes in there already and it all fits together like a game of tetris, this leaves only 2 options, first is have it inside the front door which isn`t ideal and as it`s a commuting bike I`m not happy about bringing it in from the pouring rain onto the carpet, second option is to use the "porch" on the back of the house (it`s built like a conservatory but is too small to be called a conservatory, more a brick/glass porch). Only problem there is it`s really on show. Ok, nobody ever goes around the back of my house but I can`t help thinking that it`s an open invite to any passing house burglar.

I bought a bike cover this morning which is going straight back to the shop - it`s too much of a faf, and is a bloody eyesore. Anybody think I`m being to paranoid by trying to hide it?

I don`t know what to do. Anybody been in a similar situation got any bright ideas? As a very last resort I may have to shoehorn it into the garage (god knows how), but that will be a nightmare.................

Pick the least valuable and least liked out of the 7 bikes in the garage and put that one in the porch, and then the new bike can go in the garage.

 

[fossyant]

Car on the drive!

 

[cubey]

Hang a couple of the bikes on the wall in the lounge, modern art...................

 

[Specialeyes]

Ooh, ooh... buy an estate car and keep a bike or two in the car in the garage.

 

[KnackeredBike]

Get a bigger house.

 

[iateyoubutler]

Get a bigger house.

Ha, that`s on the cards but am tied to my mortgage for the next 4 years. Am fancying a nice bungalow with a bloody great loft space, and the room to have a double garage. Right now neither is possible, and my current house is a dormer house so the loft space is the size of a matchbox, and I can`t extend my garage as the ground slopes away quite steeply from it, so that`s not an option either...

A basement/cellar too would really be magic!!

 

[400bhp]

Move least used bike from garage into the house and hang it in the wall. Put commuter in the garage.

 

[gavroche]

How about a shed in the back garden, dedicated to bike storage?