Bike Tools, How much is tolerable in the house?

[Sleeping Menace]

Does the term OCD mean anything to you?

Oxford Chaotic Dynamics? I don't see the correlation..


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[biggs682]

only allowed in garage so you are lucky

 

[Night Train]

My hot glue gun has been living on the cooker for the past week, seems a good a place as any for it. There is also at least one screwdriver in the bathroom.

 

[Sleeping Menace]

My hot glue gun has been living on the cooker for the past week, seems a good a place as any for it. There is also at least one screwdriver in the bathroom.

I think one must agree that a hot-glue gun on the cooker and the screwdriver in the bathroom must be viewed as interior design fashion accessories

I had a pair of Sun E450 Server cabinets as end tables with my old couch.. the colour scheme of them actually matched the room they were in...

Pic of an E450...


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[guitarpete247]

My tookits are in the garage as it always took ages digging them out from the back of the kitchen, under stairs, cupboard. In the garage I know where they are and can get to them easier. GF's son (who lives with us) is always complaining that he has to go outside if he needs anything. I don't mind him complaining as it stops him borrowing things. They usually end up at his girlfriends house for several months or live in his car until I go out to get them .
The only tools still in kitchen cupboard are my 2 electric drills as don't use them that often.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Oxford Chaotic Dynamics? I don't see the correlation..


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I guess if you have to explain the humour it ... oh, well Snorri at least got-it.

I'm inferring that if you regularly need taps and dies for bike fettling and that many tools, maybe you're taking it all a bit too, well seriously, I mean Obsession-compulsion-seriously

I've been fettling bikes and bits for 30 years and never needed a tap and die set handy in the kitchen, or in the garage for that matter. I can't recall having to chase-out a thread of any componant I've purchased or fitted, and my bikes seem to function perfectly well, they're not super-stressed F1 cars, they're just bikes!

 

[Sleeping Menace]

I guess if you have to explain the humour it ... oh, well Snorri at least got-it.

I'm inferring that if you regularly need taps and dies for bike fettling and that many tools, maybe you're taking it all a bit too, well seriously, I mean Obsession-compulsion-seriously

I've been fettling bikes and bits for 30 years and never needed a tap and die set handy in the kitchen, or in the garage for that matter. I can't recall having to chase-out a thread of any componant I've purchased or fitted, and my bikes seem to function perfectly well, they're not super-stressed F1 cars, they're just bikes!

Hmm .. ok.. I'm somewhat more familiar with Oxford chaotic dynamics than obsessive compulsive conditions.

I'm not sure what to say. I'd not viewed it as an obsessive behaviour, I rather like to think that I'd viewed it as the right way to do things : Check, double check, take nothing for granted...etc. I'll concede that you're right regarding cycles, they're not F1 cars, but too I think it's fair to say that the type of freeride/DH riding I did for the 15 years prior to getting into road bikes, necessitated that one did anything possible to avoid a component coming loose or failing, or the injuries were quite severe. I suppose I tend to error on the side of caution regarding equipment setup and equipment failures. . and I AM a bit of a perfectionist as to how the bike is setup / performs.. yes.

I just ran your ..theory.. if you will, by those with whom I share a house.. and they're well on your side. I was referred to as an 'autistic nut-head' .. -- you can feel the love eh?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Its not the tools her indoors gives me grief about, its the bike in the back of the through lounge that attracts the flack, I keep the bike I'm using in the house, the others stay in the shed. I have a large canvas bag under the stairs that's full of tools, the othe tool boxes live in the shed. I'm replacing the bag with one of these http://www.machinema...olling-workshop shortly, I can never find anything in the bag when I want it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hmm .. ok.. I'm somewhat more familiar with Oxford chaotic dynamics than obsessive compulsive conditions.

I'm not sure what to say. I'd not viewed it as an obsessive behaviour, I rather like to think that I'd viewed it as the right way to do things : and I AM a bit of a perfectionist as to how the bike is setup / performs.. yes.

I just ran your ..theory.. if you will, by those with whom I share a house.. and they're well on your side. I was referred to as an 'autistic nut-head' .. -- you can feel the love eh?

OK, I googled Oxford Chaotic Dymnamics and whilst I have a feeble grasp on Chaos theaory, that's waaay beyond me!
I guess there's nothing wrong with being a perfectionist or doing everything exactly, perfectly pedanticaly right, until it impacts upon your relationships with other things, maybe in this case, your housemates by your having to have a full engineering kit in the kitchen for a simple bicycle. As you can see, others of the cycling fraternity (we're the ones on your side ) seem to agree that there maybe a degree of overkill here.

Is there somewhere else you can store the majority and just keep the few essentials handy? This seems the model that most of us use? The modern bike requires not much more than a shoe-box of tools for about 95% of the tasks required.
Do you have a garage or your own room to keep the vast majority that are not needed on a regular basis?
A good relationship with housemates can be pretty important.

 

[Sleeping Menace]

OK, I googled Oxford Chaotic Dymnamics and whilst I have a feeble grasp on Chaos theaory, that's waaay beyond me!
I guess there's nothing wrong with being a perfectionist or doing everything exactly, perfectly pedanticaly right, until it impacts upon your relationships with other things, maybe in this case, your housemates by your having to have a full engineering kit in the kitchen for a simple bicycle. As you can see, others of the cycling fraternity (we're the ones on your side ) seem to agree that there maybe a degree of overkill here.

Is there somewhere else you can store the majority and just keep the few essentials handy? This seems the model that most of us use? The modern bike requires not much more than a shoe-box of tools for about 95% of the tasks required.
Do you have a garage or your own room to keep the vast majority that are not needed on a regular basis?
A good relationship with housemates can be pretty important.

Unfortunately there's not many options for toolbox location. Sold off the ground floor to a couple about 10 years ago who made a flat of it and live there now, with the ground floor went the garden. Having the first and second floor as living space means that the bikes and tools all live indoors. The only space I have which is more... mine ..than general living space is the computer room on the 2nd floor, but with the rack and all the hardware,(a picture of which is in the 'room temperature' thread) there's quite enough weight in there already and I'd not dare to add the weight of the toolbox to what's there. I think for the moment, the toolbox will have to stay in the kitchen though the suggestion was made that perhaps I could build a bit of a nicely finished wood cabinet around it, so that it more resembled a piece of furniture and less a toolbox. .


With the vast majority of those in a cycling centric chat who have sounded off about the toolbox, thinking it really doesn't go well in the kitchen, perhaps I do need a rethink.

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[snorri]

perhaps I do need a rethink.

Good luck with that SM, but it sounds a little like getting a quart in to pint pot.

 

[Speicher]

I would prefer Sleeping Menace's boxes in the corner of my kitchen*, out of the way and looking tidy. Rather than the clutter on the windowsill at Fab Foodie's.

FF how do you open or close the curtains or blind, or enjoy the view (of your garden) from that window?


* Not literally in my kitchen, for you, that would be inconvenient, to say the least.

 

[Sleeping Menace]

I would prefer Sleeping Menace's boxes in the corner of my kitchen*, out of the way and looking tidy. Rather than the clutter on the windowsill at Fab Foodie's.

FF how do you open or close the curtains or blind, or enjoy the view (of your garden) from that window?


* Not literally in my kitchen, for you, that would be inconvenient, to say the least. *

Thanks!! you've made my day


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[Kirstie]

I'm a bit late to this thread, and i was going to say 'in our house the tools generally gravitate towards the garage, but we've got a special box in the kitchen for those that keep migrating in....'

...that was until i saw fab foodie's infamous window cill...

VASELINE **AND** A TENNIS BALL?!?!?!?

Care to explain, FF?

 

[summerdays]

Our house is completely chaotic so there is a tool set by the back door tucked into a small gap, and then a bucket of various bikey things - tools, lights, nuts, puncture repair kits etc just in the porch. Then allen keys etc in bags and occasionally on other surfaces...