Trail Child
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Ottawa, Canada
As I've said before and I'll say again - in this household, the dining room is for bikes! 
why houses have hallways
- Thread starter BigonaBianchi
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T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
We actually got rid of some furniture to accommodate bikesAs I've said before and I'll say again - in this household, the dining room is for bikes!
The dust-covered GIANT isn't mine 
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
[QUOTE 2346044, member: 259"]Wimps. In Belgium, they put the car in. 
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Paging Night Train. Night Train to the slightly oily courtesy phone please!
Go on, post a link to that video I took last week....
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Paging Night Train. Night Train to the slightly oily courtesy phone please!
Go on, post a link to that video I took last week....
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
FTFYThere you go again, ruining beautiful photographs with an intrusivebikeshallway!
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Puzzled as to how this is worse?could b worse
picture off internet but i bought a chainring off a fairly young hipster type last week and his flat was like this (albeit fixed gear bikes lol
I would find either picture worse if there weren't bikes in the pic...
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
we can fit all family members bikes in the hall ( well one each ) but then its a bit tight for space. and the walls are marked badly but nothing a damp sponge doesn't sort
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Only one bike in our hall I'm afraid. There are loads of scuffs on the wall due to the bars, and the general mank on the back of the front door is where Bertie used to unleash his ferocious savagery on the post. We put down a seven foot run of door matting for the bike to sit on.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
When I visit at least two different friends houses ... (just thought of another), I take my bike into their hallways. I have put mine in the hall temporarily but it is too narrow so I keep bumping into it so it is never for long.
. I have put mine in the hall temporarily but it is too narrow so I keep bumping into it so it is never for long.
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My hall isn't long enough to accommodate any bikes, my fixed is in the back of the dinning area and the rest are in the shed.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
- Location
- Farnborough, Hampshire
Does anyone else watch Grand Designs and start imagining how bikes/bike workshop would fit in? Especially some of these huge open plan designs.
e-rider
Banned member
- Location
- South West
no hallway in my house. I did once rent a house with a small hallway, and it was perfect for my two bikes at the time
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Yes.
I occasionally see those huge blue corrugated metal warehouse sheds in the middle of the countryside and imaging converting one of those as industrial building preservation.
I would cut in some windows and then line the whole interior with straw bales for insulation. The interior space would then provide a huge workshop on the ground floor with living space above in the roof line. The living space would be little more then a 2 bed flat but the workshop space would have a metal workshop, a wood workshop, an office, a design studio, a large open plan setting out space and garage parking for powered vehicles, bikes, and trailers.
I also think of all those long expired petrol stations/garages in rural areas in the same way. The fuel tanks would need to be dug out for safety and that would provide a huge hole in the ground for a basement workshop space, accessed by a long ramp or a vehicle lift. The shop part of the garage would be accommodation as a 2 bed bungalow while the rear forecourt (rearcourt?) area would be great 'shed' space for vehicles, bikes, trailers, etc. and the front forecourt area would be a pretty veg garden.
In my house I already have a ground floor wood workshop, a basement metal workshop, an office/design studio, and a second design studio (for Arch) in progress. When my parents pass away, I will convert their granny flat and the rest of the basement into more workshop space. I may be too old to make use of the space by then though.
