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?
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.
Yeah, that sounds nice, I’m rented so I can’t make permanent modifications. We’re on a town home (4 unit building with separate flats top and bottom) and this area isn’t great so I can’t keep it outside.
Already had my last bike stolen that way (2018 Fuji)
Before when I lived in the bottom flat I used the staircase to store it and that protected it from the elements, and passerby couldn’t see it.
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Do you have any pics of your storage nook?
It is too narrow to make an overall photo. it looks like
|----| | G | --O--| | N | --M------|O – door to the staircase, N – neighbour flat door, M – my flat door. G – unworking garbage shute.
Well, it is not '90s anymore, so pseudographics doesn’t work :)
I get the picture, yeah that looks very tight
… hey, as long as it don’t bother your neighbor, that’s a good spot.
It is tight. But it is nice to have some “almost safe” place. Neighbour is adequate and stores his stuff there too. But that’s my flat and I live there for more than 20 years there. So no problems with a neigbour whatsoever.
In your case… have you considered to nail a rode in the wall and hang the bike in the corridor? It might make things more spatial. Plus less dirt in the winter if you have winter.
I thought about it, but not allowed to put holes in the wall or I would lose my deposit.
I got this entryway desk idea from Pinterest, I was going for something like this
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/5-practical-bicycle-storage-ideas-for-your-home--774124927286763/
Looks cool. I live in a much less picturesque place. Typical eastern-European Soviet 9-floor building.