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Danny Colyer

Naqerj wrote:
> I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

I have 4 bikes, 5 unicycles and a variety of bike bits stored in what my
Mum insists on calling my dining room, but it's actually my workshop.

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JLB

Naqerj wrote:

I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

The bike getting most use is in the hall, as is the Brompton. But the
thing that people comment about is that I've a road bike and a tourer
both suspended from the ceiling in the big, otherwise empty and wasted,
space over the stairs.

I bought two pairs (one pair for each bike) of spare screw-in fittings
for a clothes pulley (clothes drier / rack you might call the thing).
Fixed them in the ceiling, ran ropes through and tied simple hooks on
the ends. Hook the handlebars on one hook, the arse end of the saddle to
another and just hoist the whole bike out of the way. Tie off the rope
on a cleat screwed to the wall.

--
Joe * If I cannot be free I'll be cheap

Simon Brooke

in message <maipq0p0hhr61dfa463426ek873i99fg1s@4ax.com>, Naqerj
('andrew@pattle.globalnet.co.invalid') wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:26:06 -0000, "Mark"
> <mark.harris.nospam@ukonline.co.uk.nospam> wrote:
>
>>> Indeed. It's also an unnecessary luxury, most houses already come
>>> with ample built in bicycle storage, it's called the front room.
>>
>>Or, in my case, "the dining room".
>
> I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

Dining room, six bikes.

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Just zis Guy, you know?

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:11:34 -0000, "Tony W"
<tonyremove@chapmore.co.uk> wrote in message
<31463aF35s0dbU1@individual.net>:

>> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
>> house?

>Where else would one store a good bike? The cheap ones go in the shed.

Keep bikes in the main rooms of the house? Peasants! Don't these
people /have/ kitchens?

Guy
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Mark McN

Response to Naqerj:
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?
>

Front room: one bike, one trike. The hybrid is sulking in the cellar.

--
Mark, UK.
We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him squeak,
We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

JohnB

Naqerj wrote:

> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

Hall always has one bike plus the Brommie by the front door.
Sitting room often has two bikes.

John B

Velvet

Naqerj wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:26:06 -0000, "Mark"
> <mark.harris.nospam@ukonline.co.uk.nospam> wrote:
>
>
>>>Indeed. It's also an unnecessary luxury, most houses already come with
>>>ample built in bicycle storage, it's called the front room.
>>
>>Or, in my case, "the dining room".
>
>
> I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?
>
>
Since I'm lacking a garage or shed, mine lives (either clamped or just
resting) in the turbo in my bedroom...

--


Velvet

Jon Senior

Naqerj andrew@pattle.globalnet.co.invalid opined the following...
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

The Giant hangs on the wall of my bedroom. The fixer or recumbent sits
in the "hall"[1] (depending on which one I brought home) and the other
lives at work. If I lose my job I'm screwed!

Jon

[1] "Hall" is quoted since while it is technically a hall, it's not
really large enough to qualify as one.

Jon Senior

Ian Smith ian@astounding.org.uk opined the following...
> No, no, no, if you're going to fall out of a trike, do it with
> gumption while trying a hand-brake turn. You can flip the whole
> thing and go rolling down the road. No 'dropping' and certainly no
> 'vaguely upright'.

I was trying a hand-brake turn (Rear wheel brake on a little KMX) but
thankfully at relatively low speed as it was on the pavement (Shock!)
outside Kinetics.

> But despite the high speed, spectacular nature of my parting company
> from teh vehicle, and teh clipless pedals, nothing got very much hurt.
> A bruise that was slightly tender for a few days. I think the fact
> that you start out near where you end up helps, at least with respect
> to falling (or being ejected) from a recumbent trike.

I found sitting to be a painful activity for a couple of weeks, but seem
to have recovered ultimately.

Jon

Call me Bob

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:45:43 +0000, Naqerj
<andrew@pattle.globalnet.co.invalid> wrote:


>I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
>So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
>house?

Three bikes in the front room (plus a mountain of tools). Two frames
and a spare set of wheels in the back bedroom.

Obviously, marriage is not ever going to be a possibility.


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Clive George

"Call me Bob" <usenetCOFFEE@toomanypenguins.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:45:43 +0000, Naqerj
> <andrew@pattle.globalnet.co.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> >I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
> >
> >So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> >house?
>
> Three bikes in the front room (plus a mountain of tools). Two frames
> and a spare set of wheels in the back bedroom.
>
> Obviously, marriage is not ever going to be a possibility.

The only difference for a married couple is the significant increase in
number of tandems in the front room (or kitchen).

cheers,
clive

Carol Hague

Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:11:34 -0000, "Tony W"
> <tonyremove@chapmore.co.uk> wrote in message
> <31463aF35s0dbU1@individual.net>:
>
> >> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> >> house?
>
> >Where else would one store a good bike? The cheap ones go in the shed.
>
> Keep bikes in the main rooms of the house? Peasants! Don't these
> people /have/ kitchens?

We do indeed have a kitchen, but you'd be hard put to fit a bike in it
and still actually be able to cook anything without doing yourself a
mischief.

Currently there are two complete trikes in our living room and a frame
in the process of being built up. Which is actually an improvement....


--
Carol
"I was just being a little teapot. It's a bad habit of mine"
- Wyvern, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

Dave Larrington

Naqerj wrote:

> I've got a bike temporarily stored [1] in the dining room.
>
> So, how many others are there who keep bikes in the main rooms of the
> house?

Cosimo the Stealth Baron lives in the conservatory while the Trice is
currently resident in the kitchen as some tinkering was required at the
weekend and I couldn't be arsed to put it back in The Shedde.

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Cheers mate!

~PB