Storage of Bike at work? How!

starship

I only have a 12 mile drive to work, and would cycle it, but I don't want to leave my bike OUTSIDE on a bike rack. Maybe one day we can bring in our bike and store them INSIDE away from sun, rain, and theifs.

What do you do!

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SLS

Depends on your boss & where you work - if you park it outside, remove your lights, computers, etc... Buy a decent lock & just leave it on the bike rack - one less thing to lug around. Just remember - locks are only meant to keep the honest people honest. Depending on where you live & ride you should be plenty safe in about 90% of the country. Good luck & enjoy your commute.

caligurl

my hubby is fortunate in that he took in some of those holders you screw to the wall.. and that's where he keeps his bike.. in his office.. on the wall!

tinajoy

There are a couple of us who ride to work sometimes where I work. We just park our bikes right next to our desks...........nobody has ever said a bad thing about it..we even carry them up the stairs!!

mikdes

It depends on the type and size of company for whom you work. I work for a large company in a downtown area with a parking garage. We have bike lockers. Although I haven't begun commuting yet, I plan to soon and will likely rent one. Then again, a 1988 Specialized Streetstomper probably won't get stolen now, will it?

M.A.H.

Depending upon my mood, the weather, and how much my job has sucked the life from me the day before. I either take the subway, drive, or ride my bike. The subway is four dollars per day round trip. If I drive I park in a parking lot and pay $8.00 plus a dollar tip. When I ride I lock my bike up in the same lot use a light cable lock and tip the guys a buck.

rek

We're lucky enough to have our own lockable offices etc. where we leave our bikes. (There are a reasonable number of commuter cyclists here)

Those that share an office/working space just park their bikes next to their desks. Being at a university campus, nobody's game enough to use the outside bike racks

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Shreklookalike

I'm stuck with locking mine on an outside rack. I use a U-lock, so it's fairly secure. The only problem I've had so far was a couple weeks ago some a$$hole knifed both tires.

Azulene

I ride to work almost every day. I just bring it inside my office, but I own the business. If I had employees they could do the same.

Brunswick_kate

I lock it to the bike rack outside my office. I feel very secure with it there but then it might have something to do with the fact that my office is the police dept headquarters.

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Randybaker99

I work at a big company and I this spring I just started wheeling my bike into my office - I just acted like it was no big deal and so far no one has said anything negative. At first when it was a novelty, everybody had a lot of questions (how far, how much $, etc) now it hardly gets a mention.

The three things I am careful about -

1) I keep the bike very clean, almost spotless, if the roads were wet that morning, I do a quick cleanup of the frame with Windex, so people don't have to look at road grunge when they are sitting in the office or walking by the window

2) I have a cool little stand that I got at nashbar (called "Stand By Me" http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?...reid=&pagename=) so it isn't falling over or in the way and

3) I am very careful not to ding the doorways and walls when I am wheeling the bike in and out - the Corp Real Estate guys would have a nutty over that. So far so good!

My advice if there isn't a specific ban on bikes in your office, is be bold and try showing up with a small bike stand one day then add a bike the next day, but also be respectful of other people who may not think of a bike as the work of art that we all know it is

jumbolugs

My bike lives under my desk next to my legs (it's a Brompton)

centralmail

I am a high school teacher, in a pretty good school with pretty nice kids.

I leave my bike in the staff corridor outside the staffroom. Kids can access it, but they would be taking the massive risk of expulsion from school if they were to attempt to take it. So far so good, the only thing that has happened so far is that my bike pump was removed (probably by some kid who I told off for not doing his homework!).

steve_wmn

I work at a very large (2 million sq. ft) defense contractor's plant. Just outside the security fence and within sight of the guards there is a bike rack that most of the bike commuters lock their bikes to. Curiously, there is one VIP bike commuter that gets to park his bike in the VIP parking lot inside the security fence, but still outside the plant.

Even more curiously, there are dozens of clunky bikes inside the building used for transportation inside the building. Some are purpose built workmans bikes/trikes designed for large manufacturing facilities but there is also a large, ransom assortment of junk bikes that the cleaning crew uses that looks like it was acquired at garage sales.

With all this, you'd think it'd make sense to allow folks to bring their commuter bikes indoors and park them in some of the million or so sq. ft. of unused space. But no, that's against the rules.