Storing a mountain bike outside in rainy climate



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Thomas Richards

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I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.

I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
sorted.

I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
one of these bags to any success?


Thanks
Tom
 
Thomas Richards wrote:
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tom

Is there anywhere in the garden that you could make a lean-to shelter for
the bike? Would just require a few lengths of timber and some of that
corrugated PVC roof sheet. If you are hoping for security too, get a very
heavy chain from a builders merchant and set one end of it in a good depth
of concrete in the ground, and use a heavy lock to secure the bike to the
chain. Let your wife know that 'most bikers get to keep theirs indoors',
then any outdoor solutions you choose will seem like a good idea to her...

Let us know what you decide upon.

--
Mark
 
Thomas Richards wrote:
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?

Just do what I do, and stick it in the corner of the bedroom ;).
 
Thomas Richards wrote:

> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
>
Leave the wife outside!
--
Slacker
 
.....................put the wife in a bag instead?


"Thomas Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tom
 
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:47:56 -0700, Thomas Richards wrote:

> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?

Your bike will get nicked if you leave it outside. Try and find a solution
with the missus whereby it gets to stay in the bedroom, where it belongs :)
 
"Thomas Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tom

Seriously, the wife is the problem here. Get a workstand, put it in the
corner, and keep the bike there. Get hooks and put it on the ceiling. If
there is a couch or something big up against a wall, slide it out 6 inches
and slide the bike in there.

If she can't give you a couple square feet for something you care about, she
doesn't care about you.

Real bikes are complex machines that, though designed for periodic abuse,
cannot withstand sustained neglect. If you leave it outside, it will get
crappy.

Chris
 
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:48:00 +0200, bomba wrote:

> Your bike will get nicked if you leave it outside. Try and find a solution
> with the missus whereby it gets to stay in the bedroom, where it belongs :)

Awhile back, a fellow wrote about how he built a wooden cabinet that goes
behind the sofa; from the sofa it looks like a table (and is probably a
handy place to set drinks and such), but from the side there was a door to
slide the bike into. That'd be my recommendation.

--
-BB-
To reply to me, drop the attitude (from my e-mail address, at least)
 
Chris wrote:
> "Thomas Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
>> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>>
>> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife
>> is considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't
>> get it sorted.
>>
>> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
>> one of these bags to any success?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tom
>
> Seriously, the wife is the problem here. Get a workstand, put it in
> the corner, and keep the bike there. Get hooks and put it on the
> ceiling. If there is a couch or something big up against a wall,
> slide it out 6 inches and slide the bike in there.
>
> If she can't give you a couple square feet for something you care
> about, she doesn't care about you.
>
> Real bikes are complex machines that, though designed for periodic
> abuse, cannot withstand sustained neglect. If you leave it outside,
> it will get crappy.
>
> Chris

I was going to suggest an arty looking wall rack, but yah, what he said.

penny
 
Doki wrote:
> Just do what I do, and stick it in the corner of the bedroom ;).

Yeah, with her out of the way there is plenty of room on the bed for the
bike....
--
Westie
(Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)
 
Chris wrote:
> Real bikes are complex machines that, though designed for periodic
> abuse, cannot withstand sustained neglect.

What a great line. I'm gonna have to remember that and use on the wife to
justify the next..., well, anything bike related. :)
--
Westie
(Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)
 
bomba wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:47:56 -0700, Thomas Richards wrote:
>
>
>>I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
>>of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>>
>>I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
>>considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
>>sorted.
>>
>>I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
>>one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Your bike will get nicked if you leave it outside.

The paint will get nicked by a falling branch or hail or something?

Confuded,
Greg
 
nicked is British for stolded.



"G.T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> bomba wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:47:56 -0700, Thomas Richards wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> >>of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
> >>
> >>I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> >>considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> >>sorted.
> >>
> >>I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> >>one of these bags to any success?
> >
> >
> > Your bike will get nicked if you leave it outside.
>
> The paint will get nicked by a falling branch or hail or something?
>
> Confuded,
> Greg
>
 
>>> Your bike will get nicked if you leave it outside.
>>
>> The paint will get nicked by a falling branch or hail or something?
>
> In English, 'nicked' means the same as 'half-inched'.

As in "the guy with the cool corvette was only able to nick his girlfriend"?
 
[email protected] (Thomas Richards) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
> I've been looking at bike bags, vac-bag and rome bag. Has anyone used
> one of these bags to any success?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tom

Smear it with vaseline.

..
 
"Thomas Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I need to store my aluminium mountain bike outside. I live in a part
> of the UK where it rains most of the time but rarely freezes.
>
> I need to find a low cost, low-space-using solution ASAP as my wife is
> considering leaving my bike outside for the dustmen if I don't get it
> sorted.
>
Are you happy with your wife otherwise? Because it really sounds as if she
is the problem and not your bike.
 
Got room for a long thin shed? I saw a "bike shed" at B&Q last weekend. Made
of wood and would hold 3 bikes side by side at a pinch. Can't remember how
much it was.
 
"Fred Fragger" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Got room for a long thin shed? I saw a "bike shed" at B&Q last weekend. Made
> of wood and would hold 3 bikes side by side at a pinch. Can't remember how
> much it was.

Thanks - this looks good.

To all the others who suggested getting rid of the wife: I've costed
both out and bike storage is by far the cheaper option!
 
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