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Maybe I've been spoilt in our current house but we live at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, I back the car into the drive, unload the bikes into the garage. Then, at my convenience, I can take them through the door at the back of the garage, into the garden to wash them without being overlooked. I can also pop through from the kitchen to the garage through the internal door to do any fettling.
Some of the houses we've been looking at don't have internal doors to the garages bit it feels like a "must have" to me.
Interested to know how others work out the logistics with their bikes as I really like not advertising the bikes to the local scutters.
End of a private road, double detached garage nobody to look over anything was easy. Anyway bikes in the garage, no need to take them into the house.
As I ride my bikes from my house its all rather irrelevant.
I have an underground storage bunker which is only accessible from a portal in the spare bedroom ensuite.
I keep mine in my cellar. Granted, I have to go through the utility room, then the kitchen, and into the dining room to get there* but yeah, they all go in the cellar.
Someone to break in would have to be pretty determined I'd guess?
*the layout is gonna be getting changed soon as it's not ideal as it is.
Interested to know how others work out the logistics with their bikes as I really like not advertising the bikes to the local scutters
Don't have any local scutters. Closest we have is a bunch of 6-7 year olds.
Weeksy, I envy you, we don't have the budget for scutter free living.
off-road parking in front of Gated driveway which runs up the side of our house to the garage in the back garden.
I can unload bikes and walk straight up the drive, into the garden.
Bikes live in brick-built shed behind the garage, at the bottom of the garden.
We're overlooked, however we also live in a posh area populated by well-to-do, curtain twitching, nosy pensioners.
We're the only people at our end of the road who still work, and I'm quite happy that they're watching our house 24/7.
The Police are normally called as soon as 'Scutters' enter the village.
I have an underground storage bunker which is only accessible from a portal in the spare bedroom ensuite.
You too? Great innit! 😀
You too? Great innit!
How do you get into qwerty's spare bedroom?
Saw a lovely house recently, seems nice and quiet and the bikes would get to live in the second reception room. Thing that's put me off is the estate agents sign appears to have air rifle pellet holes in it!
I can't see the scutters, but I can see the signs (so can they through their sights).
"How do you get into qwerty's bedroom? "
2 gin and tonics and a twickle in your eye..............or so i've been told .......oe read on the internet somewhere.
[i]I can also pop through from the kitchen to the garage through the internal door to do any fettling.[/i]
[i]Some of the houses we've been looking at don't have internal doors to the garages bit it feels like a "must have" to me.[/i]
Its a 'must have' just so you can go to kitchen to garage without going outside or am I missing something?
I just ride down the driveway, through the gate, open garage, put bike away. I've not really thought of the logistics of it.
Okay an internal door would be nice to save me going out in the rain again but internal doors from a garage into the house are a major security issue unless your garage is very, very secure.
Interested to know how others work out the logistics with their bikes as I really like not advertising the bikes to the local scutters.
I've got a crappy shed with a fence that's really easy to climb over.
And 4 dags 
D'y laik dags?
"How do you get into qwerty's bedroom? "
I go in through the en suite from the secret bunker.
the sign will be re used so they could have happened anywhere
It's so easy to have an internal door knocked through so don't dismiss s house if there isn't one already.
Junkyard, I thought that but I've done a couple of drive-bys and the area of missing sign is increasing.
My bikes live in the house nd I generally ride from there. plus I live at the top of particularly steep hill, which has, conveniently for scutter distraction; a pub at the bottom 😀
These guys have started nicking bikes????????
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This seems to be a thinly disguised thread to get us all to tell you where we put our bikes and how best to get in there without being noticed...
I'm far more interested in keeping mine than stealing yours, I promise.
As she's injured and off work I have a live-in female bike guard in my house.
A few weeks ago, whilst working in my garage, its an open plan estate layout, I had the door 95% closed as it was quite windy out. Local wee boys (10yo) snuck up to the door and bellowed in whilst I was happily listening to Marc Riley. Stopped short of shitting myself I got such a fright! Would love to have an internal door - easier for making cups of tea!
"How do you get into qwerty's bedroom? "
I go in through the en suite from the secret bunker.
I'm feeling a little less special now. Seems my secret bunker is not a one-off.
[url= http://www.spiralcellars.co.uk/ ]Obviously one for the wine and one for the bikes![/url]
Our garage is detached, but accessible via a side door into our garden. I never use the up and over door, just take bikes in the back gate and into the garage that way. Internal door could occasionally be nice, but... Meh.
Our garage is detached...Internal door could occasionally be nice
More portal talk? 🙂
We're in a flat, with no garage, so I try to load/unload the MTB to/from the car parked round the back and out of sight. I ride the road bike straight out of the front door though.
We're looking at houses and bike logistics are a genuine issue, new(ish) builds all look too narrow, with no rear access to the garden. At least older houses have wider doorways and are more likely to have a substantial shed/ 'outbuilding' with access through the back garden.
Obviously an adjoining garage is a prerequisite for the internal door! Just not that fussed by either.
City centre Victorian terrace here. No garage. We recently had to move somewhere with an extra dining room to accommodate the bikes, which are now hung on the wall.
our bikes lives in the kitchen. and at work. i ride home the one i am using for the next ride.
all fettling is done at work, whilst i am getting paid.
'my' house has an internal door to a double garage...through the utility room...ideal for stripping off manky kit and straight into wash. Is a great house...was the only one of new builds that had that...
As soon as the divorce is sorted I'll have cash to find similar but there is heehaw like it in my area...
Bring my bikes in via the rear, along a private lane and past the summer house (minding not to trip in the dark into the swimming pool), bike into the heated workshop, strip off dirty clothes and into the sauna before hitting the hot tub.
Or is it - wheel the bike up the drive, past the car and into the shed, minding not to trip over all the kids crap? Either way it's still riding bikes!
Flash ****ers! Three bikes in the downstairs toilet stacked in an on top of each other stylee, one bike in the hallway, four in the kitchen (including the three kids bikes) and one broken DH bike in the loft! We need a garage...
I live in a old two up two down terraced house, can't be arsed with wheeling the bikes through he entry so everything comes in through the lounge and into the kitchen. The bikes (all 5 of them live in doors) can then be wheeled out in to the garden to be washed. Not ideal but what ya gonna do.?
Mine are in a shed at the bottom of the garden.................will I die?????????
Commuting bikes (1each) in the entrance hall. Best bikes in the upstairs kit room. Other bikes and kids bikes in the secure shed.
All in the dining room all 8 of them...tools and kids bikes in the garage Wife not happy....
chose the present house as I could have a door from hallway into the garage .
never use the garage door , it is blocked from the inside by the work bench .
every now and then my wife threatens to install me a bed and tv in there .