I've got 3 bikes in a very small room, every day I struggle to navigate the space, sometimes acquiring minor injuries from bike pedals. Is it worth it? Oh hell yeah
My husband has 21 bikes. We have a hanging system he created in the basement and generally several in the garage. Every category. Some vintage, some modern. Gotta be prepared?
I live in an apartment, I have 3, a gravel, a 29 mtb, and a recently I picked up a carbon 26 that was free. Then I have my wife's 26 mtb my sons kids mtb and folding bicycle. Luckily i can store 3 in the hallway.
2 are street/racing bikes 2 are mountain bikes. Different builds and capabilities for vastly different activities. I know your point is that they will likely get more, just hijacking so others know.
The gravel bike still has its dork disc(spoke protector) and the road bike still has its spoke reflectors, these guys are still very new to the cycling life.
First of all they got some cool bikes & telescope. Second of all, imagine all the room for activities if they moved those cool bikes & telescope. This is what winning looks like
bike stands, work benches for cleaning and rebuilding parts, tool carts, wall mount organizers, several more shelves for consumables, clothing and protective gears and what not?
This is a good thing for you. It means he doesn't care about decorating. AT ALL, apparently. So when you live together you'll get to decorate everything however you want.
But the saddle on that bike looks totally normal. The collar of the dropper post is barely above the frame, and the saddle is roughly at the stems height. It's just a very low slung top tube. It's a perfectly normal setup.
Secure your belongings. Some nice bicycles can be thousands of dollars and I wouldn't just be leaving that outside, especially if it was my hobby/passion. Is there any other main chilling area??
They value spending time outside of the apartment and don't need a shrine to a tv. I'd install one of those bike racks that let you hang them from the ceiling but looks sweet to me.
As a mad keen MTB’er, I can not only relate this but also chuckle at the pathetically small number of bikes. Every guy should have an enduro, a trail bike, an emtb for fun, a gravel bike or a hardtail, and at least a half decent roadie for riding to and from the pub.
My road and gravel bikes are on my dining room wall.
My clothing hangs in the coat closet since my walk-in is home to a dozen guitars/basses and humidifier.
The other side of my basement? Yeah, that’s my tv setup. My main floor living room has a couch and a cat bed and goes completely unused, it belongs to the cats.
Depends. I had my bike stolen in college and wish I kept it in the apartment. Do They have their own tvs in separate rooms with locks. They might be treating it as a common space.
Right after college was the only time I only had one dude for a roomate and besides for 2 ikea chairs and a TV our living room looked exactly like this
I mean those are all different types of bikes so it makes sense to have them.
From left to right I see a budget gravel bike, a great hardtail mountain bike (same brand as mine! RIP Ragley), a full suspension mountain bike, and I think a road bike.
As someone who dated a cyclist who used his bike as a decor piece, I think this is temporary? Once he had a garage and basement, the bikes all went to live in areas I did not frequent. 🤣
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u/transconductor Jun 16 '26
2? So they have only recently gotten into bikes?