rate your facilities

[Spartak]

Recently had extra bike sheds built to accommodate the increase in cycling to work ( due to the C2W scheme ).
We have showers available & lockers but no drying room.
Although wet clothes can be dried at my work station ( next to an industrial 200 degree dryer )

 

[steveindenmark]

I asked for a place to be built to park my bike and it was built within 2 weeks. Its big enough for about 20 bikes. The most there is in there at any one time is 4.

It is not lockable but we are an out of the way spot and about 300m from a very quiet road in the middle of nowhere.

If I want to leave my bike at work overnight or over the weekend I just lock it in the changing room. We have lockers and 2 showers which are rarely used. I have access to tools and air lines. I can even get the bike into the showers to wash it if I have a mind to.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

My own personal shower (I am the only person that uses it) and the bike goes in the warehouse

 

[Mile195]

We have a rented garage at work. The roof leaks and the lighting is poor, but it's secure and not far away from the building. We are lucky enough to have a shower, but it has no window and no venilation, so it does get a bit "pongy" sometimes... Also, if I arrive beyond 9:30 you could be waiting for half an hour to get in there if it's a nice day and loads of people have ridden in. Fortunately I usually start at 9, so I'm alright!

Despite that I still give the facilities 4 stars... mainly because we have facilities where I work, but many don't. And the cleaners do their best to keep the ageing, shower clean and tidy.

 

[fribbleblib]

Minus 5 points.
The cycle shed is now being used to store the recycling bins.
This frees up an extra car parking space after one of the managers grumbled about having to use the secondary car park 20 yards away.
Bike now chained to a drainpipe outside.

 

[fossyant]

Ours is good now the whinging part timer/sunny warm weather lot have fecked off.

God they complained when we moved in our new building.

 

[fossyant]

Oh and me and another couple of real cyclists have this nice modern drying cabinet for ourselves. We use it every day. The part timers haven't been seen.

 

[steve292]

Showers, towels, covered bike rack right next to the control building 2 lockers in a purpose built locker room.

 

[Biscuitfrisky]

Due to being in a tenanted office it means my company can't add in facilities so have to use the disabled toilet to get changed.

Not all bad as the commute isn't very long so not exactly minglng when I get in.

 

[RichK]

Sheffield stands, (big) locker in changing room & another for spare kit, showers. Not really much else I could want though it is perhaps fortunate that nobody objects when I cover the radiators with wet kit.

 

[Tom B]

We have an open garage for bikes with bike stands. Following a recent theft we now lock our bikes to the frame despite the compound being supposably secure.

We used to be allowed to bring our bikes into the access controlled building and store them in a dead end stair well but H&S gestapo and the cleaners (who hold more sway than the bosses) put paid to that.

The showers are basic and sparten, but plenty-ful and cleanl 4 male and 2 female which suits the make up of the workforce. All usually see use between 6am and 7am but there is never a queue. Changing area could be bigger but it suffices. The only think we lack is a drying room / area. The cleaning gestapo occasionally see their arse and threaten to throw away clothes and towels left out to dry on locker room / corridor radiators occasionally they will collect everything up and put it all in a big bag so it all stinks. Someone retaliated a while ago and went in the cleaners store and bagged up all their goodies and dumped it in a corner.

Their favorite ruse is to put signs up saying "we are not here to clean up after you" and "all items not put away will be disposed of" to which the definition of theft has been appended by some wag.

 

[mjr]

Excellent, but as the NHS supports cycling one should expect that

Maybe for staff. Visitors are expected to drive and get a choice between 1970s wheelbenders and modern racing-bike-only plastic pods

 

[Freds Dad]

Excellent, but as the NHS supports cycling one should expect that

You obviously work for a richer part of the NHS than I do.
We have a few bike racks dotted around that are bent and not secure, no showers, no drying facilities and a less than useless C2W scheme that opens for 1 week per quarter.

 

[gavroche]

I am self-employed so I rate my facilities as excellent as the bike doesn't leave the house for going to work, I just get into my car and drive to my first pupil of the day. ( first picture doesn't apply, put in by mistake and don't know how to delete it. )

 

[mr_cellophane]

First day in the new building today
6 showers in the male changing room, towels provided and bit blurred

but the best bit

Makes up for the slight oversight that is is down stairs - literally. And 2 of the 4 doors are automatic.