Storing bikes outside.

[rogerzilla]

Indeed, presumably there’s a maintenance charge if it’s a leasehold flat, someone must be responsible for common areas

All work is chargeable to the leaseholders, though, unless there's a sinking fund (rare).

 

[roadrash]

Only on the livingroom wall.

errm, nothing wrong with that......ok its in the dining room but ….
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/wall-art.260393/

 

[mjr]

Absolutely without any doubt whatsoever. Sorry, but your bike WILL DEFINITELY be stolen if you leave it there, just a matter of time.

Might take more time than you have the bike or live there, though.

It's all chance: I lived a year in an edge-of-city flat with my bike locked overnight with a rubbish (in hindsight) chain and padlock in one of those shoot high-low gutter racks outside someone else's kitchen window and another year chained to a cast iron soil pipe outside a shared entrance door to another flat and it survived both times, whereas my wife locked a worse bike in a high-low rack outside someone's kitchen window outside a town centre flat and it was nicked within a couple of months.

 

[Knightly85]

Ok so here is How I will be leaving my bike for now, I have also removed the saddle. Also is a picture of how I can see my bike from my front room. In these flats we all own the leasehold so when we have our next meeting I will ask for a more secure place to store bikes altho I'm the only one in the flats with a bike so I don't think I'll get much back up. I will try and store it in a safer place untill then.

 

[vickster]

I wouldn’t put the wheel in the wheel bender, stand the bike in a different way, strong gust of wind and the rear wheel toast

 

[fossyant]

Front wheel isn't secured with the loop going through the frame - I could undo the wheel, and get the loop past the bars.

Just trying to help !

 

[Knightly85]

Front wheel isn't secured with the loop going through the frame - I could undo the wheel, and get the loop past the bars.

Just trying to help !

Ahhh yes I see, thank you.

 

[fossyant]

Oh, and stuff a plastic bag in that open seat post to stop rain going down inside.

PS we are full of help.

This is what I have for one of the bikes in my garage where it's stored in front of 'other stuff', as well as bikes hung from other walls.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/bikemate-flo...kMkNOxRF2Db6gFadU2hoCensQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Drago]

Take the front wheel off, turn the bars, put it under your bed

 

[vickster]

Even then unlikely to fit under a divan base

Throw away all your clothes and hang the bike in wardrobe

Would it be possible for you to install your own bike locker in the grounds? Secure and dry something along these lines
https://www.lockit-safe.co.uk/product/single/
https://www.lockit-safe.co.uk/product/plastic/

Even if it costs £500, well worth it

 

[Knightly85]

Haha, thanks so much for all your help I appreciate it very much.

 

[carlosfandangus]

Take the front wheel off, turn the bars, put it under your bed

Thats how I used to store the Peugeot before I got an extra shed, one pedal off

 

[mjr]

Thats how I used to store the Peugeot before I got an extra shed, one pedal off

Clutch pedal? (Sorry - it's just amusing to imagine it was a Peugeot 205.)

 

[Knightly85]

Is this better? Trying to just the wall to hide it.

 

[vickster]

Yep and a cover over it and a couple of D locks better still And as above, you don't want the seat tube full of water, so cover the hole