Hey..im an Industrial Design Student at CSM (Central Saint Martins College of Arts)

And i am working on a project about designing secure bicycle storage for indoors.

And my focus in this project is Sport Cyclist..and i havent got too much insight in womens way of dealing with their storage space at home, since ive only met mostly men who cycle for sports so far. ( maybe there is no gender difference in storing, but thats what im trying to see here aswell)

So could you please let me know off how you store your bicycles at home. And is there any possibility to get some images off storing places in this Gallery.

or even if you have some ideas off how you would like to store your bike or bicycles?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!

Regards,

Anna

Hang mine from hooks by the front wheel in a lean-to on the side of my house.  There isn't space for any other way. There's 4 of them in there.

There's 3 in the shed too!! 

P.s they are not all my bikes!!! I wish... 

2 in garage and 3 in house.

waiting to build up a bomb proof area in garage before putting other 3 in there.

don't mind them in the house (spare room) much at the moment because were decorating but once all teh rooms are done i want them in the garage ideally. don't think they'd be covered fully on the insurance though. hence needing to make it near impossible to steal before we risk it

10 in the garage (only 4.5 are mine).  4 are hung up on "hooks" which fit through the frame and are actually a bit too high for me to reach, two of these are locked using big muckle chains to a wall anchor.  On the floor we have 6, the most valuable ones - the tandem, our full sus bikes and occasionally my hardtail when I can be bothered are again locked using a large chain attached to a ground anchor.  The remaining bikes are "loose", mainly the less valuable ones and the road bikes.   The angle grinder lives in the house and we spent some money getting a much more secure garage door that locks properly, you could open the last one easily with a screwdriver as we found out when OH locked his house keys in there (I was away and we'd just got the spares back from a couple of friends).

I think we have good bike coverage through M & S home insurance though I wouldn't like to put it to the test. 

We keep ours in the house, cluttering up the place.

But we have a large stairwell and I would like some kind of pulley system, so I could hoist them up safley into this space - like a Victorian clothes airer know what I mean?

Something like this?

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f%5FProductID=604&f%5FFullProductVersion=1&f%5FSupersetQRY=C288%7E1&f%5FSortOrderID=1&f%5Fbct=c003154c003136c003545m004388

We moved house to get a garage to put the bikes in.  We used to have about 4 bikes leaning aginst the wall in the kitchen and about as many on hooks on the spare room wall.

Now we have about 4 stacked up against the garage wall, and about 4 or 5 on a sort if floor to celing "tree"  thing with big hooks on from IKEA. That's in the garage too. Then there's all the boots, shoes, tyres, tents and tools.  The skis are balanced between shelf brackets much higher up the wall. 

The car is outside.  It has never been in the garage.

Washing machine's in there too.  

Julbags - that's exactly what I mean. Thanks!

Has anyone tried this - how sturdy is it?