For now, since I still have the luxury of living with my parents, having a hardwood floor in here, and a door in and out of the house in my room, I just wheel it on inside and it's right here with me. Both bikes actually.
They take up a lot of room in my room though, and block a lot of things. But like hell they're sitting outside. It's one thing to ride them through inclement weather, but I'm not going to leave them out in storms, or what not.
My girlfriend just moved in with me while we look for a new (larger) place. My three bikes and her one live on the wall in our bedroom! I get to look at my bikes every night before I fall asleep.
Ours are in the living room, live in a condo. Only have a 1 car garage and its full of car junk, and a junk car. I don't trust our outside storage area enough to put them out there.
When we lived in an apartment bikes were allowed in the house, then hung in the spare bedroom, then when it became a nursery / kids room, then got moved around to not be near the crib / bed...When we got into a house with garage space, bikes are only allowed with they are brand new.
I can sometimes sneak them in for a night and pretend they are not in the corner of the dining room and she may also pretent they are not there but they always end up out in the garage.
I have my FS in the hall between the kitchen and foyer most of the time. It's there now as I type this. SS "beater" is on the porch for spontaneous neighborhood romps with the kids. HT is in the basement where I can eye it up while jamming or recording, along with my mid-school Redline bmx resto-mod. Unless it swaps places with the FS.
When I was living solo my HT slept at the foot of my bed, near my bass rig.
I bring all of our bikes in at times depending on the weather, but I also just bought a bike maintenance stand so now I can work out in the garage as well.
Right now, I have a mtb, a road bike, an extra set of wheels, 2 tubes and 3 tires in the living room. The guest room has the other mtb and road bike, it also happens to be the "parts" room. And yes, my wife is ok with it
Haha yeah! I try to park it in the living room after every ride. The wife tolerates it for about a day then shes after me to get it back to its hole (guest bedroom/bike storage) upstairs...lol I'm glad I ride a heavy old cro-moly hardtail cause she cant carry that one up the stairs like she can my roadie. The roadie gets ferried upstairs while I'm at work.
*Sigh* the trials of living with bike-illiterates...I'm working on her though!
I live in a 700 sf one bedroom condo so two of my three bikes live in the dining room and living room along with my girlfriends half the time. The repair stand is set up as well most of the summer in the living room and my living space tends to look like a bike shop with tools and spare rims and boxes of parts sitting around everywhere. I'm just fine with that though I'm curious where the new Downhill bike will fit come spring though...
Haha youre definitely not the only one. Mine stays hanging on the wall next to my living room TV. Sorta my own method for finding the daily motivation to resist being a couch potato lol