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Title: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: letsgo on December 30, 2012, 08:06:43 PM
I don't like working on my bike much but when I do I want to have all tools and parts ready and within arms reach.  It makes the project of tuning up or replacing broken parts go more quickly.


(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8325875035_49eed3a756_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: wolverines on December 30, 2012, 08:28:22 PM
like the majority of riders it seems to be the kitchen table.   ;D :beer: ;D
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Bri-jon on December 30, 2012, 08:31:46 PM
love it. I want something setup like this when I can afford a bike and somewhere to keep stuff.


Luck man


No vice I see though, I used to put a thick rag in the vice put the frame or whatever part I'm working on it it. Made life so much better than working on a upside down bike  :D  And it was nice for putting in the bb in the frame. I dont like the whole hit it with wood and mallet.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: letsgo on December 30, 2012, 09:06:43 PM
Bri-jon,  Yes.  I am going up to the hardware store to get a table vise and bolt it to the bench.  Something like this:
(http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_8016.jpg)
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Phatman on December 30, 2012, 09:09:24 PM
Conservatory or the spare bedroom/gaming room (most of the tools are in the wardrobes) Id love to have a work bench with all my tools hanging in a particular fashion.
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Post by: dan4130 on December 30, 2012, 10:23:51 PM
wow  a quamen with brake mounts
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Bri-jon on December 30, 2012, 10:28:28 PM
yep thats what I had. Just make sure you have a nice thick rag in there I found the vice scratched my paint with a old t-shirt I had then moved to a thick towel I zip tied in place
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: OldYeller on December 31, 2012, 01:07:32 AM
Wow, I usually use the livingroom floor.


I'm lucky to have a very understanding wife.
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Post by: getzfafive on December 31, 2012, 02:27:58 PM
Living room floor, with a bulldog overseeing the operation.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Budz on December 31, 2012, 03:26:48 PM
My place is small so I just work in my bedroom usually sitting on the bed in comfort.
Not the best setup, but I get the job done.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: 89schwinnsting on December 31, 2012, 06:01:07 PM
Rear patio of the house, or in the back shed. Patio has nice, smooth concrete. If it's raining, I can just use the limited space in the shed.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: back2flat35 on December 31, 2012, 07:08:24 PM
Either the garage with my stand or the living room while watching tv when my family falls asleep. Always grease my coasters in my living room
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Leone4130 on January 03, 2013, 06:29:01 PM
Ive turned the basement into a BMX heaven with bike stands, display cases and a lot of my tools and my favourite bikes I collect. I don't watch TV or play videogames so if I'm not riding or working, I'm usually just sitting in the bike room staring at stuff. Some people find it creepy, I find it comforting.
 
If its really nice outside, I'll work out in the garage where I have my Vice and a crappy plastic table.
 
Alot of my friends bring their bikes to my place to get stuff done, I like it!

If anyone is ever in southern ontario, please stop by! I'd love to share my collection with people who share the same interests.
 
 
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Bri-jon on January 05, 2013, 03:53:23 AM
we need pics ! ! ! I'm in Barrie Ontario what city or town you in?
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Post by: faqe on January 05, 2013, 01:51:31 PM
On my couch, in front of the tv, on my dining table, on the kitchen floor, in the bathroom tub.  Owh,  and of course the garage. I do my work on my bike everywhere.  ::)


And the best thing, my girl doesnt mind.
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Post by: das-owal on January 05, 2013, 03:13:05 PM
When I'm riding and something is loose I fix it rigth away. Got all the tools needed with me ever (have a riding spot 1 hour away from home and there is nothing worse then to arrive there and find out something is loose). To build up the bike completly I do it in my living room because it's way cleaner than the garage...
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Post by: Flatland-Cris on January 08, 2013, 02:38:55 AM
home work space
a fold up stand hiding somewhere too!

(http://i.imgur.com/6Yioo.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/QI9nQ.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/QI9nQ.jpg)

Work....Work space lol

(http://i.imgur.com/DZPmX.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/gMgN2.jpg)
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Post by: kchez on January 08, 2013, 01:30:54 PM
My multiple personality garage at my shop, which is where I letter vehicles & pinstripe bikes, make crazy sh*te for my house, house my race cars, work on bikes, winter riding spot (the floor sucks) sometimes play music, etc. Don't have a space at home, just a shed that packed with crap and the wife probably wouldn't dig it if I was building bikes in the living room!

A goal is to build a building at home to move out of this space (which leaks like a sieve and has other issues, but is cheap and is all I've got at the moment) Looking to do a 30' X 40' two story w/ 14' garage door & a half loft and move my business there, but it's gonna be crazy expensive, like 20-25K easy with electric/ heat, permits, rezoning, etc. Will make for an awesome winter spot, though if I can get it done.

(http://www.phenomenondesigns.com/pics/shop-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Leone4130 on January 08, 2013, 02:29:17 PM
we need pics ! ! ! I'm in Barrie Ontario what city or town you in?

I'm in simcoe Ontario, you should come check out some of our jams we hold in the Toronto, brantford, and simcoe area. I'll upload some pics of my basement bike stash after work! Cheers
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: melon lover on January 08, 2013, 08:20:45 PM
Work....Work space lol

I take it you work for halfords then ;-)
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Flatland-Cris on January 09, 2013, 12:19:18 AM
aye must be one of the very few employes who know what a bike actuly is,90% of bikehut are ripspeed(satnav) rejects who had no other option than to work with bikes... no wonder we get the piss ripped!
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Leone4130 on January 09, 2013, 12:31:54 AM
we need pics ! ! ! I'm in Barrie Ontario what city or town you in?


I'm in simcoe Ontario, you should come check out some of our jams we hold in the Toronto, brantford, and simcoe area. I'll upload some pics of my basement bike stash after work! Cheers




Here is a pic of my downstairs space, well half of it. You can see these bikes:
-KGB Newconexion
-Flatware the waltz
-1999 Haro Master
-2003 Haro master M7
-2000 GT show
-another 2000 GT show
-Part of an ares ashura

Whats not shown (stored in the garage, or one of my sheds)
-1999 Dyno slammer
-2000 Dyno slammer
-1999 Hoffman EP
-1999 GT show
-1982 Schwinn thrasher
-wethepeople stud


I have some other flatland rigs I cant remember and a few other non-flatland bikes.. Space isn't big enough so the girlfriend and I are buying a house in about 4 months..STOKED

Cheers!!





(http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab137/leone4130/IMG_4087_zps2945f5bc.jpg)
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: Bri-jon on January 09, 2013, 03:53:38 AM
HOLLY WET DREAM BATMAN ! ! ! I dont even have a bike anymore, I sold it to move to Canada.


I tried to go to the comp in Toronto in March but I couldnt afford it. I even asked Lea in the USA if I could used her bike to have a play in the Jam if I could make it but she didnt go in the end.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: lawbmx on January 09, 2013, 09:12:08 PM
I'm a bike mechanic so just use my workshop at work, and my flat spot is right outside the door. Takes me less than 10 minutes to get there.
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: LOU4130 on January 21, 2013, 05:19:36 AM
i just work on my living room floor. I wish i had a space like Leone4130. id love to have a couple of old Haro Masters  and a GT pro freestyle tour just to have...with as much NOS parts as possible. But in this place, i have no room! lol
Title: Re: Work space: Where do you work on your bike?
Post by: rawchild on January 21, 2013, 05:13:20 PM
That walts  is pretty.