Most bed sheets have blood stains from the knee down.
Shower drain clogged up with mud.
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Tell tale signs it's a mtbers house .
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Recognised while riding by the shirt you are wearing.
Not so much a MTBers house but just someone who spends too much time on here.
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Mint Sauce poster framed in the living room.
more bikes than people in the house.
pile of decaying bike tyres in the garden.Posted 2 years ago # -
Downstairs toilet isnt a toilet its a secure centrally heated bike storage facility! (with loads bike mags stacked within easy reach..)
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bassspine - Member
more bikes than people in the house.That's a very accurate one.
The fact that my wife seems to have grown to like the smell of GT85 around the utility room more than Chanel.
Constant gloves / buffs / cycle socks drying on top of radiators.
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miele washing machine.
m&s home insurance.
hatchbacks.
suspension fluid stains on garage floor.
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Fab thread - and most observations ring so very true!
Bubble wrap and padded envelopes everywhere along with numerous bits for the constant buy/sell of the classifieds.
A whole drawer devoted to 'trail foods' (sweets, trek bars, more sweets, energy gels etc).
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A whole drawer devoted to 'trail foods
Ahh yes, mine get raided far too often after a night out though....Posted 2 years ago # -
for me, what littlegirlbunny said
plus, a pile of filthy riding gear next to the wash basket (too filthy to wash, and too filthy to go in the wash basket). Another pile in the bedroom. Another one in the garage and random filthy items hanging up to dry out in the garage as well.
Probably just me!
And the garden is a foot higher than the neighbours from all the mud
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Mmm, just looked round the flat....dirty finger prints on the sugar bag and washing up liquid bottle, the sigmas are with the frontdoor keys in the hallway, there's a decorative oily cassette mark on the sofa and wd40 is permanently on the shopping list.
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Oh and what are obviously some lights plugged in somewhere to charge that everyone else thinks are part of a bomb factory
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There are cheap multi-tools everywhere, so whenever you need to work on something there's one within reach.
Player always loaded with a bike DVD for breakfast time.
Cupboards full of value malt loaf.
Light charger gets it's own socket.
You can't walk around in bare feet for risk of standing on bearings, cable ends, rotor bolts etc.
Bank statements read like the yellow pages' Cycle Shops section.
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Most bed sheets have blood stains from the knee down.
LOL.
The coarser bits of grit and dirt have built up in a line down the centre of your bath.
There are multiple pots/emptys of petroleum jelly/vaseline/sudocrem lying around the bathroom, but no kids.
Your dining room table is covered in OS maps, bridlepaths marked in highlighter pen.
There are bottles of lube dotted everywhere, even though you're straight.
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Sailors, builders, cowboys etc frequently entering and leaving. Right said Fred / scissor sisters / Erasure / WMCA blaring out of the windows. We were talking about single speeders yes.
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Apparently the wife sez "when there's fookin' mountain bike shoes in the top oven drying out while I'm cooking tea"
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Garage door eight inches thick with razor wire round it and/or off its hinges and wide open.
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The house is miles from anywhere useful, but handy for the local trails.
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Coat rack has one jacket that does work / pub / weddings / funerals / winter / summer...........and six bike jackets to cater for wind, light showers, heavy showers, rain , snow and one that was bought because it was on sale.
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Kitchen floor is scarred with evidence from every bike you ever built in there - yes I do need new cushionfloor
. Camelbak bladders on every radiator. Permanent frame box shaped parcel in the hallway (oh, is that just me?). Garage full of boxes, old washing machines, etc, etc - kitchen full of bikes. Handlebar end size holes in various doors/walls and +1 for the tyres marks everywhere too - I even have them on the ceiling 
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Thanks to GT85 overspray, a good run-up plus socks gets you from your bedroom across the parquet floored hall into the living room.
Camelbak bladder in the freezer.
Two manky black marks on the kitchen floor where your stick-e compound tyres fuse themselves to the lino if left for any length of time.
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my other half insisted i include /admit this
tub of vaseline in (her) bathroom cupbard marked 'bum only'
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kennyp - Member
Coat rack has one jacket that does work / pub / weddings / funerals / winter / summer...........and six bike jackets to cater for wind, light showers, heavy showers, rain , snow and one that was bought because it was on sale.
That'll be my house then. Jackets for warm but dry, warm but wet, cold and dry, cold and wet and any combination of the above. Plus one suit that varies between interview (pastel blue shirt and blue or purple tie), funeral (white shirt, black tie) and smart casual occasions (shirt, no tie).
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Result of being bored one day after I had movend into my new house around about 9 years ago
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Postierich, liking the house number. I'll copy that soon
For me, 6mm/5mm/4mm allen keys fished out of jean pockets just before washing Posted 2 years ago # -
When there is a queue of the neighbours kids outside your garage of a weekend, needing their bikes fixed.
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Cracking thread, so many things other people have pointed out (that my house has) that I've just thought "Oh yeah, thats not a normal house feature"
More bikes than people
Pedal scuff marks on door (I'm always careful about tyre and handlebar marks but forget about pedals)
Car seats always down
Greasy hand prints on doorsPosted 2 years ago # -
Bike bottles everywhere
Allen keys in various places around the house where they shouldn’t be
Hairspray in the garage (though less so since the advent of lock-on’s)
Tyre marks on the roof inside the carPosted 2 years ago # -
Yep the wif still likes to tell all that when she me me she had to share the bedroom with 3 bikes...<sniff> happy days.
> house chosen for ability to cycle to trails, proper brick outhouse aka the bike shed and some other stuff.
> I don't complain about her Hobbs bills as long as she doesn't mention the bike bills- liking the idea of old helmets as hanging baskets...
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