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Nope, because yesterday I had to remove a stuck bolt from my motorbike forks, and using the screw extractors always feels horribly like snapping the head off a bolt when it goes.
Does anyone else have a car in their garage?
My 15 year old garage is a double in length but it's barely wide enough for a modern car. I put a Fiesta ST in there once when we went on holiday but I had to exit through the window.
The previous owner had an Audi R8 in there somehow. When we moved in there were foam sheets glued all over the walls.
I can't get a car in now due to bike specific storage units and ground anchors etc. I've abandoned all ideas of one day having a kit car or another project to work on. Time is precious and I'd rather just ride.
My calmness is currently ruined by the annual event of local mice migrating indoors as it gets colder. So I know three things:
1. There is lots of mouse poo to clean up
2. At some point I will discover clothing/shoe/tent/picnic blanket that has been destroyed as they rip it up for bedding
3. The mouse murdering will start tonight with 8 traps going down.
I've got a double garage and a shed. So beer fridge and cars in the garage. Bikes and no end of other shit in the shed.
Does anyone else have a car in their garage?
MY cul-de-sac is actually designed around people having cars in the garage. There's just not enough parking for the number of houses. And yet the garages aren't big enough to get a car in. My pre-divorce house had a double length garage, which was also wide enough to have the car in. Plus a driveway big enough to squeeze 4-5 cars in! Er, don't get divorced 🤣
Depends where it is in the cycle of chaos and tidiness.
I like a messy garage because tidying it brings the zen.
The garage is my favourite part of the house tbh. Half is partitioned off as a gym with weights and my turbo bike setup, the other side is bikes / tools / storage. Quite like going out and just having a tinker with bikes etc - bit of peace and quiet.
I am a big fan of shed time. Mine has always been very tidy- originally as a haven from two messy children. Half of the building is my home office, so it's very easy to go for a "micro-fettle" between meetings.
I do very little "serious" maintenance tho as I'm a mechanical savage. All of that is done in my mate's messier but far more productive garage. Still I do have the beer fridge in here, sadly it's mostly cooling fun free beer nowadays.
Our double garage is 25% workshop and bike storage and 75% fully equipped CrossFit gym, no room for a car at all. And any way cars are waterproof so can live outside.
I am allowed to spread out into the gym area for bike stuff as long as it’s packed away at the end of the day (or it’s the wife’s bike!).
It’s nice and chilled in there unless the kids (6 year olds) have decided they want to use the rig and weights for their ‘workout’, in which case it’s chaos.
There's always space to move in my shed (99% of the time), but here's a glimpse of my work bench:
when dud you sneak into my garage and take this?
There's always space to move in my shed (99% of the time), but here's a glimpse of my work bench:
when did you sneak into my garage and take this?
This thread needs more pictures!
Yes, car in my garage (I built the car in the garage), motorbike and 4 bicycles, although the brompton and 7ft longtail cargo bike balance each other out. Asgard bike shed outside for other bikes as I need space for worktable, tools, beer fridge etc
same here, plus a few trips to the tip to get rid of most of the contents!
I did it, it's worth it. Now when I drop tiny screws on the floor, instead of losing them, it only takes me an hour to find them!
Bit different as this was when the weights bench arrived and i've relocated a few bits now.
Half of mine is given over to home climbing wall, so yes its a happy place or would be if i wasnt nursing a broken finger.
No. It has so many bikes and things in I cannot get inside it myself..
This is mine currently, just need the shed to arrive so I can move the garden stuff out and hang all the bikes on the wall and bolt the fold out workbench to the wall. Also need to bring in another 200lg of weights (Kettlebells, dumbbells, and plates) and bolt a C2 skierg to the wall (all currently in my parents’ barn from the move).
And when funds allow there will be a side door and roller door to free up more overhead space at the front as the garage runners annoyingly get in the way of overhead workouts
@joe-m - my kids have been nagging me to book them a bouldering wall since they were 3. Not sure where I’d fit it though. And wife won’t let me bolt things to the outside.
I guess I need a new house with a triple garage now.
@joe-m - my kids have been nagging me to book them a bouldering wall since they were 3. Not sure where I’d fit it though. And wife won’t let me bolt things to the outside.
I guess I need a new house with a triple garage now.
mate of mine has one in a purpose built shed.
my main board is at 40 degrees overhanging so have ended up with a lot of storage behind it.
im lucky to have a roller door so have space for the board, a workbench and bikes + surfboards on the wall. Its very full though.
Actually, looking at my garage, it would be ideal for a climbing wall up the outside (it's like 2 storeys, separate from the house.)!
But I can just about climb a step ladder, let alone a climbing wall 🤣
Does anyone else have a car in their garage?
My 15 year old garage is a double in length but it's barely wide enough for a modern car. I put a Fiesta ST in there once when we went on holiday but I had to exit through the window.
Same problem-ish in ours. The MG Midget fits in, but that has narrower track than the original mini. But that's with some fairly deep industrial shelving on one side and I can just about squeeze in and out on the other. I suspect you'd get an MX5 in there but only if the passenger got out first.
Garages feel like a bit of a relic on the average a modern house. Architecturaly we've sort of got used to their presence but really it's just a hopelessly insecure storage unit facing the street. They're not necessary anymore as car's are just generally more waterproof! A bit like adverts saying "always garaged" aren't a selling point anymore, though neither is "mechanic/engineer owned", that just means it's probably been bodged and/or has faults beyond repair!
Presumably people are still attached to the idea as newbuilds still have them. Most people would probably be better off with a workshop / garden room / general storage building in the back garden and eliminate the need for it to be curbside.
When we move I want a proper garage/workshop sized outbuilding. At least large enough to get something landrover sized in, with enough height above it to get it in on ramps to work on!
Wow, this is snowballing! Climbing walls! Would love a double size garage (or larger) to keep the car in and everything else and ideally a nice slot car track.
Another question, what's the calendar of choice in there? I've been going for Kelly Brook for years but she didn't do one this year 😞
Calm? Not really, it's where I try to inflate recalcitrant tubeless tyres and fix things that don't want to be repaired. However the garage also has it's own tiny house which is absolute zen, who needs divorce when we can live separately as we wish and I can jangle a guitar while she watches a murder mystery?
The car goes in fine but is removed when I want to work on anything to make more space. It's better insulated than most houses so the car stays cool in Summer and goes further in Winter because the battery is warm.
I've been going for Kelly Brook for years
Me too... she never responds 🙁
Surely there's only one calendar
Singletrack Wordl [sic]!
yes when tidy. no at the moment. the dining room is where bike magic happens in my house. the two rooms are connected by a utility room so it’s continuous traffic.
@thisisnotaspoon - why wouldn’t you want a garage. It’s a nice sturdy place to store your stuff, have a gym/bouldering wall or workshop. They add value to a house, usually give you at least one off the road parking space (which is very important in new build developments I can tell you). And in our case it has made our new build garden 18m wide because it’s inline with the house so actually gives us a 18m x 15m garden in a new estate. And because it’s a double we have 4 off the road parking spaces (9 when you factor in we share a bit of drive with the neighbour and we’re at the end) which is much better than fighting to park your cars on the street.
I’ll never put a car in it, but it’s been a playroom for the kids, workshop, gym, chill out space and storage room. Where else would I put bikes and tools? In a shed that would reduce my garden space and be no more secure?
My garage is too small for cars but as a workshop it's an oasis of fun.
Car work takes place ouside - under a 6m x 3m gazebo for big jobbies.
Not really. I guess my man cave is my office. Which is an absolute tip. So not really calming. Be nice if it was, but I don't really have the space to fit everything in.
This is mine. The contents overflow out the back (more timber) and front (piles of stuff for the tip). 
Mine, yesterday. Son's bike is the upside down one, having new BB & crank installed. Ebike just about to be ridden.
