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Garage door kicked in, local scrotes riding £500 xc wheelsets to spar for skins.
I've been confined(ish) to the laundry. Decked out with work bench & abundant shelves & cupboards. Race bike hanging off the hot water cupboard.
Still tyre marks on the walls though.
Unkempt garden.
Hoses by the front gate & back door for cleaning duties.
Boxes of Bike mag under the spare bed.
Your seven year old daughter knows the top 10 DH riders by their riding style on MTB Cut footage, and hesitates to enter her first kids bike race because, I quote: "I'm not sure my skills are up to it yet".
having just moved house that estate agents one is very true, tiny bedroom, but a double garage and seperate utility room 🙂
Also.......
Three laundry baskets; whites, darks, bike kit
Odd sculptures formed form old bikes and parts.
Greasy fingerprints on all doors.
Cleat marks on wooden floor.
Recycling bin full of empty CRC & Wiggle boxes 😳
You can smell the still damp riding gear thats be festering in the back of the car since the weekend parked outside.
My friend is always amused/impressed that my kitchen cupboards contain equal parts kitchen utensils/crockery and bike parts/tools.
[i]You can smell the still damp riding gear thats be festering in the back of the car since the weekend parked outside.
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He he I had to drive some one home the other day and she was nearly sick when getting in my car. I suppose I haev just got used to it 😀
He he I had to drive some one home the other day and she was nearly sick when getting in my car. I suppose I haev just got used to it
That's not the bike kit, its the rohypnol that does that.
Damp gloves on the window sill "drying"
Strange flashing lights in the kitchen at night (lights charging)
Bike rack permanently on the roof of a very expensive car
The other members of the house refer to the workshop as the dining room, for some strange reason...
A conservatory used as a bike workshop.
Your other half saying "stop using that ercol table as a work bench"
Cycling gear everywhere.
"Recycling bin full of empty CRC & Wiggle boxes"
classic mistake - take your packaging to work 😀
"Recycling bin full of empty CRC & Wiggle boxes"
classic mistake - take your packaging to work 😀
Flattened bike boxes stored behind settee because they "may be needed"
the omnipresent scent of degreaser
old bike helmets bolted to the shed to make handy hanging baskets
I don't have my own place right now and this month am at my folks house. Am very much walking on eggshells as they are trying to sell it and hence keep it spotless.
But yeah, I have my excellent Tescos £5 front seat covers in my car permanently on, as are the rear seats permanently down with sheeting.
You keep pouring chain lube on your chips because yes, your bike lubricants do live in the same cupboard as your condiments. Where else would they go ffs?
The postie asks what you're building up next as he delivers the fifth Wiggle / CRC package of the week.
There's a small grit dune outside the back door where it's been washed off your bike post winter Peak rides. Eventually things start to grow on it and after six months, your neighbour - who you share a garden with - shovels it into a wheel barrow and takes it away 🙁
The bath / shower tray has beach-like underfoot qualities.
But surely all these things are just normal?
(Work) Desk upstairs has helmet, gloves and Alien ready to go with HID batteries on charging
Your local postie signs the "to be signed for, label" as he knows you need the bike bit later in the day and then sorting office will shut by the time you get home, total strangers riding by stop and borrow a shock pump as they recongnise the dirt driveway as marks from bike washing, it happened to me, the bookshelf has several bike guides and riding books and not much else
Bike clothes are put in separate wash basket.
Crutches still in garage, stilm meaning to be taken back to the hospital.
Bumps on head because of all the times banged it on the bikes hanging in the garage.
Kids drinks bottles are made by Camelback
UST sealant spillage on carpet, lack of 'normal' clothes, pile of stinking bike clothes, range of tyres in the garage....
bike bits/frames all over the house oil stains on mothers best rugs more bike content outside of house
sums up my house and i have barns/outbuilding's annd 3 workshops but the house is soo warm and cosey 
Most bed sheets have blood stains from the knee down.
empty ibuprofen boxes in the bin / car door pocket every Monday morning.
The only household tool in the kitchen drawer for "emergencies" is an old trail tool...... you never know when you will need a 6 mili allen key
Most bed sheets have blood stains from the knee down.
😀
Shower drain clogged up with mud.
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.
Mint Sauce poster framed in the living room.
more bikes than people in the house.
pile of decaying bike tyres in the garden.
Downstairs toilet isnt a toilet its a secure centrally heated bike storage facility! (with loads bike mags stacked within easy reach..)
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.
miele washing machine.
m&s home insurance.
hatchbacks.
suspension fluid stains on garage floor.
etc....
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).
[i]A whole drawer devoted to 'trail foods[/i]
Ahh yes, mine get raided far too often after a night out though....
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
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.
Oh and what are obviously some lights plugged in somewhere to charge that everyone else thinks are part of a bomb factory
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.
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.
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.
Apparently the wife sez "when there's ****in' mountain bike shoes in the top oven drying out while I'm cooking tea" 😆
Garage door eight inches thick with razor wire round it and/or off its hinges and wide open.
The house is miles from anywhere useful, but handy for the local trails.
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.
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 🙄
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.