[Closed] The wife was not impressed.

Versus. Brilliant bit of subliminal detailing.

am I supposed to see something?

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Nothing wrong with working on your bike inside at all, I've done it for years and usually in my living room as the kitchen is too small. Last winter year i rebuilt my MK2 Golf GTI 16v engine on a stand in my living room and my gearbox on the table over a period of 6 weeks as i waited for parts to arrive back from the engine tuners in Germany, at the moment i have my 15 drawer Facom roller cabinet in the living room as i'm tidying out the drawers, it's been up the workshop all year and it's rather untidy inside and my metric sockets are all mixed up, my screwdrivers are mixed up and the drawer liners are filthy and it's just a bloody mess inside with tools everywhere and i can't find owt and nothing is where it should be........ - Arghhhhhh, i can't stand it!.

Oh, and in one corner of the room i have a tea chest with a stripped down RD500 two stroke engine sitting on it, i'm waiting on a reconditioned top-end from Stan Stephens - my house smells of two stroke racing oil....Hmmm luverly!

Needless to say i do stay by myself 😉 and have plain wooden floorboards, and i couldn't care less bout decor or fancy interiors.

am I supposed to see something?

If you need a hint, it has also been discussed on this thread.

Absolutely. She did start screaming 'Outside! Go on! Outside!' and threw a crank onto the lawn for me to go and fetch... I presumed.

I missed that the first time through. 😳 😆

Of course, you retrieved the crank and threw one of her kitchen gadgets (of equal or greater RRP) out on the lawn, right? 😉

A mate once built a trials m/bike in the spare bedroom and then rode it down the stairs when he had finished. His wife didn't blink, she had her own bike of course.

Forget the colour, look at the size of those pedals. They're HUGE!

Excellent photo shopping skills lads and lasses. But where it The Badger to help him with his tubeless tyres?

(p.s. this morning I have built up a bike in my living room, whilst my wife was sat impassively on the sofa ignoring me. I must be blessed....or married to Helen Keller...)

my dad once got caught stripping a started motor on the kitchen table. He moved so quickly when my mum came back to try and hide it he dropped the starter motor and smashed the floor tiles. I'm not sure their relationship ever fully recovered

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I see nothing wrong here?

I remember drilling a hole in a chain device using a block of wood and aggressive self starting drill bit. Ended up with an 8mm hole in the kitchen floor, right through the boards too. Was really handy for getting rid of that last bit of dust you can never get in the dustpan....

Agree with building a vice into the top.

Top marks too for leaning the black rubber tyre against a flat white surface - good attention to detail there.

Bunnyhop - "Kitchens are for baking, cooking, washing (not bikes)and eating" - Now that's just bloody weird.

Those boring white cabinet doors could use some stickers to liven things up a bit. A Park Tool one would sure look nice.

bikebob - Member

Versus. Brilliant bit of subliminal detailing.
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Turn this into one of those cunning stunts!!

You obviously need a workshop :-))

Only because you are thinking of her!!!

This is slowly working on my missus, the slowly growing pile of parts/tools that live by the door means she was showing me £600 snap-on style workbenches and suggestign them as christmas presents, about 6ft by 4ft 2" thick wood worktop moounted on a load of metal tool drawers, and the whole lot on castors. Result!

Now I just need a bigger garage with heating and light to justify it!

StefMcDef wins the 'Singletrack in joke' award 🙂

U shouldn't have let her install a kitchen in the man cave in the first place

I've stopped doing this after I caught hora junior using a 1lb lump hammer against the bike after I'd walked off quickly to find a tool 😯