Bike in the cloakroom - AIBU ?

Yes

Just for clarity we are talking about the downstairs toilet? The dunny? The cludgy? Not a place where visitors leave their cloaks and capes after depositing their cards on the silver tray proffered by the butler?

If you don't know the answer to this you're beyond saving already.

Take the opportunity for a new man cave ?  Is it just a cloakroom or is this posh talk for the downstairs loo. If it's literally a cupboard, then why not use it for bike storage. Who gives a stuff what visitors think, it's your house.

I could object to the seven sewing machines MrsF has in the house, but hey, ho, my five bikes, plus four other bikes, associated wheels etc are in MY garage !

You do have more than one bike though ?

I keep my bike in our downstairs cloakroom.

YOU ONLY HAVE ONE BIKE! WTactualF!

Presumably folk can still use the sink & toilet - if so offer to add a curtain etc to hide it?

Or have you a garage/shed, and that's why she's really not happy?

Am I really being unreasonable or are we heading for a patio extension scenario?

I would propose suitable bike storage. At least a 3x4m shed, heated, lighting, workbench etc.
Of course this can be installed onto a suitable area of fresh paving, just make sure it is level with no lumps in the middle.

One bike lives in the dining room, one in the living room, 2 in the garage (i don't use them ones)

I've always been of the opinion that you buy/rent a house for you and not for the people who visit you. It therefore follows that you can do whatever the fun you like with the cloakroom.

Resolve the issue by setting up a permanent turbo in the bedroom, to use as bike storage, next to your side of the bed. 😉

"I keep my bike in our downstairs cloakroom."

<br />YOU ONLY HAVE ONE BIKE! WTactualF!

For the avoidance of doubt:

I keep my currently most used bike in our downstairs shitter.

Mate of mine kept his kayak behind his sofa.

His kayak. Behind his sofa.

Let that sink in for a moment 

Well yeah, but.

the smell of chain lube and cleaning stuff is extremely pleasant

It's all about the details. The Peaty stuff is minty and all fine. The Fenwicks Pro stuff smells like ultra-condensed fresh cowpat. Impressive stuff, but yeah it stinks.
Get those small details nailed and it'll be fine.

If it's a small shitter and users could potential catch their clothes on your dirty chain and other oily bits - then yes, you are being unreasonable. Especially if you have a shed/garage to keep it in.

Mate of mine kept his kayak behind his sofa.

His kayak. Behind his sofa.

Let that sink in for a moment 

Handy for flooding emergency ? Sounds sensible to me.

I get pelters for drying out the packraft indoors.   That lives under the stairs.  Bikes in the cludgie.

MrsJ maintains that this is unreasonable and that it makes the claokroom not appropriate for visitors to use.

You live there, they don't. They can keep whatever they want in whatever rooms they have where they live. Bikes indoors upset some people, but they're wrong.

Bikes indoors upset some people, but they’re wrong.

Thanks heavens someone has a working moral compass !!

MrsJ maintains that this is unreasonable and that it makes the cloakroom not appropriate for visitors to use.

**** the visitors, it's your house, do what ever you want, and tell any unhappy visitors to jog on.

Obviously agree you happy to compromise, if you can build a secure man-shed, alternatively an outside loo

You are not being unreasonable. However it would be worth googling "Toilet plume" and asking yourself whether you want your precious bike exposed to that on a regular basis?

If there is enough room to use the loo, then why not. Our downstairs powder room isn't big enough to get a bike in.

Slap a portaloo on the front lawn.

I can only wonder why you're calling a toilet a cloakroom.

Glad ransos posted that as I was thinking the same. For a minute there I thought the OP lived at a theatre or something

It is very rare that at least one of my/kids bikes is not in the hall, often absolutely filthy and more often than not several are there. The others are floating around various storage places in the rest of the house. No room in the garage, that is full of car.

I think bikes indoors (ie in the house) are a complete PITA, they fall over, hey have sharp edges, they get in the way, they're mucky everyone else in the house complains ...Get them outside 

How big is your downstairs bog to fit all that in? Mines only just big enough for a toilet and hand basin.

To answer the question, my house is for me so if visitors don't like something then they don't need to come round. I've had this conversation with my mother in law who often lets me know that she doesn't approve of our dogs on our sofa...

I see no problems, but then I had 2 bikes under the stairs 3 in the downstairs loo and the titanium twins in the dining Room.**

folks come to visit you, not walk into a showhome with no soul.

** this has now been sorted with a lovely custom fort knox/bike workshop/temple of shiny things.

**** the visitors, it’s your house, do what ever you want, and tell any unhappy visitors to jog on.

This seems to be a common sentiment, but it's missing a key piece of information IMO, which is that:

MrsJ maintains that this is unreasonable

The unhappiness of visitors pales into insignificance in comparison with the unhappiness of MrsJ, and in turn, the reflected unhappiness she can shower onto OP himself.

I would tread with care. You can of course take a strong line, but it requires strategic thought. Does MrsJ have some unreasonable household behaviours you can somehow use as leverage?

@nixie, A car in the garage, call yourself a cyclist ?  Garages are for bikes

How sweaty is your helmet? Or shoes, and rain shell?

Bikes in the house is normal/reasonable/acceptable/inevitable. But there are some items of clothing that are so stinky that they could probably walk out to the garage where they belong on their own.

Keep them in there but agree to move them elsewhere when you are expecting visitors.

How sweaty is your helmet?

Bit personal for a public forum .

Can't you put it in your orangerie ?, or perhaps find a space in the Butlers pantry.

Sounds to me like you have a perfect excuse for a "compromise" wherein you end up with a lovely new outbuilding of some sort to store and work on your bike without being disturbed every time someone is busting for a wee...

I'm assuming you've not got space in the Downstairs loo to actually work on a bike?

@nixie, A car in the garage, call yourself a cyclist ?  Garages are for bikes<br /><br />

I can only think this is a cycling imposter. Fake news. Who’s using a garage for cars when there are bikes and kit to be stored!?

Slap a portaloo on the front lawn.

I would pay to see the reaction to that.

Is the patio extension to allow for more bike storage or for you to be buried under when you don't move your bike?

Build an outdoor crapper - complete with squares of newspaper hanging from a rusty nail hammered into the door just too high to reach from a sitting position.
You could cut costs by doing without a door - just use a plastic sheet and relocate rusty nail to high up on one of the walls.
Don't bother with any lighting in there.
That then frees up more indoor bike storage space for you.

I can only wonder why you’re calling a toilet a cloakroom.

Because 'toilet' is common. 'Lavatory' is preferred, 'cloakroom' for Dr's and the like dontchaknow.

Tsssk. STW plebs 🙃

I keep my bike in our downstairs cloakroom.

MrsJ maintains

Bike in the cloakroom – AIBU ?

Yes.

I’m assuming you’ve not got space in the Downstairs loo to actually work on a bike?

Interesting question. There is room to lube the chain. I've been wondering if there is any downside to doing so in a vertical position (oo err missus)

I can only wonder why you’re calling a toilet a cloakroom.

One does have standards of politesse

If it's a Pista groupset then this is an understandable mistake