How/where do you store your gear?

[stinkwheel]

Right, I have shitloads of bike gear. I'm trying to tidy up my house into something resembling a fit state for someone else to live in it with me.

Think Mr Trebus off "Life of Grime" but without the decomposing stuff.

I've been doing a lot of throwing out, in spite of the councils best efforts to stop me throwing stuff out "Can't take that van in here mate, that's commercial waste.". (I now arm myself with written permission for my van to dump rubbish in a skip before I go.)

It has reached the point where I am now just moving stuff around.

So, how/where do you store your bike gear? Inspire me with your ingenuity. I have two jackets, two pairs of bike trousers, 4 helmets, numerous gloves, waterproofs, boots and thermals. They are currently lying around on the floor. There is also a selection of soft luggage, bungees etc.

Bear in mind that the kit may well be wet when I return home and that I would like to be able to just grab stuff and put it on, so minimal rooting about. It should also be easy to use or stuff will just land up back on the floor.

There is a large room (say about 10ft x 20ft) that I don't use for anything much other than walking through to get to the kitchen and I was going to use this to store my camping and bike gear.

Shelves, boxes, hooks, racking?
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[Graprilia]

i hang my jackets and trousers on hooks in the garage next to the bike so if its wet they can dry off.

I store the helmet in the box it came in , safely in the cupboard.
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[ms51ves3]

My leather jacket is hung up on my door, my textile jacket is at the end of my bed, my winter gloves are inside my helmet, my helmet is on top of some books and my summer gloves are being used to stop my TZR clock fairing making an imprint on my TZR seat.

[kawakid]

I wouldn't recommend a garage for storing clothing. Unless its an integral garage which gets heat. Otherwise things can go off.

Leather Jacket on coat hook, helmet and gloves in computer cabinet.

Trousers & boots in the pantry.
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[Pernig]

Sounds like the large room will be a good place to stow stuff, especially as it is a 'thoroughfare' through your house, which gives you an incentive to keep it tidy, rather than a spare room where clutter just builds up.

My suggestion for the bike gear would be clothes-shop style free standing clothes rail:

https://workshireservices.ie/cart/images/740lg.jpg

The same storage capacity as a wardrobe but without the bulk and annoyance of having to assemble them. However you'll have to get a pretty strong one as leathers etc with armour in tend to weigh loads.

You can get wardrobes with shelves at the side and a bottom level for boots/helmets etc (I have one). I think they're called wardrobe shelves. As long as you do them up pretty tight they should stand the weight of all your bike gear. This could also be a neat solution for camping gear. I will try and get a pic .

Edit:

This is mine.
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[Tristan.]

*looks around room*

3 helmets, 2 textile jackets, 2 sets of full leathers, 4 pairs of boots, 4 pairs of gloves

All on the floor.

If I'm in a tidy mood I much prefer hanging stuff on hangers rather than hooks, the armour tends to sit funny after any time on a hook.

Keep a supply of old newspapers to stuff inside wet gloves and boots.

[Stelmer]

Sounds a bit like my house.....though all my bike kit is hanging from my bed and to get in the thing involves a nice climb...

In this spare room I would:

I'd put shelves up for your lids with something like a rail underneath to hang clothes.

Or

Make some rails going the whole width of the room or buy some sort of freestanding rack that you could hang wet clothes from. I find my kit dries in no time when hung in the middle of the room. Remember the old days with washing lines indoors?

Shelves for the lids, boots can go on the floor. Bungees make handy washing lines to hang light things from.

Improve ventilation in this room cos all that kit hanging and getting aired will honk a bit....keep it moderately cool too.

Cart anything you don't want (that can be sold) to the closest charity shop and let them dispose of it. Invest in lots of storage boxes too and put the stuff you want to keep in them.

[mooserx]

all my bike kit gets hung up in the wardrobe, an helmet on the shelf. simple.
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[Azonicben]

I use one of them --> ikea hall stand thing

Helmet up top, boots/waterproofs in the bottom bit, pillion lid hanging in bag on hook and two jackets +one piece on the hanging rail.

Two side by side would do four helmets and 8 jackets/suits on hangers

Similar to the bike specific stuff in the back of magazines for a fraction of the price.
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[hellkat]

Another vote for floor I'm afraid.
My jacket almost ALWAYS gets hung over the back of my computer chair, but if I'm putting it away, it just goes in the closet in the hall.

Got nothing ingenious to impart, other than to recommend proper decent wooden coathangers, pointless using anything else for bike gear.
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[Pernig]

[stinkwheel]

This is all good stuff folks.

I'll probably land up making something myself along a similar line to those open plan wardrobe type things. I can buy a shitload of timber for the prices they are charging for a complete unit, which you then have to self-assemble anyway.
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[hellkat]

Plus, if you had a hangy rail thing, you could hang your bungys on the ends, so they don't get all tangled up. Most annoying, that.

In one of those lying-in-bed-can't sleep-moments, I once imagined that it might be interesting to make a cupboard with a hanging rail at the top, and also one at the bottom, so that you could sort of "mount" your boots on there, or use the bottom hanging rail (which obviously wouldnt be so much "hanging" as "sticking-up") ... as a muck-scraper.

Then the bungy problem would be solved by hooking them top and bottom, which would stretch them rather than allow them to hang dangling.

But it was a bit of a mad idea.
And it was quite late at night
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[stinkwheel]

Actually. What I probably want is something that resembles the back of a chair but is more stable.

Maybe like a "scarecrow" kind of arrangement that I could hang the jacket over the "arms" and put the helmet on the "head"and a rail at the front for hanging trousers over, gloves on the end.



Something like this. Two of them for my two sets of "normal" kit then shelving/hangers for the rest.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[ram_doom]

Got some tesco hook kits, and positioned them high enough above the sofa so that the clothes hung off them dont interfere with anyone sitting down.
Helmets are in helmet bags, hung from the hooks, and gloves in their own bag... also hung from hooks.
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[Clanger]

My entire kit, including leathers, trousers, boots, jacket, lid, gloves, tank bag, waterproofs and other bits and bobs related (including camping kit live together in one cupboard...most in a big box, the rest (the tent, airbed etc) on a shelf.

Everything else, like bucket, tools, wetwipes, manual etc live in the garage with the bike.
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[S1KE]

Am i the only one with a seperate cupboard for all my bike gear!

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[pyx_e]

You need a "main storage" and a Quick access storage" areas.

1/ Main storage; biggish cupboard or bit of floor to pile it all in/on.

2/ Quick access: near the door for fav gear that suits the season.

Shuffle stuff from one to the other in a way that makes you feel like you are in control.
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[stinkwheel]

Ok. Following some further research, I'm now thinking towards making a modular kind of shelving out of MDF. Along with something like my previous clotheshorse idea for my "curent" kit.

Most stuff on the shelving. Clotheshorse can be moved so it is in the boiler room for stuff to dry or near the door for a quick getaway.

Consists of a series of 4-sided MDF "boxes". The smallest of which is a square. The boxes are then made up of multiples of said squares as required and stacked together. A gap could easily be left to fit a rail.

Might need a back screwing on or some sort of clip or fitting to hold the individual bits together (probably small sections of alloy gutter holding any two adjacent "flats" together).

Not my idea, just my interpretation of someone elses.

Could be easily dismantled, rearranged and shifted around. Especially if I move house (unlike my TV/Hi-Fi rack which is too big to remove from the room it was built in).
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[hmmmnz]

i use nails, big arse 6 inch nails, where ever i want to hang something up, i wack a big nail there,
simple and effective,
modular for early man
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[stinkwheel]

I should also add that I live in a victorian house with lath and plaster walls.

If I want to attach anything bigger and heavier than a poster to them, I might as well save some time and just whack a big hole in the plaster using a lump hammer then drop whatever I was going to hang on the floor next to it. That way I save money on cavity fixings.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[hellkat]

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