How the hell do you cope without a garage!

[Str8 Jacket]

Me and koba live in a 1 bedroom flat. Its not small but its not huge. I dont have a garage but I have a shed where the buckets live along with fuel cans and race stands. However the house has become a "kind-of garage". In one corner of the lounge I have a set of tyres and a rear tyre and rim in the other corner is a couple of boxes filled with painting equipment, oil, gear fluid, CRC and other cans and bottles. One of my TV cabit shelves is filled with a battery, spark plugs, sprockets and other assorted 'smaller' bike parts and one of the cupboards is deciated to random tools, chains and other parts. There is also currently a fly wheel puller thingymabob next to the stereo.
In the bedroom there is another tyre and on the shelve is where the helmets, tank bags and A100 side covers and other cosmetics. Dont get me started in the bloody wardrobe as between us we have 4 sets of leathers and codura's and a race suit!
It makes cleaning a friggin nightmare. It took me 3 bloody hours to clean a 1 bedroom flat! Its ridiculous, I think we need a new flat with a garage, especially as at the moment we have 9 bikes between us!!! No wonder I am an alcoholic. I want my house back!

Rant over.

[Number One]

Sounds like it is time to find a new place where you and all your bikes and their bits and bobs can fit happily.

Otherwise just top up that drink o yours and carry on as you are....

[Dak]

It doesn't matter, I have a huge garage and there is still junk everywhere, garages are NEVER big enough.

[sAsLEX]

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[ajturbo]

Sounds like it is time to find a new place where you and all your bikes and their bits and boobs can fit happily.

Otherwise just top up that drink o yours and carry on as you are....


well we have a spare room...
i can also be motivated to move into the smaller of the 2 big rooms...
but i will need ear plugs?...:scooter:

[Str8 Jacket]

Ha, until just recent there was a bike living in the lounge as well as everything else! It was crowded!

[yungatart]

Have you got room on the lawn where you could put an old lock up container for bikes and bits..if not, what about one of those aluminium sheds that you can get from Mitre 10 or The Warehouse.
You can get heaps of stuff in those sheds and they are reasonably weatherproof.

[Str8 Jacket]

but i will need ear plugs?...:scooter:

When you hear Malcolms racebike, not the RG but the "Mutt" you will! Its fucken loud, single cylinder 650 in a NSR frame and probably vibrates more than your trac..., oh I mean Buell. :)

[Number One]

garages are NEVER big enough.

True that! We have a double garage and while there are only 6 bikes in there...guess where the car spends all it's time...

[Str8 Jacket]

Have you got room on the lawn where you could put an old lock up container for bikes and bits..if not, what about one of those aluminium sheds that you can get from Mitre 10 or The Warehouse.
You can get heaps of stuff in those sheds and they are reasonably weatherproof.

Unfortunately not really. I live in a block of 6 flats and have already taken over one of the sheds and permanently got a broken down A100 parked up as well. We are looking for a new flat but there isnt much around in our price range witha garage :(

[Xaria]

I know the feeling. Our spare bedroom is pretty much dedicated to bike gear. The bikes live outside under waterproof covers, but it won't be long until they go away to a friends shed for the winter :weep:
People are coming over tonight and I cant decide whether to just close the spare room or padlock it as well.

[sAsLEX]

Carbs in the Dining room.

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[ajturbo]

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what's under the sheet???

[sAsLEX]

what's under the sheet???

600 RR

[Pussy]

In answer to the topic of the thread... I couldn't cope without the double garage. We only keep the two bikes in the garage, plus all sorts of assorted stuff. If you've seen photos of Hiroshima right after the bomb went off, that's about how our garage looks at the moment. I know of one winter job coming up

[FROSTY]

Maybee one of those storage units you rent out fer yer household stuff.
Me I couldn't do the no gargre bit.
Time for a new flat WITH a carport or gargre

[Trudes]

I'll keep my eyes open for a place with garage in Newlands for ya. You know you want to move closer to me and Nige, and be a Newlands Elite, Malcolm just needs a little "convincing" that's all!!:wari:

[Str8 Jacket]

I'll keep my eyes open for a place with garage in Newlands for ya. You know you want to move closer to me and Nige, and be a Newlands Elite, Malcolm just needs a little "convincing" that's all!!:wari:

I would love to but Malcolm works in Upper Hutt and I work in town so Lower Hutt/ Petone area is our compromise! :yes:

[popelli]

Have you got room on the lawn where you could put an old lock up container for bikes and bits.

sounds a great idea - have done it myself but they are not ventilated very well and everything will sweat inside a container

will **** your alloy cost me a fortune as I ended up having to take all the alloy parts off the bike and get them chromed

[Coyote]

Kick the bum out! :bleh:

[Number One]

You know you want to move closer to me and Nige, and be a Newlands Elite

AND us Monsters too...as for this Newlands Elite thingame...I'm into inclusion not exclusion and if you ask me "Norf Welly Massif" is where it's really all at :bleh:

PM me a price range that would be of interest

[Str8 Jacket]

Kick the bum out! :bleh:

HELL NO! Its one fine arse! :drool: Anyway, he pays half the rent!

[McDuck]

I am having to store the 400 at a friends place sniff sniff. anybody in napier want a border? Preferabley in taradale and with a garage?

[Coyote]

HELL NO! Its one fine arse! :drool: Anyway, he pays half the rent!
EEEWWWWW!!!

So you in it for the money huh? :laugh:

One thing I haven't got to worry about my girlfriend. I haven't got any money :p

[Str8 Jacket]

EEEWWWWW!!!

So you in it for the money huh? :laugh:

One thing I haven't got to worry about my girlfriend. I haven't got any money :p

Yep, im definately in it for the money. How did ya know?!

[Coyote]

Yep, im definately in it for the money. How did ya know?!
I didn't, you just said so :wari:

[Trudes]

AND us Monsters too...as for this Newlands Elite thingame...I'm into inclusion not exclusion and if you ask me "Norf Welly Massif" is where it's really all at :bleh:

PM me a price range that would be of interest

oh yes, and the Monsters...
And the Elite do include!! There was an open invite to all to come to the Elite Meeting a few weeks ago, not our fault you guys chocse to ignore us!!:mellow: :bleh:
But yeah "Norf Welly Massif" are even more exclusive.... invite only from what I've been told.

[Swoop]

"Junk" (whatever that is) will expand to fill any space provided for it.
A commonly known law of gargre's and sheds.

[Ixion]

OI !:Oi:. You've been talking to Mrs Ixion, haven't you? . It's *not* junk. It is all VERY USEFUL VALUABLE stuff. Yes, even the stuff that I don't know what it is.

[roadracingoldfart]

A very simple solution would be like this .....
Humans move into the small shed to sleep and (Ahemm) whatever you do with a "nice arse" .
And bikes and tools and stuff move into the flat so as the natural spreading out method can be applied without cramping progress.

Only hassle i can see is you have to leave a narrow track between what is now the garage door and the dunny . Otherwise i can see no problems adapting.




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[madbikeboy]

Like parkinson's law, where a project will expand to the time alloted for it, garages do the same.

I have a reasonable garage, it's full (the POS company cage sits outside, at least for another 3 weeks until my garden leave finishes...). Garages are not for cars, they're for storage of my precccciooooooooooussssssssss.

I also have space in another garage, but it's not actually a garage, it's like the ultimate bloke space with every tool that could ever be useful. It's also very safe, what with the nice little doggie, and the even nicer gentleman who lives there with his shotgun collection. But, that's out of space as well.

I'm rennovating the loveshack, and as soon as my house is nicely finished, the gixer will be living inside where it's nice and warm, resting apon nice polished floors. Bliss.

So, in answer to your question, I can live without air, world peace, and with Uncle Helen (fucktard), but I couldn't live without bike storage.

[twotyred]

It doesn't matter, I have a huge garage and there is still junk everywhere, garages are NEVER big enough.

This is very true,the more space you have,the more 'junk' you will collect...:whistle:

[Str8 Jacket]

This is very true,the more space you have,the more 'junk' you will collect...:whistle:

One thing that I have learnt since I started bucket racing is that nothing is junk! You may need it one day.....

[Trudes]

Another magpie.....

[Sully60]

Another magpie.....

Ha! The pot calling the kettle black and white.:shutup:

[Biggles2000]

There are two constants in the universe, 1 you can't travel faster than the speed of light, 2 you will never have enough garage space.

I have garaging for 4 vehicles and its not enough. The 2 outside are for vehicle storage. The inside 2 are my workshop. The wifes 4wd and the company car live outside.

[Biggles2000]

Man the southerly has just come through here and its dropped 10 deg and raining hard.

[FruitLooPs]

I have a double garage with my flatmate, my car lives outside my bikes in bits where my car should be and ..

*shakes fist at engine*

Never enough room I say, i've also got two sets of carbs dismantled on the floor now too.
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[NC]

I leave stuff at peoples houses:whistle:

[Dak]

I have a double garage with my flatmate, my car lives outside my bikes in bits where my car should be and ..

*shakes fist at engine*

Never enough room I say, i've also got two sets of carbs dismantled on the floor now too.
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Mwaaah, that conrod in the front of the pic with no piston attached looks "interesting"

[Timber020]

When we looked out houses I just wanted a double garage and room to get my truck in the driveway.

We came to look at this place with the agent, I went into the garage and said "yeah this will do".
The agent asked "dont you want to look upstairs?"
I wasnt really bothered as I figured it would have a roof, rooms, toilet etc, the wife on the other hand thought it was important so I did go up and have a quick look. Then went back down to see if I could fit everything in.

[koba]

A very simple solution would be like this .....
Humans move into the small shed to sleep and (Ahemm) whatever you do with a "nice arse" .
And bikes and tools and stuff move into the flat so as the natural spreading out method can be applied without cramping progress.

Only hassle i can see is you have to leave a narrow track between what is now the garage door and the dunny . Otherwise i can see no problems adapting.
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Fucken pain getting stuff up the stairs!

Yeah, it is an upstairs flat which is a real pain, esp when we had to have the pitbike in the lounge!
We even tried to get the h100 up the stairs but couldn't get it around the first landing...