Is your garage your happy place?

[Gregor]

Mine’s too bastard cold the time of year.



I’m happier in the cellar

[Mr. Dazzle]

Nah not really.

It's tempting to think of myself as someone who likes fiddling with bikes and cars and whatever, but I've come to realise I'm basically not

If you'd asked me in the past I'd have said I am, but as above, I'm not.

My garage is also too small for the number of bikes I've got, which means I'm always climbing over/squeezing past stuff, which is just annoying

Plan to address at least some of that and offload a few in 2024.

[Skub]

Nah not really.

It's tempting to think of myself as someone who likes fiddling with bikes and cars and whatever, but I've come to realise I'm basically not

If you'd asked me in the past I'd have said I am, but as above, I'm not.

My garage is also too small for the number of bikes I've got, which means I'm always climbing over/squeezing past stuff, which is just annoying

Plan to address at least some of that and offload a few in 2024.

That's a deal breaker for me. Unless I have some cat swinging room,I won't work on anything.

[Count Steer]

Nah not really.

It's tempting to think of myself as someone who likes fiddling with bikes and cars and whatever, but I've come to realise I'm basically not .

I came to that same realisation when fiddling with them ceased to be a necessity and I could pay someone to do it. I can spanner, but I'd really rather not.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I enjoy working on old bikes, but I'd rather ride new bikes.
TBH I'm not sure I can be arsed to work on anything which hasn't got a roller bearing crank.

[Druid]

Nah not really.

It's tempting to think of myself as someone who likes fiddling with bikes and cars and whatever, but I've come to realise I'm basically not

If you'd asked me in the past I'd have said I am, but as above, I'm not.

My garage is also too small for the number of bikes I've got, which means I'm always climbing over/squeezing past stuff, which is just annoying

Plan to address at least some of that and offload a few in 2024.

That's the wrong approach. You need a bigger garage, not fewer bikes.

We moved to our current house 15 years ago, it was the first time I'd had a garage and I loved having an indoor space to work on the bike.



However, there's an old saying that the amount of stuff you have expands to fill the space available and that's certainly true of my garage



I really need a double garage...

[mangocrazy]

Nah not really.

It's tempting to think of myself as someone who likes fiddling with bikes and cars and whatever, but I've come to realise I'm basically not .

I came to that same realisation when fiddling with them ceased to be a necessity and I could pay someone to do it. I can spanner, but I'd really rather not.

I feel that way about cars, but bikes are so much easier to work on than cars. You don't have to crawl underneath them and (relatively speaking) everything is accessible. On the odd occasion I have been known to hand a bike over to a dealer for a job, but it's either because I'm all out of ideas to fix a problem or it's a job I really don't fancy doing (the belts on my 888 Ducati, for instance). Everything else I do myself.

[Mr. Dazzle]

My 'problem' is more fundamental

I don't actually enjoy the spannering part that much. Once I know what needs doing it's usually an effort to finish it without losing interest. Just bloody leg work innit?

Think it was Iccy who referenced the fixer/inventor spectrum. I'm definitely down the far RH of that particular one

[Skub]

I really need a double garage...

The reg plate shold be 999 RTA.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Me auld Viffer is that plate.

Could never work out if it was a curse or a charm.

I did melt the A off with the high level exhaust Druid fitted though.

[KungFooBob]

While we're discussing garages...

Anyone got a leccy roller door?

How secure are they, do the lock at the bottom somehow to stop you levering then open?

[Yorick]

While we're discussing garages...

Anyone got a leccy roller door?

How secure are they, do the lock at the bottom somehow to stop you levering then open?

We had a leccy up and over door in UK. I put sliding bolts on bottom of each side,, into wooden frame uprights.

[KungFooBob]

While we're discussing garages...

Anyone got a leccy roller door?

How secure are they, do the lock at the bottom somehow to stop you levering then open?

We had a leccy up and over door in UK. I put sliding bolts on bottom of each side,, into wooden frame uprights.

Yeah, but what's the point of having a leccy door if you've got to manually do the bolts?

I want my cake and to eat it.

[Mr. Dazzle]

While we're discussing garages...

Anyone got a leccy roller door?

How secure are they, do the lock at the bottom somehow to stop you levering then open?

My rentals have got a double width powered roller door on their garage, t'was fitted a few years ago to replace the previous twin up and over doors. Needed pillars taking out, steel frames adding etc.

Anywhooo....yeah its got automatically operating dead bolts at the bottom.

[Yorick]

While we're discussing garages...

Anyone got a leccy roller door?

How secure are they, do the lock at the bottom somehow to stop you levering then open?

We had a leccy up and over door in UK. I put sliding bolts on bottom of each side,, into wooden frame uprights.

Yeah, but what's the point of having a leccy door if you've got to manually do the bolts?

I want my cake and to eat it.

I only locked it if we went on holiday.

[KungFooBob]

I've got wooden outward opening side hinged doors.

I suppose I could ask my mate Steve, he was a Garolla franchise for a couple of years, but that would mean having to talk to a real person.

I like the idea of leccy dead bolts.

[Count Steer]

My 'problem' is more fundamental

I don't actually enjoy the spannering part that much. Once I know what needs doing it's usually an effort to finish it without losing interest. Just bloody leg work innit?

Think it was Iccy who referenced the fixer/inventor spectrum. I'm definitely down the far RH of that particular one

We are soul mates. I can do it if I have to and for years I had to if I wanted to stay mobile, but after being cold, with grazed knuckles and having shares in Swarfega - that for a game of soldiers.

The last two jobs I did on vehicles/bikes (other than changing wheels/batteries on cars) were changing the battery on an 1150GS...which involved removing the tank and, before that laying on my back under an old Land Rover replacing the alternator or starter motor (can't remember) after I'd fritzed it by connecting the battery the wrong way round (it was reimported from Africa and was +ve earth ).

However, I have become fascinated by woodworking posts on IG so I could imagine a nice warm workshop with lots of expensive kit in it making wooden things.

[Skub]

However, I have become fascinated by woodworking posts on IG so I could imagine a nice warm workshop with lots of expensive kit in it making wooden things.

That's what Muz does now. He makes some nice stuff.

Link if you have f/b.
https://www.facebook.com/Woodsmithery

[Count Steer]

However, I have become fascinated by woodworking posts on IG so I could imagine a nice warm workshop with lots of expensive kit in it making wooden things.

That's what Muz does now. He makes some nice stuff.

Link if you have f/b.
https://www.facebook.com/Woodsmithery

Yeah, I don't do FB (had an account once) and, tbh, I'm gradually withdrawing from IG, unfollowing a few per day. Probably end up just with YouTube and a couple of forums for hobbyist stuff.

[mangocrazy]

Think it was Iccy who referenced the fixer/inventor spectrum. I'm definitely down the far RH of that particular one

That confuses me a little. I do enjoy fixing/spannering things, but I also enjoy coming up with solutions and ideas to get round a problem. To me they are all part and parcel of the same thing.