Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Bike storage solutions

[Ken Lewis (kenlewisjr]

I live in a 34 unit community. We built seven open-front bike sheds that
have been placed in different spots throughout our community along the
walking paths. (With that number, we're definitely not using all of the bike
sheds.) This, of course, makes it convenient for the folks living in
different parts of the community. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures
at the moment but I may be able to get some to you. The design is fairly
simple and includes a bar for locking bikes to.

I hope that's helpful.

Ken
Nevada City Cohousing (California)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Sheldon [mailto:karen.sheldon [at] gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:53 AM
> To: Cohousing-L
> Subject: [C-L]_ Bike storage solutions
> 
> Him
> 
> I live at Bellingham Cohousing in Bellingham WA.  Altho our original
> plans called for bicycle storage, it hasn't been built in the 7 years of
> our existence.  I'm interested in comments/designs/photos of your
> community's bike storage area.  Whatever you have to send me is great!
> We're just beginning to get really serious about this.  We've just had a
> big laundry room renovation that has (of course) run over budget, so we
> want to keep this simple and inexpensive, with our interested members
> doing as much of the building as possible. We have about 40 bikes that
> currently live in various garages, on porches, in bedrooms, etc. We've
> discussed hanging and pulley systems and have a few that must be on the
> ground, including an electric bike and a couple of kid carriers. We have
> the usual group that wants the storage facility vs the group that thinks
> it's ok the way it has always been (they usually have their own garages
> or don' have bikes!). Meetings, proposals, consensus, when will it end!?
> 
> Much thanks in advance,
> 
> Karen
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