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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby garagegoon on Sun May 13, 2012 9:45 am

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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby red_beard13 on Sun May 13, 2012 10:46 pm

oh cool! Love the old work truck! 8)
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby aka_locojoe on Mon May 14, 2012 6:58 am

@garagegoon your shop hardly looks big enough to fit a bike. I assume you have to stand on the covered porch while working on them :lol:
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby garagegoon on Mon May 14, 2012 8:24 am

aka_locojoe wrote:@garagegoon your shop hardly looks big enough to fit a bike. I assume you have to stand on the covered porch while working on them :lol:



I sit indian style inside and polish one part at a time then assemble under covered porch.... :D
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby Buck Masterson on Mon May 14, 2012 1:17 pm

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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby expjawa on Tue May 15, 2012 9:48 am

Mine's hard to capture in a pic or two, since the room is kinda small and I can't get close enough to any wall to get a decent wide angle shot. So I'll have to do it in a few.
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby Skipton on Tue May 15, 2012 11:39 am

Let Do This!...Bikes!.... World Headquarters..... Also know as my basement :wink: :roll:


The Shop got very dirty and unorganized.
What it looked like in December....

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What it looks like today.. still some organizing and cleaning to do but at least I have space to think :wink: now.
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Postby largek9 on Tue May 15, 2012 3:46 pm

[quote="Skipton"][b]Let Do This!...Bikes!.... World Headquarters..... Also know as my basement :wink: :roll:

Man you guys up north got it made with BASMENTS ! :( :( Skipton thats nice just looks bike kozy :) , I bet the Arm pickers Mike and Frank would love that Gulf sign!
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby Skipton on Thu May 17, 2012 11:51 pm

largek9,

Thanks man!
Yep us Midwesterners have to deal with winter, But we do get to have our basement's :mrgreen:
I do love the Gulf sign, I got it 20 years ago cheap!
When my wife and I started dating it was in my living room, My whole apartment wasn't much bigger then the sign. :roll:

Get married sign goes in the work shop. :shock: :? :roll: :wink: :D :lol:
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby Buck Masterson on Fri May 18, 2012 6:44 am

I had a really, really nice basement, but then my two teenage sons discovered it.
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby expjawa on Fri May 18, 2012 7:14 am

My basement is only under the front half of the house, since the original crawlspace is only inside the original foundation. Over the past 150 years, though, the house has been added on to multiple times, and none of the additions included added basement. Since it originally only had a crawl space, it never had a proper interior entrance or stairs. There's a trap door in the floor of one of the closets (so I can't easily carry a bike down there that way). There is a set of exterior bilco doors though.

The crawlspace was dug down twice, resulting in my outside basement door being 8" above the floor and walls that are layed-up stone on top, with poured concrete on the bottom. But that makes the shelf that runs all the way around the room, which I was able to set my pegboard frame onto. It also proved to be a handy height to match with my work bench, so it effectively increases the bench space. But I loose about a quarter of the total space to the furnace and two hot water tanks. So, I've been working hard to try to use the space as efficiently as possible...
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby Bigdaddy772 on Thu May 24, 2012 5:50 pm

My little quiet place it's almost a two car garage a couple hundred feet away from the main house.. The wifey has graciously let me have as man land as she calls it.... I can make as much racket as I want out there and not disturb the fam with my music and grinding. :mrgreen:
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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby dougfisk on Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:06 pm

This is where it all happens... in the driveway! :shock: The weather is nice in AZ. I spent the day today right where you are looking... high of 107 degrees. :D Oh, and what is this thing you call a "basement"? :?

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Re: Lets see your bicycle work spaces!

Postby red_beard13 on Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:28 pm

HA! Its awesome to live and work in the great heat of our lovely city! But in Mesa my brother actually has a basement. lol
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