where to stash bikes

[UK Pete]

my wife asked me why i was cheking the joist positions in the front room ceiling

[JamesH]

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

Pete
I take it you are now on your own frack me man your pushing it now
Salute you if you don't mind making yer dinna and doing yer washing
If I did that I would be literally on my bike
Cheers
Bitsa

[tom400f]

That's not the worst part.... he sprayed it there too 

[AshimotoK0]

To us guys that frame's a work of art probably itself worth a grand. No one would complain if you hung a 1k work of art on the wall or ceiling. Compared with  the sh*te the likes of Tracy Emin calls art then your 'work of art' justifies hanging from the ceiling of my house any day Pete.  Your wife's probably like mine ... she gave up years ago on complaining about bike related stuff as she knows I will never change. Just uses it as 'play' script fodder.

[Trigger]

What a nice looking chandelier you have Pete

[K2-K6]

That made me laugh Pete, you know when you start putting in more joists it's getting really bad.

You're so right Ash about art, there is such a load of rubbish hoiked around as if it has some value. I hate those "sculptures" made up out of old bits of machine parts held together with pigeon-shite welding and sold to people as creative.

I saw some old squashed air-con trunking that somebody had got out of a skip and hung from the ceiling with wire in the Tate modern gallery last year, which they said was art!

I think proper welding is pure art, it has form/function and looks fabulous. Thinking of things like Formula 1 exhausts as an example.

Bit soap-boxy there, sorry for that.

[matthewmosse]

Inspirational. I thought I was out of room and would have to sell a few projects, or build another shed.

[RGP750]

I just got "Don't even go there" from Linda

[Robbie Honda]

my wife knows about the 5 bikes I have in the shed
she has not a clue about the srx600  I have in the attic
i was looking recently there is alot of room under the kids beds lol

[matthewmosse]

My wife instuted a strict 1 in 1 out policy at 12 bikes, she doesn't know about the rest. To be honest I don't actually know how many I have without thinking hard about it. I try to claim it is only 6 bikes, and a few spares, just some of the spare parts have log books and frames. I will concede the BMWs are superfluous.

[Green1]

I share the bedroom with a box of HM341's trouble is I wake up next to a box that resembles a coffin.
Guy Martin bought a bike purely because he fell in love with the welds on it.
Mick

[Trigger]

Mick, those HM341's can share my bedroom if you want

[matthewmosse]

Some of the welds on classic era jap bikes can be shocking, I briefly had a gp100 from a scrapper. Close examination showed it had such bad undercut in the welds the rear torqe arm had pulled off it's mount to the swing arm - probably weakened by rust admittedly. Suffice it to say it wound up in the scrap pile.

[UK Pete]

The welding on my Rickmans is an absolute joy to look at, the welding on my sandcast is the worst i have seen on a motorbike made in a factory