[skyst3alth]

This place was a dump when I first moved in, random stuff just nailed to the wall, this hideous fake wood wallpaper, crap everywhere. Spent about a week or two ripping most of the stuff out, painting, building the bench, putting up more lights and getting all the stuff setup. Pretty good now, I need to build a bike rack somewhere, or setup hooks.

 

[Transcend]

Now THAT'S how you do it. Do you now own stock in Park?

I need to get some of those plastic shelving units. I think I will be off to Canadian Tire or Costco in search of these today.

 

[skyst3alth]

I've been dying to get the truing stand and headset press for a while, finally bit the bullet and picked them up the other day, makes life so much easier.

I got those shelves at Home Depot, if they have one in your area. I think it was like $35US apiece? Totally worth it.

 

[Biscuit]

This place was a dump when I first moved in, random stuff just nailed to the wall, this hideous fake wood wallpaper, crap everywhere. Spent about a week or two ripping most of the stuff out, painting, building the bench, putting up more lights and getting all the stuff setup. Pretty good now, I need to build a bike rack somewhere, or setup hooks.

If I played darts in your house I'd be buying you new tires..

 

[Kornphlake]

Costco used to have some really nice chrome wire shelving units for about $70 a piece, unless you are dead set on the plastic shelving I'd get the wire shelving, they won't sag in the middle if you leave something heavy on them for a long time like the plastic will, they come with wheels too so you can scoot the shelves around your shop if you need to rearrange once in a while.

 

[peter6061]

I think these pics have been posted before, but not much has changed other than more stuff being piled on my bench. Some of the bikes have changed over the years, but it basically looks the same. I still need to put in MUCH better lighting...

 

[Pegboy]

I will second the chrome shelving over plastic for the exact reason that Kornphlake stated. I believe I picked ours up at Home Depot for $40 or less. You can load a lot of weight on them and they are sturdy.

 

[Transcend]

Sweet, I'll take a look this evening and see if i can find anything that will fit height wise.

 

[John P.]

Here are a few of my setup. I put a garage/loft addition on the house about 4 or 5 years ago, and I pretty much built the whole thing around a shop and workspace. It's kind of a mess, but I do get a lot of use out of it.

I put in this roll-up door so I could get my dirtbike in more easily:

I use the chainsaw for cutting cables and housing :

That would be my Halloween costume (Robot Ron) on top of the cabinet:

It was an utter b!tch mounting all these hoists across the ceiling:

 

[stiksandstones]

April Lawyer posters always seem to add some flair...

Or maybe one of those new Sam Hill sitting in the pits not racing posters would be cool

 

[jonKranked]

john p - that is an awesome setup. i'd love to have something like that.

 

[John P.]

john p - that is an awesome setup. i'd love to have something like that.

Thanks bro! I'm not sure it did anything at all positive for the re-sale value of my house, but I love it (sort of like the bathroom I coverted into a locker room .

 

[James]

Finally have a garage to call my own. Two car garage, I choose to park mine outside, so I can have my bikes setup in there. Still need to get my bike storage settled, was thinking about hooks, but I have a fair number of carbon wheels, and I don't really want to hang the bikes by them.

Yeah, it's a wreck right now, I decided to spread just about all my junk out so I could organize it a little better, but knee surgery has interfered.

The benches were $50 at CostCo, really stoked with them.

On of my favorite parts of the setup, an Apple HiFi. Target was closing those out a while back, got mine for $88, down from $350! Couldn't say no.

And yes, there is a little sofa back there somewhere, right now it's propping up the majority of the rigs.

Peg board to mount the tools on the wall is the next step, when I'm finally able to stand for more than 5 minutes...

JJames

 

[FCLinder]

A few shots.

 

[J]

All these shop areas lack one key ingredient as far as I can see. A fridge.

Mines got a fridge, a bed, a school desk, dresser and closet! Fridge is only full of the cheapest/largest quantity beer though. The rest goes to food and bike parts.

 

[Rye_Bread]

i love college

 

[big-ted]

Mines got a fridge, a bed, a school desk, dresser and closet! Fridge is only full of the cheapest/largest quantity beer though. The rest goes to food and bike parts.

lol! Yeah, my room looked pretty much like that when I was an undergrad.

Now my "shop" consists of a shed that my landlord had the wisdom to vent the tumble dryer into, so everytime someone dries their laundry my bikes get wet...

 

[beaverbiker]

Mines got a fridge, a bed, a school desk, dresser and closet! Fridge is only full of the cheapest/largest quantity beer though. The rest goes to food and bike parts.

you live in stoner glenn?

 

[Transcend]

John, you win the award for cleanest, most organized shop, that's for damn sure. Nice. I wish i had room to hoist bikes...i don't think you could even stand up in my shop.

 

[bizutch]

I'm gonna take a pic of my "shop" so you can laugh at hillbilly mechanics. I've got a shed leftover on my lot from the old homeplace that is leaning and has busted out windows. A Wren (that's a bird) has a huge nest in a stack of tires. No electrical yet.

 

[Transcend]

I'm gonna take a pic of my "shop" so you can laugh at hillbilly mechanics. I've got a shed leftover on my lot from the old homeplace that is leaning and has busted out windows. A Wren (that's a bird) has a huge nest in a stack of tires. No electrical yet.

I have a basement room I can barely stand up in.

 

[J]

you live in stoner glenn?

Haha yep. Can't wait to get out. Living at Mustang 2 next year. Not much better but at least I'll have a kitchen and living room. Are you goin to Poly, or a grad?

 

[Biscuit]

Mines got a fridge, a bed, a school desk, dresser and closet! Fridge is only full of the cheapest/largest quantity beer though. The rest goes to food and bike parts.

Damn! Those pictures bring back memories. I lived there too and my room looked pretty much identical. Forgot how much it sucked.

You really take that place for granted though. I kinda miss being able to spill a beer/soup/chain-lube/whatever on the floor and not care (or be able to tell for that matter).

 

[bizutch]

I have a basement room I can barely stand up in.

I believe that is refered to as a crawlspace.

 

[Zach Dank]

Mine is a three in one. Fix bikes, lift weights, train MMA with the homies. It's rad. I tried to use photomerge, but didn't work so well.

 

[Jensen]

my home/office/shop. isnt college wonderful

 

[AlmostHeaven]

how are people able to afford a V10 like that in college?
wish my parents were that nice....

Yo Zach Dank - hows about firing that spare Fox 40 over my way...?

 

[Zach Dank]

Yo Zach Dank - hows about firing that spare Fox 40 over my way...?

Haha. You don't want that. That fork is valved for the ultra massive hucks.

 

[Acadian]

Haha. You don't want that. That fork is valved for the ultra massive hucks.

same damping as that punching bag?

 

[Zach Dank]

same damping as that punching bag?

Pretty much.

 

[Rye_Bread]

how are people able to afford a V10 like that in college?
wish my parents were that nice....

i have more money now than I did before college, no other expenses dude, no car etc...

 

[Jensen]

how are people able to afford a V10 like that in college?
wish my parents were that nice....

Yo Zach Dank - hows about firing that spare Fox 40 over my way...?

parents? HAHA. i can afford that b/c i busted my ass working all through high school. parents didnt buy a single part on that baby or my bullit. wish they did though

 

[sayndesyn]

Looks like you might find that V-10 on top of you on a drunken night. Not saying it's a bad thing. I'd hit it..

 

[OGRipper]

I tried to use photomerge, but didn't work so well.

Is that a top secret TOP with a gearbox? :biggrin:

Sweet set up for sure. Is that a second 36 for DJ on the shelf? 'Cuz if you're not using it...

 

[oly]

The work side....



full 360

 

[Kornphlake]

how are people able to afford a V10 like that in college?
wish my parents were that nice....

Yo Zach Dank - hows about firing that spare Fox 40 over my way...?

Pell grants excess checks and Stafford loans paid for the last two bikes I've bought. I haven't bought a new bike since I graduated in '03

 

[davep]

Nice, that sims 1710 blade was the first board I ever owned.

 

[dan wask]

A few shots.

Your repsol honda is amazing. I want it.

 

[DH Diva]

I don't have pics but my work shop has a couple of really neato features. It was originally a single car detattched garage. We extended it out the back and created a seperate bike room for the MTB and dirt bikes. It has locking solid wood/stainless clad pocket doors (salvaged from an old furniture store). So when the main door is up, you can't see the good stuff inside from the street. Also, we built a bike shop style double high rack system on one side that fits about 10 bikes total. And we can fit 3 (4 if we squeeze) dirt bikes along the other side of the "bike room."

We built a storage loft above half of the garage, and built storage shelves and a work bench down one side of the main room of the shop. The main area is mostly just tools and work space for bikes and vehicles. The work bench was also built with a sheet metal top for super durability. We are planning on putting in a sink for washing up and saftey reasons.

We stashed the air compressor in the loft to reduce noise and also put in pull down hoses. Oh, and we installed a natural gas heating furnace so it's nice and toasty in the winter months.

I love my work shop!

 

[beaverbiker]

Haha yep. Can't wait to get out. Living at Mustang 2 next year. Not much better but at least I'll have a kitchen and living room. Are you goin to Poly, or a grad?

grad. i lived in los osos most of the time. wwwaaayyy better than anywhere near campus.