How do you ride a bike if you live on a 3rd floor apartment?Do you just haul the bike up and down the stairs every time?Is there a way to safely store your bike at ground level?
be blessed enough to live in a building with an elevatoralternatively you can get a folding bike those are easier to lug up and down stairs. I would avoid keeping the bike outside your apartment if you care about the bike at all, someone is going to strip it for shit eventually
>>1889824just carry the bike you lazy shit
>>1889824This is one of those benefits of super light bikes that you wouldn't first notice on paper. What's wrong with carrying sub-20lbs up 3 flights of stairs? Yeah a 30-40lb shitter would suck more but even that's doable, would be better exercise than a sub-20lb road bike.>Do you just haul the bike up and down the stairs every time?I do but I only live 1.5 floors above ground level.>Is there a way to safely store your bike at ground level?My ex's apartment had a cool way to store bikes utilizing unused space under the staircases by installing a 3 bike rack under every staircase. She had a 35lb shitter and yeah I guess that would suck climbing 4 floors up to her apartment every day but that wouldn't be a problem if it was a 15lb superlight road bike
>>1889824>Is there a way to safely store your bike at ground level?Convince the building to install bike lockers. The kind that close individually and can be locked. Even then, I'd look into bike insurance and very carefully read the terms to make sure storing in a locker is covered.I'd never lock my bike in one, perfectly happy bringing it to my apartment, but I've thought about offering to go halfsies on a bike parking set-up with my building owner to maybe make it easier for the kids growing up in the building. See random bikes locked up to fences and stuff and the building owner already fucking hates it, so maybe they should do something about it.
I just carry 15kg all the way up.
Move to a first world country where the only theft is drunks stealing random shit as they walk home from a night out.
>>1889858if you think that's first world, I can't imagine the third world shithole you live in
>>1889860Why do you think OP want to store his bicycle in his apartment.Could it be... risk of theft? Risk of vandalization? Hoodlums ransacking courtyards that isn't walled off?
>>1889824to get to work everyday i have to carry my bike up and across a freeway ped bridge. Just shoulder it and go at your own pace.
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>>1889824>Is there a way to safely store your bike at ground level?Dedicated shared bike rooms or garages.
>>1889824Always make sure your bike is locked up next to at least one clearly more desireable bike. Camouflage your bike as a pile of junk and lock it close to something prone to theft.
>>1889824You carry it>but it's heavyJoke's on you for listening to shit for brains batavophiles who said "it's not a race so you need a bike that weighs at least 75 pounds"
>>1889824you can get shoulder support thingys
unicycles are even lighter and easy to tansport
>>1890040What is this gay shit? The only nuisance of carrying bikes on your shoulder is dirt on the diagonal tube if you ride in snow, mud or rain. Otherwise it's a non issue unless the bike is 30lbs+ or you are a tiny woman
>>1890134it came with a bike i bought and its cool so fuck you
>>1890142It's a solution looking for a problem and there is nothing cool about it but you do you anon
the sydney harbour bridge bike lane has these stairs at the north side. the nimby dipshits up there are against putting a ramp in because they think it will allow the wrong kind (poor) of people into their areathey don't seem to realise all the stairs keep out are cargo bikes and maybe older people who aren't strong and fit. they would be able to get deliveries from the cbd more easily and have more active and less socially isolated elders if there was a rampi'm the kind of dirtbag they want to keep out and i shouldered my bike down and up the stairs yesterday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>1889863>go at your own pace.You are truly an innovative biker. Any old biker can jam up a lane of cars, but you found a way to inconvenience even pedestrians.
>>1890274You aren't a real lycrafag until you've engendered a pensioner on a mixed use path
>>1889824You move to a country that has a safe, trustworthy society where people don't steal like animals-t lI eave my bike with a shitty cable lock attached to nothing but the wheel and the frame for over 10 years.
>>1890153ngl, if my city had those, I would ride the fuck out of that ramp, up and down, nonstop
>>1889824My bike is like 15 pounds it's easy to shoulder.
>>1889824carry it up the stairs; consider it your free gym membership
>>18908012 steep 4 me
>>1890153>nimby dipshits up there are against putting a ramp inhere is your ramp
>>1890274There's never anyone on it. It crosses a freeway with uninteresting sprawl on both sides. I actually have to worry about homeless people under the stairs because it's so abandoned.
>>1890238those are some nice stairs
>>1891068i am afraid to ask.is that concrete on top a plastic sheet?
>>1891068Is this the superior European bike infrastructure they keep talking about?
>>1892631>>1892632it is,another queer ramp
>>1891068>>1892829awesome, we can put a green line on the map now. another 30km of safe bike path added to the city!
>>1889858Only first world country where you could leave your bike in the open is Singapore or Saudi Arabia.Even Japan has a big bike theft problem.
>>1889824theres a few different tricks to itdont just push the bike up its not very efficienti like to take off the front wheel then turn the bike upside down and wheel it up in front of me with a finger on the rear brake for controli go down the stairs the other way round with the bike below me upside downif theres room i just ride down the stairs lol
>>1889865that looks like fun
>>1890119based>>1890153i would just ride up that thing lollooks like great fun>>1890238prettyidk if i could ride up that but id certainly try
>>1892631It’s probably cold mix asphalt
>>1889824Just pick up the bike noodle arms
>>1892631Seems like a temporary detour.
>>1893643And the cones suggest it was a failed attempt.
>>1889824I ride my bike up and down the parking garage and keep it in my apartment. Riding down the parking garage is pretty fun.
Automate a pulley throught your window/balconyYou aren't electronically illiterate aren't you?
>>1893715amazon sells ready-made winches, just gotta hook some trapeze mount to make the ascent stabler
>>1893715yknow ive been wondering if you could turn a bicycle drivetrain into a winch
>>1889824>he doesn't own a bike crane
...by using the elevator? I don't understand the problem. are people not allowed to bring bikes inside elevators where you live?
>>1893851This was my first thought. There was no way I was carrying up 9 stories.
>>1893882I used to live in a 13th floor and had to carry my steel beater up the stairs a couple of times when the power went outjust a bit of CX training, no biggie
>>1889842I have an E bike that weighs 80 pounds including the locks and I just pick it up and walk up the stairs
>>1893851Where I live most apartments are short and don't have elevators. If I lived on the 3rd floor I would never use my bicycle. Because like hell I'm hauling a bike up and down 3 flights of stairs any time I want to go out.
>>1894158something wrong with your health or just lazy?if you're already walking three floors up and down every day I don't see what's the big deal about adding ~10kg to it. free training!
>>1893946my old pig bike weighed 17 kgby the 400th step I wanted to kmsits great exercise
>>1894117if you have an ebike ca you just drive it up the stairs with the throttle?
>>1894229that would require a rather high degree of bike handlingebikers don't have that
>>1894387i dont mean on the bike lolbut that would be fuckin based
>>1889824one more reason i prefer an aluminum frame.or if your rich unob-titanium, al is better tho.
>>1894411good quality chromo steel is as light as alu tho
>>1894558lol no it's not>t. steelfag
>>1894562the difference is so small it doesnt matter lol
>>1894565matters alot. also having a 26"vs 27.5/29" frame helps alot too especially if on steel.
like my mountain porter buddy used to say: everything is training
>>1894718yeah smol wheels for lifei have a 29er rn and its the most unwieldy thing to ride and carry
>>1890153>i'm the kind of dirtbag they want to keep outnigger
>>1889824desu hauling the bike is a good warm upbut storing can be a problem. if you have no balcony in your apartment nor a proper bike-hook to store it vertically
>>1889824Put it on your fucking shoulder and carry it. What is wrong with you? Damn.
>>1895030i dont understand how people do thisi tried and it really hurt my shoulder and was really awkwardbut i am anorexic and have a huge mountainbike so maybe thats whyi just wheel my bike up
>>1889824i really want a fatbike so i can just ride up stairs lol
>>1889824I can ride up to 6 stairs on a bike but riding 3 stories is retarded. Are you retarded?
>this entire fucking threadHoly shit.Grab the bike from under the top tube with your right arm and swing it over your shoulder. How is this even a question? If it's more than 3 stories there's an elevator.I've never owned a bike that wasn't steel in my life but getting up 3 stories/random flights of stairs has never been a problem.
>>1889824Imagine not having an apartment building with a dedicated bike garage in the basement.
>>1900993I have one of those in my building but I am afraid some idiot will knock his BSO on my crabon frame and cause an invisible crack so I keep mine hanging from the wall in my entry way
>>1900994Just buy a real bike and not one made of glorified paper mache
>>1900998Working on that. I've been stuck on analysis paralysis for my second bike for a couple of years now. I can't decide if I want steel or ti or rim brakes or disc brakes or what.Meanwhile my plastic bike made of egg shells just werks.
>>1900998this
>>1890274cars slow down bikes not the other way round
>>1889824Your apt doesn't have a bike storage facility?
