CyclingTips - Latest Comments in The Ultimate Bike Room

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

felocity — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:01:05 -0000

Obviously NO children for this household!!!!!
Come on people - join the real world-
Those with children are lucky to get on their windtrainer for 1 hour while the 'little darlings' occupy themselves without those immortal words -muuuuum where are you??? ( sitting in the same room) muuum can I have a drink- sandwich- chocolate-??? ( having just been given something to eat and drink) and my personal favourite muuuum what will happen if i stick Barbie, Batman, my hand or my head into the spinning rear wheel on the roller???(despite repeated pleas to move away).
Aaah children - wouldn't have life any other way!!!

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Bike Room Guy's Wife — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:40:28 -0000

The Belgian jersey is a signed gift from Eddie and Axel. Bike Room guy is all Canadian... besides even Belgians get more road time than Canadians so they don't need this kind of set -up.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

HICK RICCO — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:06:53 -0000

Belgian National Jersey??

Axel Merckx?

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Mack — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:40 -0000

I see an Alberta Provincial Champion jersey, an Alberta provincial project jersey, canadian national team jersey circa 2003. Your buddy is probably someone of some esteem living in Edmonton or Calgary I would imagine? I likely race on the circuit with him, I just can't really put my finger on who it is.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

MonsTher — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:43:27 -0000

ohh... Do you think I will be able to hide a bike room like that from my future husband?! Definitely gonna build one..

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

shane — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:07:25 -0000

thanks for the plug for the site. yeah, Team RaceDayRush.com is out busting our asses trying to get podium placements while fully cammed out.

We are running high end Sony HD cams using DivX compression.

Some good ol' fashioned Canadian Shield up there. Wanna try something different, try an adventure race....you'll need a tredmill along with your bike.....

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

cyclingtips — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:52:40 -0000

Heaps of tools neatly tucked away in the red
toolbox (see blurry photo). Unlike me, the tools are nicely organized and put away after use!

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The Boz — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:07:11 -0000

Where are all the bike maintenance and repair tools ?

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Tom — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:08:14 -0000

Ahhh...a cyclist's sanctuary. This just raised the bar and probably cost me $20k in renovations. Thanks a lot!

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Peter — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:07:04 -0000

I think he needs a nice comfy couch in there!

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cyclingtips — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:09:04 -0000

In general agree. I'm not overly familiar with bike prices here in Aus (since haven't bought a bike in a while). Here's a pic of a bike I saw back in Canada last month at a shop. A top end fully spec'd out bike for $10k CAD (dura ace, zipp 303, etc)

http://www.cyclingtipsblog....

What would the Aussie price be for this? I'm guessing $13k AUD? With exchange rate and 5% GST (not shown) this bike would equate to approx $11,750 AUD.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Kor — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:30:42 -0000

That car without the boom box and a couple of racks is perfect.
I've been using it for over a year for all sorts of cycling trips/racing.
The back seats go down easily for all your gear. My bike fits inside easily if you need to lock it away etc.
And the grunt gets you nicely warmed up for the race.
Station wagon is overkill IMO.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Tommy P — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:24:27 -0000

Worked PT for an engineering firm in my university days and we used a large conveyor belt that was left over from a leather factory refit. About 8m long x 3m wide. Set it up in the workshop at a 2-3 degree angle and two of us could ride side by side, front behind, swap turns etc.. It needed 3 phase power though. Probably could have been modified with a washing machine motor... etc

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

expat — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:31:13 -0000

It also helps living in a country or close to a country where bike goods are a lot cheaper. I was back home in Australia recently and was blown away at the prices of certain goods. No wonder most people order from overseas.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

cyclingtips — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:00:25 -0000

Thanks "Bike Room Guy's Wife". I did notice your shoe collection and happened to get a few photos. There's a blog post brewing as we speak.

Oh, and you are stunning as ukalipt guessed. I thought that may have been your comment...

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Bike Room Guy's Wife — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:31 -0000

To clarify, the bike room has a separate staircase and its not hidden behind a book case. You have to walk past my shoe collection to get there. And the treadmill is mostly so our little kids can shoot them selves off the end (ideas from the OK-Go video). Thanks for all the posts. Its been fun to share with you.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Whopper — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:35:26 -0000

Oooh grreat, now I'm feeling guilty. Looks like its time to clean & tidy my little workshop on the weekend.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

cyclingtips — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:51:24 -0000

Nope - not SB!

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Tony R — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:40:32 -0000

Hide the wife behind the book case, then he could use the hole house as his bike room.

Don't we all wish we had a room like that

Now, you have not told us his name, S.B.?

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

ukalipt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:13:59 -0000

i bet his wife is a stunner as well.
some people

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Groover — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:12:59 -0000

Makes our bike room look like the poor house ... drool! Then again - we can ride on the road all year round :-)

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cyclingtips — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:06:39 -0000

Thanks Mark. Fixed!

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

cyclingtips — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:53:59 -0000

Indeed - no bike racks or room in the boot with that big bass box hiding in there.

Someone mentioned that a good post would be to talk about cycling friendly cars. Feel free to send in suggestions and I'll start looking for car sponsors to sway my opinion ;-)

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

Marchello — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:50:11 -0000

Awesome room!! I agree with JL - a very mean post! :)

The only problem that I see is that the car is not very bike friendly.

Re: The Ultimate Bike Room

sm — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:45:21 -0000

Awesome..