At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards. But we have a patio in back which is a long skinny triangle which narrows down to 3' at one end and is 8' at the other end. I'd like to put a big shed at the 8' end but SWRTW wants to keep the area free for a table. So I was looking at these last night:
The High Shed, it will fit quite a few things but doesn't look too secure.
Short of designing and building my own shed does anyone have any suggestions for something similar to the above? I can't do much to the existing property as we are renting.
This is a shot from last night of the moon, Venus, Jupiter, and the star Spica from the patio:
Those are the tops of the 3000' Verdugos at the bottom of the photo, fortunately I don't have to ride over them if I ride to work. But if I have time on the way home I sure can.
At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards. But we have a patio in back which is a long skinny triangle which narrows down to 3' at one end and is 8' at the other end. I'd like to put a big shed at the 8' end but SWRTW wants to keep the area free for a table. So I was looking at these last night:
The High Shed, it will fit quite a few things but doesn't look too secure.
Short of designing and building my own shed does anyone have any suggestions for something similar to the above? I can't do much to the existing property as we are renting.
This is a shot from last night of the moon, Venus, Jupiter, and the star Spica from the patio:
Those are the tops of the 3000' Verdugos at the bottom of the photo, fortunately I don't have to ride over them if I ride to work. But if I have time on the way home I sure can.
At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards. But we have a patio in back which is a long skinny triangle which narrows down to 3' at one end and is 8' at the other end. I'd like to put a big shed at the 8' end but SWRTW wants to keep the area free for a table. So I was looking at these last night:
The High Shed, it will fit quite a few things but doesn't look too secure.
These are actually quite good. I use one in my backyard to store the pool supplies and it houses the A/V system for the outdoor sound. The doors are lockable with a padlock. While not the most secure thing in the world, no storage shed really is. You could bolt some right angle steel plates on the side and on the doors. Sort of like what they do in airplane cockpits. That would be relatively inexpensive and secure things enough.
Make sure you buy the sheds that are made out of recycled plastic. No need to waste resources.
At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards. But we have a patio in back which is a long skinny triangle which narrows down to 3' at one end and is 8' at the other end. I'd like to put a big shed at the 8' end but SWRTW wants to keep the area free for a table. So I was looking at these last night:
The High Shed, it will fit quite a few things but doesn't look too secure.
Short of designing and building my own shed does anyone have any suggestions for something similar to the above? I can't do much to the existing property as we are renting.
This is a shot from last night of the moon, Venus, Jupiter, and the star Spica from the patio:
Those are the tops of the 3000' Verdugos at the bottom of the photo, fortunately I don't have to ride over them if I ride to work. But if I have time on the way home I sure can.
Greg
I don't know anything bout the shed, but tha night pic is cool. I tried some night pix the other week, but they were way, way overexposed... looked like daytime.
for something similar to the above? I can't do much to the existing property as we are renting.
Maybe there's some way to wall off a slot of the 3' end without permanently-impacting the property? If so, that plus an access door and a hook in the ceiling would seem to be most space-saving option. -- PeteCresswell
Those are the tops of the 3000' Verdugos at the bottom of the photo, fortunately I don't have to ride over them if I ride to work. But if I
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time on the way home I sure can.
Greg
I don't know anything bout the shed, but tha night pic is cool. I tried some night pix the other week, but they were way, way overexposed... looked like daytime.
That shot is a composite of two. Both at ISO 400, 1/250 sec for the moon, and 1.6 seconds for Venus, Jupiter, and Spica.
I have a couple of downtown LA, too, but haven't looked at them yet. This winter when things are clearer downtown should look great.
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Hang um high.
Hmmm, that's an idea. It's got a patio roof with rafters, a couple of hooks and an eye bolt or two and I can lock them to the roof.
Greg
Problem with that is that it makes them visible even though they are locked. I have an 8x8 Keeter shed, assembly was easy and it fits together well but I wouldn't trust the door locking system to safely store my bike unless you add additional anti-theft stuff. Throw the boards in the shed (or elsewhere.....:-) and store the bikes inside.
Those are the tops of the 3000' Verdugos at the bottom of the photo, fortunately I don't have to ride over them if I ride to work. But if I
have
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time on the way home I sure can.
Greg
I don't know anything bout the shed, but tha night pic is cool. I tried some night pix the other week, but they were way, way overexposed... looked like daytime.
That shot is a composite of two. Both at ISO 400, 1/250 sec for the moon, and 1.6 seconds for Venus, Jupiter, and Spica.
I have a couple of downtown LA, too, but haven't looked at them yet. This winter when things are clearer downtown should look great.
Greg
I liked the photo too. It's my current desktop wallpaper.
At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards.
[censored], man, when we lived in Manhattan we had six bikes (plus Jimbo's unicycle) in the living room of a small one-bedroom apartment. It's all a matter of your priorities.
At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not much room inside for bikes and snowboards.
[censored], man, when we lived in Manhattan we had six bikes (plus Jimbo's unicycle) in the living room of a small one-bedroom apartment. It's all a matter of your priorities.
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But if one of your priorities is to maintain a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex who may not prioritize bikes like you do, I imagine it could get tricky.
But if one of your priorities is to maintain a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex who may not prioritize bikes like you do, I imagine it could get tricky.
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At our new place we have no garage, little external storage, and not
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room inside for bikes and snowboards.
[censored], man, when we lived in Manhattan we had six bikes (plus Jimbo's unicycle) in the living room of a small one-bedroom apartment. It's all a matter of your priorities.
Yeah, we've got the room inside and Kimberly ain't worried too much about clean summer bikes but I know I'm lazy after rides so in the winter I'd end up bringing a [censored] load of mud inside. My misplaced sense of responsibility to my landlord is the stumbling block there plus if I got any of that mud near our new sofa Kimberly wouldn't be so keen on the 3 bikes in the living room (would have been four but I got rid of grandpa's beach cruiser today).
But if one of your priorities is to maintain a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex who may not prioritize bikes like you do, I imagine it could get tricky.
