# Apartment dwellers where do you store your bicycle(s)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617 "2021-07-03T18:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/21 "2021-07-09T04:06:52Z")
It’s pretty common, I think, for leases (and condo rules) to prohibit storing bicycles on balconies. I’ve never heard of forbidding them in units, but I can imagine a landlord worried about damage to hallways from bringing bikes in and out. I can imagine this being especially worrisome in Chicago’s ubiquitous courtyard apartments, in which apartments are entered from fairly steep and tight stair halls rather than from corridors, and where entries are often “air lock” double doors quite close together. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/22 "2021-07-09T17:03:23Z")
That’s exactly the set up, courtyard apt just as you described. The property Mgmt company owns several residential and commercial properties in the Lincolnpark. Andersonville and Ravenswood area. I read nothing about balcony restrictions just the rule against bikes inside. Mgmt did offer them something like $250 off 1 no rent for storm damage compensation. That’s something but they’d rather move really so negotiations on their lease term have commenced Im told. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/23 "2021-07-15T00:21:00Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > It’s pretty common, I think, for leases (and condo rules) to prohibit storing bicycles on balconies. I don’t think our condo has any rules about bikes on balconies. But they do prohibit bikes in the hallways, and they do enforce the rule. I think this is actually a fire code thing (so I’m told), and it makes sense. In case of fire or other emergency, there shouldn’t be anything cluttering up the halls. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/24 "2021-07-15T05:54:11Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@chela](#): > > > > Is it against your lease to keep a bike in your apartment? > > What? I’ve never heard of such a rule. Dogs, sure, but bikes are house-broken. I’ll bet the lease was some boilerplate "Generic Lease Agreement"and the landlord doesn’t even know the clause is there. > > To refute it, I’d quote _Seinfeld vs Any Landlord,_ where it’s clearly shown in many episodes that Jerry keeps his bike in his apartment. LOL, for several years I lived in an apartment a few blocks from the diner in _Seinfeld_. It was a 1920s building with no storage or bike room. I kept my bike right inside my apartment door (there was a 14 foot hallway between the door and the rest of the apartment) and when my husband moved in, his bike moved in too. The building superintendent knew the bikes were there and never said anything. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/25 "2021-07-15T17:25:28Z")
Now that I have a house, the bike lives in the garage (when it isn’t strapped to my car). But when I had an apartment, the bike went 1.) In the bike rack outside. This wasn’t the best solution, because once I had a bike stolen this way. Yes, it’s was locked, with a good quality lock. They cut through it, which was ridiculous, because the bike certainly wasn’t worth that effort. 2.) In a locked bike room – a good alternative, if such a room exists. Not everyplace has them. 3.) In the apartment living room – Fortunately, there was no clause against bikes in the apartment. Unfortunately, I lived in a fourth floor walk-up. no elevator. 4.) In a closet in the apartment. No, it wasn’t that big. The bike stood upright on its rear wheel. It worked, but I ended up with skid marks on the wall from the front wheel. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617/26 "2021-07-15T19:09:27Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 1.) In the bike rack outside. This wasn’t the best solution, because once I had a bike stolen this way. Yes, it’s was locked, with a good quality lock. They cut through it, which was ridiculous, because the bike certainly wasn’t worth that effort. One of the apartments I lived in had a bike rack outside. The problem I had with that solution was that the bike was exposed to the elements. After a while the chain and gears started to rust, even in dry, sunny, California. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-dwellers-where-do-you-store-your-bicycle-s/945617.md?page=1)