It\’s time for n + 1 revisited. Are your bicycles at the critical point where they\’re about to crowd humans out of your abode? Here are some possible solutions.

At present my indoor bicycle storage system works well enough. The hybrid has a kickstand. I simply use that; and put an old lid under the tip of the kickstand so it won\’t tear up the carpet. I got that idea after I read about taking along a frozen juice lid when you ride to the beach, so your bicycle\’s kickstand won\’t sink into the sand.

For the road bike I got a stand that holds a wheel; can you see it here? I don\’t know whether it really makes any difference which wheel goes into the stand; but I got into the habit of putting the rear wheel there.

If I got one of the things listed in the Bike Radar article, I think it would be a bike tree; aka a free-standing rack. Even then, I\’d have to be careful not to knock it over! My ceilings are much too high to make a ceiling-to-floor rack possible. That kind that you can lean against a wall might stick out too far from the wall; and then I\’d trip over it.

If I can ever have my own home, maybe I can try those hooks that screw into a wall. I\’d just have to be careful to locate a 2×4 (\”stud\”) to fasten them into, because the hybrid weighs about 35 pounds. Sheetrock, to name one interior wall material, won\’t hold that!

Or, if you\’re lucky enough to have sufficient acreage and a bottomless purse, you could build your bicycles their very own house. That makes n + 1 revisited much easier!