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My wife is not happy with how much space my helmets, pads and bike apparel take up. Please share some pics of your setup, I could really use some inspiration on how to organize everything. I've got the usual:
  • gloves 3 sets
  • helmets 2 sets
  • night lamps
  • shammies
  • short pants, long pants
  • some jerseys
  • pads, chest and back armour
  • socks
  • hip pack
  • my garmin
  • heart rate belt

Do you guys keep your helmets on hooks on the wall? That would probably be neat. Also how do you dry your gear after a ride? I usually put them on the laundry stand, but the wife also does not like that o_O:rolleyes:
 
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rpsteiger said:
My wife is not happy with how much space my helmets, pads and bike apparel take up. Please share some pics of your setup, I could really use some inspiration on how to organize everything. I've got the usual:
  • gloves 3 sets
  • helmets 2 sets
  • night lamps
  • shammies
  • short pants, long pants
  • some jerseys
  • pads, chest and back armour
  • socks
  • hip pack
  • my garmin
  • heart rate belt

Do you guys keep your helmets on hooks on the wall? That would probably be neat. Also how do you dry your gear after a ride? I usually put them on the laundry stand, but the wife also does not like that o_O:rolleyes:
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I can get pictures later, but my gear gets kinda spread out. I have drawers dedicated to tech clothes alongside all my other clothes. Tech clothes don't really get wrinkled and if they do the wrinkles aren't so tenacious, so I just stuff things in the drawers. One drawyer for shorts and another for tops. Long pants go on hangers in the closet. My closet organization is hardly perfect, but I do separate pants from shirts, and my tech pants usually end up grouped together. Gloves go in a drawer with my socks. I have probably twice as many sets of gloves.

Helmets go on hooks in the garage, along with packs. Bike shoes and hiking boots go on a boot rack, also in the garage. Since they tend to be smellier than my other shoes and sandals that live in the front closet.

To dry wet items, I tend to lay them out in the sun on the patio.

Pictures will come later.
 
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Sorry no pics but I've got 5 short sleeve + 5 tank top jerseys, 3 pairs of baggies + 5 padded liners, pants, arm & 2 types of leg warmers all in separate travel cubes in a large cheap duffel bag on a closet shelf.
Helmet is on the closet shelf holding my gloves. Pretty easy & if I did it over again I might look at that Thule bike duffel I like the compartments I do have to dig a little if I want a specific item.
Drying just hang them on a hanger on the closet frame for a couple hours.
 
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I hang up my bibs and jerseys. Base layers, socks, and outerwear shorts are in a drawer in my nightstand along with my other dry fit exercise clothes.

The gloves, sweat band insert things are in a mesh bag that stays in my car, along with my helmets, a spare helmet, pump, etc. Fortunately, I have an EV, so the front truck is separate, a good size, and doesn't let the smell get into the car.
 
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We have more than I thought now I type it all out, but it's pretty well organised. Includes my girlfriends stuff too:
  • x4 helmets - in an Ikea Kallax 4x4 shelf unit in the lower entrance hallway which also stores my tool boxes, lights and bike cleaning stuff/chain lubes etc. 2 of 4 bikes are down there too, the other two are in the basement
  • x3 pairs of gloves - tucked into the helmets (I never use the gloves unless it's below 0°C)
  • x4 jackets - on a coat hanger in the upper hallway
  • x1 pair of riding shoes - under the coats with all the other shoes
  • x3 pairs of shorts + liners - storage box in the bedroom
  • x1 pair or lightweight riding trousers - storage box in the bedroom
  • x2 pair of kneepads - storage box in the bedroom (haven't used pads in over 10 years)
  • x3 SS jerseys - hung in a closet in the main bedroom
  • x2 LS jerseys - hung in a closet in the main bedroom
  • x1 SS merino baselayer - hung in a closet in the main bedroom
  • x1 LS merino baselayer - hung in a closet in the main bedroom
Everything gets washed then dried outside (weather permitting) after a ride.
 
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Clothes hang up in closet with others.
I have a home office room.
Helmets hang up there, as well as pack water bladder.
My 'bench' in office is where the magic is.
Massive duffle with my pads and extra stuff for park days, or going somewhere.
I lay my damp gloves, & head cover out on the bag to dry, shoes go below.
I have a chest protector that hangs behind the office closet door.
Lights and stuff have a small charging station on my desk.
I usually ride from home, and don't wear my hip pack daily.
 
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Easy we just bought a bigger house lol.

That allowed me to turn a spare bedroom into a home office. That means a wardrobe along one wall that can be used just to store bike and sports gear.

Anything wet either gets washed immediately and hung up to dry, of if it doesn't need washing is hung up in the garage until it's dry enough for the wadrobe.
 
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Gear bag in the closet for all the big park stuff. FF, chest protector, goggles, pants, etc.

Then a rather small bin by the door for local rides/XC that's more so half shell, glasses, and gloves. And the simpler clothing for those rides just mixes in with normal clothes. For that stuff I typically don't even buy 'MTB brand'. Literally just running gear or fishing shirts from Ross.

One thing I'd kinda like to figure out is better tool storage being in an apartment with no garage. Mostly in so far as some of the tools go from house to car and back. Usually just stuff a bunch of it in a backpack since I like proper tools at the trailhead, not using multi-tools unless I have to (out on trail).

But then ultimately I do light wrenching on the bike at the house, then have to remember everything to go back in for rides, and it just leaves decent room for error (as ya do).

And then the big huge issue is bike storage. In an apt. I'm still puzzling that one out because it was not so bad with normal bikes before, but now the lady is on an e-bike and that's a bigger challenge. Can't just flip it any way you wish nor hang it from the cheapest hooks imaginable. 55+ pounds. Meh.
 
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I keep all the clothing in a vertical storage thing in my closet: shorts on one shelf, socks, jerseys, then cold weather stuff.
Bikes, helmets, shoes, gloves (man, I have a lotta gloves - I have a glove shelf, with a stack of gloves next to a box to store gloves), glasses (shelf above gloves), lights (drawer below gloves), packs, all in the basement. I need to put up a couple more hooks for the packs. Thanks for reminding me.
But no pix. It's a mess right now. 😬

-F
 
#15 ·
Two helmets in the car with gloves and eyeglasses. More helmets in the house. Bicycles everywhere clothes and pads here and there in the house. Tools in a bag in the car and in a tool box and my nightstand with a rear axle and some brake pads. Ready to roll!
 
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I have one of those smaller plastic 3 drawer dresser systems for my clothes (deep drawers). One for MTB clothes and one for road.

My MTB duffel stays packed at all times with gloves, helmet, shoes, hip pack, clif bloks and a spare empty bottle. My wife has an identical one that both live next to the bikes.

Road helmet hangs on the road bike with shoes somewhere around it.

I have a miscellaneous plastic bin in the garage where I keep a spare helmet and MTB shoes along with my kids helmets so I don’t have to dig into my ride day bag when I head out into the neighborhood with them.

All my other spares (i.e. old stuff) got tossed in the spring. It was a solid two black trash bags full of old helmets, tires, worn out clothes and bike crap that I hung onto for wayyy too long.
 
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The only solution is to convert your wife into a cyclist. Its the only way.

Between the wife and I, we now have 19 bikes. We each have at least 2 drawers in our dressers that are solely for mtb jerseys, socks, and gloves. Then we have under-bed storage for our winter gear, then at least 1/3 of each our closets has hanging jerseys plus multiple sets of hooks to hang our bibs from. Cycling shoes--I have 5 pairs in my closet, plus my N45 winter boots in the spare closet plus my go-to trail shoes that are left in car year round.

The only correct answer to this inquiry is to infect your wife with extreme cycling passion.
 
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I was dealing with this problem last summer.
Jumped into my buddies vehicle for a 30 min drive to our riding trails on a perfect day, ripped the bikes off the rack, slip the shoes, gloves and kneepads on only to discover I have no helmet... ****.
To avoid that from ever happening again I got a Thule Roundtrip duffel bag. No bigger than the bag i used to bring but fits absolutely everything I plan to wear and room for the things I don't.
Not inexpensive but worth it
 
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