Anyone have a motorbike inside?

[supercommuter]

I have a space in my office which i think will look great with a motorbike in it.Thinking something small like a classic triumph cub or something. Looking for some inspiration for a stand or display piece of wood?

Anyone have on inside on display?

My office is upstairs so anything big is out for me!

[srob]

Get a trials Tiger Cub if you're getting a Tiger Cub. At least the ride up the stairs will be fun!

[Fastdruid]

I did at one point have an RVF400 in the kitchen. Does that count?

[Steve Bass]

Put it on a treadmill and kill two birds with one stone!!

[Fastdruid]

Steve Bass said:

Put it on a treadmill and kill two birds with one stone!!

Nah, turbo trainer!

[Steve Bass]

Fastdruid said:

I did at one point have an RVF400 in the kitchen. Does that count?

I had my Ducati in my apartment, 15 floors up! neighbours were cool about it going up and down in the lift... Security less so...

[Steve Bass]

Fastdruid said:

Steve Bass said:

Put it on a treadmill and kill two birds with one stone!!

Nah, turbo trainer!

see, it's amateur hour around here.

A treadmill allows you to simulate hills, up & down so you can practice sliding the front end like MM93.

Dolt

BTW, if it's a dirt bike, use an X-Trainer (eliptical) instead. Good for off roady practice.....

Edited by Steve Bass on Wednesday 16th September 15:39

[V8RX7]

I think a bike as art rarely works - can you find an image of something you'd like to emulate ?

[rigga]

Purchased a eazy rizer bike stand off the guy who makes them (mates father in law), he kept his gsxr11 in the kitchen, was insistant he fired it up to show us his new underseat pipes he'd made.
He was single at the time

[srob]

I sometimes have a feature bike in the pub shed

[Steve Bass]

srob said:

I sometimes have a feature bike in the pub shed

Very cool..... for a snowflake

[shunt]

srob said:

I sometimes have a feature bike in the pub shed

Winner 🥇

[Merch131]

Have this in my living room... no issues really, but if the tank held petrol, you could find the room smells faintly of petrol each morning.

[N111BJG]

Must be a Ducati thing, no need for an office waiting area during COVID-19 so we removed the coffee table & chairs and put this in its place

[Drawweight]

I used to live here in the upper flat.

Downstairs had been disused for years before I moved in so I kicked the door in and used to keep my vfr400 in there.

Maybe not what the OP meant tho’

[Rubin215]

I've said it before, I'll say it again;

The amount of fuel a motorcycle would provide if a fire starts in the room where it is stored is massive.
Empty tank, oil drained, battery removed will make some difference, but the the volume of energy stored in tyres, plastics, seat-foam etc is huge.

The motorcycle itself is unlikely to be the source of a fire unless you keep it plugged in to a charger, but if a fire starts from something else and the bike is involved you are fked.

Most of us will have seen an old tyre on a bonfire and the amount of smoke that it produces; that smoke is both toxic and highly flammable.
Now imagine that in your living room while you are in bed asleep upstairs...

Before anyone criticises or challenges me I will point out that I spent 30 years in the fire service; as well as serving at several different stations covering a broad cross-section of society I was a Fire Behaviour Instructor in the training department and manager in the Community Safety department.

This is only advice, but your bike belongs in the garage, not the house.

[srob]

Steve Bass said:

srob said:

I sometimes have a feature bike in the pub shed

Very cool..... for a snowflake

Haha Yep. We often stand around discussing the whether the Sam Brown belt is a better all year round solution than a POLITE vest while comparing mpg figures of our tourers

shunt said:

Winner ??

Cheers. These little Italian machines would be ideal decorations. Mine is a 50cc but the level of detail of castings and stuff is unreal. It really is a work of art which is fortunate cos there’s no way it’d move me now

[anonymous-user]

Rubin215 said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again;

The amount of fuel a motorcycle would provide if a fire starts in the room where it is stored is massive.
Empty tank, oil drained, battery removed will make some difference, but the the volume of energy stored in tyres, plastics, seat-foam etc is huge.

The motorcycle itself is unlikely to be the source of a fire unless you keep it plugged in to a charger, but if a fire starts from something else and the bike is involved you are fked.

Most of us will have seen an old tyre on a bonfire and the amount of smoke that it produces; that smoke is both toxic and highly flammable.
Now imagine that in your living room while you are in bed asleep upstairs...

Before anyone criticises or challenges me I will point out that I spent 30 years in the fire service; as well as serving at several different stations covering a broad cross-section of society I was a Fire Behaviour Instructor in the training department and manager in the Community Safety department.

This is only advice, but your bike belongs in the garage, not the house.

But what about all the countless motorcycle dealers all over the country, some of them have hundreds of bikes all kept inside. You don't hear about those places going up in flames all the time?

[RazerSauber]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

Rubin215 said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again;

The amount of fuel a motorcycle would provide if a fire starts in the room where it is stored is massive.
Empty tank, oil drained, battery removed will make some difference, but the the volume of energy stored in tyres, plastics, seat-foam etc is huge.

The motorcycle itself is unlikely to be the source of a fire unless you keep it plugged in to a charger, but if a fire starts from something else and the bike is involved you are fked.

Most of us will have seen an old tyre on a bonfire and the amount of smoke that it produces; that smoke is both toxic and highly flammable.
Now imagine that in your living room while you are in bed asleep upstairs...

Before anyone criticises or challenges me I will point out that I spent 30 years in the fire service; as well as serving at several different stations covering a broad cross-section of society I was a Fire Behaviour Instructor in the training department and manager in the Community Safety department.

This is only advice, but your bike belongs in the garage, not the house.

But what about all the countless motorcycle dealers all over the country, some of them have hundreds of bikes all kept inside. You don't hear about those places going up in flames all the time?

I would suspect they have a series of fire suppression systems as well as less flammable materials. He also said the bike would most likely not be the cause of the fire too. The only part of his post I disagree with is the smoke being flammable.

[Steve Bass]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

Rubin215 said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again;

The amount of fuel a motorcycle would provide if a fire starts in the room where it is stored is massive.
Empty tank, oil drained, battery removed will make some difference, but the the volume of energy stored in tyres, plastics, seat-foam etc is huge.

The motorcycle itself is unlikely to be the source of a fire unless you keep it plugged in to a charger, but if a fire starts from something else and the bike is involved you are fked.

Most of us will have seen an old tyre on a bonfire and the amount of smoke that it produces; that smoke is both toxic and highly flammable.
Now imagine that in your living room while you are in bed asleep upstairs...

Before anyone criticises or challenges me I will point out that I spent 30 years in the fire service; as well as serving at several different stations covering a broad cross-section of society I was a Fire Behaviour Instructor in the training department and manager in the Community Safety department.

This is only advice, but your bike belongs in the garage, not the house.

But what about all the countless motorcycle dealers all over the country, some of them have hundreds of bikes all kept inside. You don't hear about those places going up in flames all the time?

You miss his point about the bike being in a residential property and the effercts of tyre smoke on the sleeping inhabitants or their ability to evacuate in an environment laden with tyre smoke.

He makes very valid points tbf clearly based on experience.