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Do apartments have space for bicycles?
Do apartments have space for bicycles?
Hi,
Thanks for a great forum. Picked up lots of great info.
We are a family of four about to move to Singapore.
We are considering buying our bikes here in Australia, then have the company shift them over for us as part of the move.
I've heard from some already in Singapore that there is no cellar space or lock up space. Is that the norm for apartments/condos?
What do people do with their bicycles? Keep them on the balcony?
Thanks.
Thanks for a great forum. Picked up lots of great info.
We are a family of four about to move to Singapore.
We are considering buying our bikes here in Australia, then have the company shift them over for us as part of the move.
I've heard from some already in Singapore that there is no cellar space or lock up space. Is that the norm for apartments/condos?
What do people do with their bicycles? Keep them on the balcony?
Thanks.
Re: Do apartments have space for bicycles?
Modern housing units come with internal bomb shelters. These invariably get used for storage, and would have space for bikes, though wheeling bikes through an inevitably cramped home is not ideal.southernx wrote:Hi,
Thanks for a great forum. Picked up lots of great info.
We are a family of four about to move to Singapore.
We are considering buying our bikes here in Australia, then have the company shift them over for us as part of the move.
I've heard from some already in Singapore that there is no cellar space or lock up space. Is that the norm for apartments/condos?
What do people do with their bicycles? Keep them on the balcony?
Thanks.
Alternatives:
Yes, keep on a balcony, though there may be condo rules against this, I see bikes kept out now and again where I live.
In my place, there is a bike-zone down in the car-park. The bikes (even very $$$ ones) aren't locked onto anything. Most just have a $10 combi-lock and chain around a wheel.
p.s. I've not heard of condos here in SG having cellar/external lock-up space. In fact the only place that my flat came with a fenced off cellar space, was in Europe, and that really was a bonus. That said, space there was at much less of a premium, and a lot of buildings there with such facilities are old.
Re: Do apartments have space for bicycles?
On the other hand, I had a crappy 15 yr old hand-me-down Dutch bike (meaning those tanks that weigh 20kg+ you see in Amsterdam everywhere) stolen from me. It was locked to a bike rack, and even had the second hand-cuff style lock going through the back wheel.JR8 wrote: In my place, there is a bike-zone down in the car-park. The bikes (even very $$$ ones) aren't locked onto anything. Most just have a $10 combi-lock and chain around a wheel.
In a condo there is always some space designated for the bikes, typically withing the carpark. Whether it is safe to keep it there depends IMHO on the condo. My wife kept her bike (branded but not an expensive though, sub 2k range) for 3 years in the basement, locking it a sewer pipe and removing only the lamps. Nothing bad has ever happened.
The risk is rather to have it damaged than stolen as if the later happens you see it making its way to the condo circulars and something like this I've seen probably 2 times over +10 years.
The risk is rather to have it damaged than stolen as if the later happens you see it making its way to the condo circulars and something like this I've seen probably 2 times over +10 years.
Dutch and German bikes.
So damned heavy they probably had a scrap metal value to justify stealing them.
p.s. at our place...

Something of a correction. The kiddy-bikes to the right are locked to wall bars. The ones to the left (including that completely unlocked Schwin cruiser bike) are not. Where the Schwin is this pm, there is usually a very high end racing bike. Funny thing, from the design and shapes of the forks it is clearly a track (velodrome) racing bike, quite where it gets ridden here I have no idea. It too is left unlocked...
So damned heavy they probably had a scrap metal value to justify stealing them.
p.s. at our place...

Something of a correction. The kiddy-bikes to the right are locked to wall bars. The ones to the left (including that completely unlocked Schwin cruiser bike) are not. Where the Schwin is this pm, there is usually a very high end racing bike. Funny thing, from the design and shapes of the forks it is clearly a track (velodrome) racing bike, quite where it gets ridden here I have no idea. It too is left unlocked...
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Leave your high end addidas or nikes outside your door if you live in an HDB flat and they will disappear faster than the bicycle left unlocked at an MRT station will.Sergei82 wrote:In Singapore they steal bicycles only, never anything else.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
Do not buy your bikes in Aus. Bikes here rust up very quickly. They are also very cheap. You can buy cheap as chips bikes second hand, or new at giant or many many bakeshops. Better to get a cheap bike that can be replaced when it is rusted or stolen.
I have only ever had one bike stolen (and we have 8 bikes) and for most of our time we have never locked our bikes - whether in condo bike racks, when out and about or behind house.
I have only ever had one bike stolen (and we have 8 bikes) and for most of our time we have never locked our bikes - whether in condo bike racks, when out and about or behind house.
If you buy a quality bike, you won't have rust. Even a cheaper cromoly bike will only surface rust. It'll come right off.katbh wrote:Do not buy your bikes in Aus. Bikes here rust up very quickly. They are also very cheap. You can buy cheap as chips bikes second hand, or new at giant or many many bakeshops. Better to get a cheap bike that can be replaced when it is rusted or stolen.
I have only ever had one bike stolen (and we have 8 bikes) and for most of our time we have never locked our bikes - whether in condo bike racks, when out and about or behind house.
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