Turn Your Bike To Shelf.

Where do you keep your bike? I keep mine in the hallway, just inside the front door, but The Lady hates it there. Not only does it scuff up the wall, it trips her up when she stalks the apartment at night, obsessively checking that the gas hasn’t been left on, or that the deafening crash she just heard was in fact me, stumbling around drunk on whisky again and not an intruder.

Sadly, I think I’m about to lose the fight to keep my bike indoors, but if I was allowed, I’d probably hang it up on something like the Urban City Bike Shelf, a hand-made maple block with cut-outs for a bike’s top tube. Unlike many other purpose-made bike hangers — which would be more at home in a garden shed than a stylish apartment — this one actually looks like a piece of proper furniture. When the bike is out and about, the shelf looks like any other handsome, waxed shelf.

The Bike Shelf measures 12 x 11 x 3 inches, and is sturdy enough for most bikes as long as you actually fix it to the wall properly. The catch? It costs $150. Then again, if you’re happy to drop $170+ on a Brooks Swift saddle, this accessory might seem cheap.