I’m fortunate to have a (tiled floor) “breakfast nook” space as part of my 6th-floor condo kitchen’s floorplan — which I don’t use as a breakfast nook. I got a floor-standing/wall-leaning bike rack for 2 bikes – I keep the lighter pedal bike hung on the upper brackets, and just park the heavier ebike on the floor directly beneath.
My condo garage provides a basic bike rack (ie, bikes in parallel, a wheel passed through the vertical slots.) I took one look at it when I got my ebike and decided I wouldn’t be risking it… Many bikes apparently haven’t been moved in years, judging by the uniform thick dust, dirt and flat tires — which perhaps bodes well that they weren’t targeted for theft? — but the rack sits far from the garage elevator lobby doors, decreasing the number of residents who can casually observe it day in and day out…
Instead, it is “out in the open”, in 2 otherwise empty car parking spaces ~40 feet from the neighborhood side-street-facing vehicle entry garage door, not enclosed within any kind of dedicated/fob-controlled room or cage. And, that garage-entry wall has a large cutout ventilation window (filled in with chain-link-fencing material) — making the rack and all the bikes fully visible to anyone who wants to take a long look at their leisure, while standing outside our garage — Should a bike strike their fancy, perhaps come back with bolt cutters and just discretely slip in once a car has activated the garage door and pulled away… (Maybe I’m paranoid, but it is way too easy to imagine this scenario happening!)
So yeah, my bikes always park inside my unit. If I come in from a messy/wet ride, I swing by my parked car in the garage where I keep some bike-cleanup towels in the trunk just for this purpose — wipe the wet bike down before rolling it into the condo (carpeted) hallways, elevators, and my apartment.
