A bike in the kitchen! My wife's idea!

[Carl26]

Out of the blue the other day, my wife says, "We should hang one of your bikes in the kitchen." Our house was built in 1952 and it has pink metal Geneva cabinets and there is a lot of chrome and stainless steel throughout the kitchen. She is the creative one in the relationship. She always has these crazy ideas that I would never think of. I am usually hesitant to go along with her ideas, but most of the time they work out great.

I was and still am a little apprehensive about hanging an old bike in the kitchen, but I was willing to at least bring a bike in from the garage because she wanted to see how it would look. It is a 24" Schwinn Tornado which coincidentally was built in 1952, the same year as the house. Her idea is to put some kind of planter on the rear rack with a vine plant in it. I would obviously clean it up really good and hang it higher. The left side of the handlebar is bent pretty bad so I could cut part of that side off so I could mount it closer to the wall.

 

[LowpowerD]

Carl, yer one lucky dog. She's a keeper!

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

Very Cool ,I've seen many bikes in Restaurants, so why not a
Kitchen , look's Great !

Rafael

 

[dragnusa]

Looks cool

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice idea!

Luke.

 

[dragnusa]

You should find find a basket for the handle bars and one side of a paper boy basket for the back.

 

[Bicycle Addict]

You should marry that women again, never let her go. Awesome

 

[B607]

Whatta woman! My bikes live in the basement, garage, and barn. I feel inferior. Gary

 

[mikeeebikey]

Bicycle friendly women are certainly the smartest ones, never let her go!

 

[mikeeebikey]

A picture of my dining room.

She said, just bring it in if you like it!

 

[Skipton]

Looks great!

 

[DJ Bill]

I dunno if I could bring myself to cut off half a handlebar for a display....but if the bar is junk already, maybe.. Going to pull a pedal as well?

I love those old metal cabinets...Unfortunately not many people do appreciate them and rush to install the latest fiberboard wonders from the big box store.

 

[junknutz1975]

She , my friend , is an absolute keeper!

 

[gcrank1]

Kinda looks like a table lamp

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

I got away with having this one in the Living room for about a Month !
not a very good pic, but here it was .

 

[abe lugo]

Good idea to removed half the handlebar, of find a another set to chop in half, you might also remove the pedal on that side. You might want to look at crating a ledge to set the wheels on, then some hooks with chain to hang the bike at an angle down. Lucky you can get away with it.

 

[B607]

For your display, try it with the seat all the way down and the handlebars level. Gary

 

[Rustinkerer]

Careful, people may start walking in, thinking it's a new Cracker Barrel! -Adam

 

[kentercanyon]

Free the Cracker Barrel political prisoners! (hang them at home!)

 

[Carl26]

I dunno if I could bring myself to cut off half a handlebar for a display....but if the bar is junk already, maybe.. Going to pull a pedal as well?

I love those old metal cabinets...Unfortunately not many people do appreciate them and rush to install the latest fiberboard wonders from the big box store.

Yeah, not sure about the handle bar yet. It is bent and has a pretty good crease in it. Also has gouges from where it looks like someone tried to straighten them out with pliers. I would remove the left pedal as well.