Zaskar

This topic pops up every once in a while. But, there's value in revisiting the topic - new ideas, new products, things you'd do differently... Full disclosure, I'm in the middle of redoing my "shop" and, absent any "wow - didn't think of that" ideas... it'll likely look just like the old setup.
So let's see some home bikeshops!

Current setup:

Russ Roth

This gives the general feel for my shop space. In hindsight I'd have liked to have bought a second cabinet and made the bench as extra 4' longer with a 3 more pockets on the other side. But I built the thing for 20.00 for the metal peg board and at the time couldn't have afforded more. Could now, but the cabinet is no longer made, the new version is a different color, narrower and has poorer designed drawers so it leaves me stuck not wanting to bother. When I move again in a couple years I'll sell the cabinet and pegboard and build a whole new one in the new location using a different tool cabinet I have in the wood shop, it's a 4' wide cabinet that works poorly for the general mechanics and wood working tools I have out there but would be great for this, I'll just have to get a bigger cabinet for the shop to facilitate it.

downtube42

My next iteration won't have a fixed workbench. It's always covered with crap, and essentially useless.

Zaskar

Ha! I literally started with a bigger fixed workbench. I like having that rolling workbench (that really never moves) but always wished it were a bit bigger. The new one is 36" x 88". This will either give me more space to work... or more space to accumulate crap.

Russ Roth what do you like to keep in the drawers vs. on the wall? I recently read - on a woodworking forum (I'm not into wood working, but was hunting for ideas) - that hand tools go in drawers and bigger, more cumbersome tools go on the wall - clamps, levels, squares, etc. I might follow this for my next setup - and go back to drawers and get some of the tools off the walls. I like the hex and torx sets on the wall, but the screwdrivers, open-end wrenches... seems like a waste of wall space. My "car tools" are all in drawers and it works well.

woodcraft

I agree with the drawer plan- never been a fan of pegboards especially, and I often marvel at the amount of wall space that folks have to devote to a few tools.

One tidbit that I've put to use- electric motor casing (ie garbage disposer) make a good stand for screwdrivers, hex keys, etc. although some folks don't like get a bit of magnetism going in those tools.

Here's my bike area





And some of the main shop

Ghazmh

And remember, Always wear your safety glasses.

Koyote

That's why I have a workbench that's 16 feet long: about ten feet is covered with stuff, which leaves about six feet for actual tasks.

TiHabanero

Today I came across a kid cutting up a Chevy truck frame using a gas torch, and without safety glasses. I am not a safety equipment Nazi by any means, but when operating a torch, wear something to protect from at least the sparks.

noimagination

I don't have a workshop, but when we remodeled the house one of my regrets is that I didn't think to have the contractor put a floor drain in the basement add-on (walk out basement on a slope). Not sure if that's an option for you, but it would be nice to be able to wash the bikes indoors during the winter.

I could use the basement shower, but it's a stall so I'd have to stand the bike up - doable (well, not doable for the tandem), but I'd probably end up with a few gouges in my skin, and/or the shower stall walls, so it's better just to wait for a warmer winter day.

Kapusta

I’m all about drawers. Wide, shallow ones like you find in most tool chests. They are so much more flexible then pegboards, and more efficient space-wise. Tools do tend to get somewhat organized within a drawer, but it is a fairly organic process.

I hang big things on the wall.

Zaskar

I'm sold - ditching most of the pegboard system. I'm going to buy another rolling tool chest (damn those things are spendy) and limit the wall tools to the derailleur alignment tool, wood clamps, squares, etc. I'm using 15/32" plywood for the walls, so I can put shelves/hooks anywhere, and heavy stuff will go through to studs - which will be much easier to locate.