There's a bike storage room off the upper parking garage in the condo building. It is tiny and fits eight bikes - there are eight hooks on the left side wall. There's barely enough room to position a bike in front of a hook prior to hoisting it up there. I've claimed the farthest hook and rather than use the hook itself, I lock my bike against the back wall. It's completely out of everyone's way. I'm the only one who uses their bike on a daily basis, rain, shine or snow. The other bikes never move except for maybe once or twice a year on a sunny Saturday or Sunday.
For a while, someone was storing a large table saw in there which I had to drag in and out of the room every time I wanted to get my bike. Found out who that was and they removed it.
But the worst offenders are newbies who think it's fine to leave their bikes, sometimes two bikes locked up together, leaning up against the right side wall. Hey, the racks are all full with bikes that don't move. I can't get my bike out because these new bikes are in the way and there's no room to squeeze past them. And it would be impossible for anyone else to get their bikes off the racks - not that it matters because they're not being used.
These non-used bikes are invariably Norcos or Treks or something halfway decent, and just about all of them need some serious air in their tires - further proof of non-use.
Seeing as we live in a part of the country where the car is king, I guess the assumption is that a bike storage room is akin to a storage locker.
Aside from putting up signs which will likely be ignored because nobody goes in there after they dump their bikes for the first time, does anyone have any creative suggestions for dealing with this? Condo rules say that we can't keep bikes anywhere else - not even in our own units because the elevators "might get scratched".