How attached are you to the walls? you could make some nice minimalist pegs and bolt them to the studs. Or you could hand-carve some ornate gargoyle claws.
2010-09-27 19:50:01
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Bike Storage: Pics/Ideas
The bike shelf thread has me thinking about bike storage....
I'm tired of running into the four bikes I have leaning against various walls of my little house (and yes, we actually use them). I don't have a garage. My basement is small and cramped and can barely hold the workbench, tools, wheels, tires, projects, etc. But maybe I'm not using my imagination down there. Upstairs, I do have ten foot ceilings. I'm tall. I can reach. So I was thinking of making something to hang them up on a wall/walls (and perhaps the helmets and other assorted gear). I'd prefer to make something less sterile than the metal pole contraptions you can buy at the usual internet suspects. I've got a table saw. I can build shit. Any bright ideas? I'm wide open, really. Show and tell.
2010-09-27 18:13:28
Ceiling hooks allow you to store the bike vertically. Put one in the corner of a room.
2010-09-27 19:55:35
Not pretty, but cheap and effective: 2x4's with hooks. This was freestanding on shelves, because I was renting and not able to install anything permanent.
2010-09-27 20:35:17
^^^THIS.
Absolutely brilliant. You've managed to store five bicycles in less floor space than I use to store two, without getting them tangled, and for under $20 in parts. (Probably less than $5. You can pick up used 2x4s anywhere.)
Function win!!
2010-09-27 21:21:02
I count six, but maybe one of them is an alien.
2010-09-27 21:48:45
maybe when you add in the space it took to store john's 6th bike, it went over the space it took stu to store two.
2010-09-27 22:10:50
Last year I lived in a house that store maybe a dozen bikes in a tiny anteroom, hung up on hooks screwed into a 2x4 that was very securely hung on the wall. You had to alternate front/rear but it was amazing
2010-09-27 23:35:40
Man, all summer I've been fighting the bikes in the basement, trying to find a way to maneuver one into a vertical position without having the others fall over. I have wall mounts, but they are all bent. Nothing to sink a hook into in the ceiling.... But, I have this exact same shelving unit RIGHT next to where I park the bikes. All I need it to mimic John's set up! Brilliant! Many, many thanks to John, for posting a solution, and to dooftram for posting the challenge.
2010-09-27 23:37:28
For a hanging-storage tour de force, just visit freeride...
2010-09-27 23:40:20
We have a nice wall hanging thing that I believe came from target. It just leans up against the wall with height adjustable hooks coming horizontally out from it. Its only made to put one bike on bottom and one on top, but you can squeeze 2 on each level if you want to. It freed up a ton of space in our 10-bike house.
2010-09-28 00:16:26
Free Ride
2010-09-28 02:03:32
Saw five hooks and five front tires, but didn't see the brown frame. Oh well, even better!
@RickyTickyTac - Don't you have a tandem, too? Where/How do you store that?
2010-09-28 14:02:57
The hooks in John's photo (and freeride) work well. I have a few of them setup in my basement and they work pretty good and are cheap
2010-09-28 14:27:34
we have six bikes and we do the up/down hanging storage in the basement sort of like the photo above, with a little thing that holds our bike gear next to it. my basement has some protruding walls and actually there is the perfect spot for this right next to the basement door, thus you can come in and out and store your bike really easily.
i highly reccomend the rubberized hook method with a 2x4 attached to the ceiling.
2010-09-28 15:19:27
The tandem doesn't have a special storage space, it just leans on the wall next to the piano in the kitchen... We have too much crap.
We're actually re-vamping our bike storage system in the next week or so, I'll put some pics up when its done. We're moving our living room to a spare room upstairs and dedicating the old first-floor living room to being a bike/work area. a 6-bike storage rack is on the way, so combined with the leaning wall rack we should have plenty of space.
2010-09-28 15:34:04
double-post deleted.
2010-09-28 15:34:37
we have ten bikes and have them stored is various areas of the basement according to use. stef's ss and my fixie(with a front brake!) hang by the rear wheel (with short u-bar locks hanging next to each) at the bottom of the stairs for easy access, the road bikes hang by the saddles near the washing machine to keep them up and out of the way while not stressing fragile road wheels, the cross country bikes and my dirt jumper stay under the stairs leaning on each other and the downhill and freeride bikes are generally either leaning on the xc bikes, upstairs leaning against a wall to go out the next day, or in the repair stand getting worked on (again). any unbuilt frames hang from a hook behind the laundry area to keep them out of the way. one of these days when the basement is actually cleaned up i'll have to take pictures.
that shelf is pretty but i could buy 300 rubberized hooks for the same price.
2010-09-28 16:47:59
Will hanging a road bike by the wheels hurt the wheels?
2010-09-28 18:10:42
Will hanging a road bike by the wheels hurt the wheels?
Nope.
2010-09-28 18:15:30
its not the hanging, its the clumsy unhanging and my insanely fragile spokes.
2010-09-29 03:23:21
This is what I use in my basement. I love it, I go in through the garage door straight to here and I don't have to worry about carrying a bike.
2010-09-29 15:40:22
I like the drop bars on the cargo bike!
2010-09-29 16:45:46
rsprake, how'd that stem work out?
2010-09-29 16:49:23