Bike rack for a garage?

Cheap at half the price: There are three bikes suspended from the roof
beams in our garage, held there by nothing more than hooking the front
of the seat over a beam.

They haven't fallen down yet... 🙂

It wouldn't be easy for kids, but you could leave theirs on the ground
with just yours at the top.

Phil

zzapper said:

We now own 5 cycles, which are stored pell-mell in our single width
garage. When I come to get mine I sometimes have to move two others.
Has anyone got a practical solution for storing bikes in the minimum
space, easy for kids, resonably priced???

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zzapper posted:

Quoted message said:

We now own 5 cycles, which are stored pell-mell in our single width
garage. When I come to get mine I sometimes have to move two others.
Has anyone got a practical solution for storing bikes in the minimum
space, easy for kids, resonably priced???

Garage roof beams for Adults bikes, hung up by front of seat, small
U-shaped, similar to U-locks, brackets hung from beams to allow kids to hang
their bikes up too .. hand-made from Alloy bar bought from... ahem .. a
company I worked with once .. but also available at B & Q etc .. 😉

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zzapper said:

We now own 5 cycles, which are stored pell-mell in our single width
garage. When I come to get mine I sometimes have to move two others.
Has anyone got a practical solution for storing bikes in the minimum
space, easy for kids, resonably priced???

The joists in most garages are exactly the right distance apart for me
to screw in two hooks and hang a bike by the saddle nose and stem. Of
course, if you don't ride a 22" frame with an 11cm stem and the same
saddle setback as me, this is probably useless information!

(zzapper) said:

We now own 5 cycles, which are stored pell-mell in our single width
garage. When I come to get mine I sometimes have to move two others.
Has anyone got a practical solution for storing bikes in the minimum
space, easy for kids, resonably priced???

Large hooks in the wall, positioned horizontally. Hang the first bike
by the front wheel with the tyres resting on the wall (as if spiderman
were riding up the wall). Place the second one similarly but hanging
by the back wheel. This allows you the get them closer together. And
so on along the wall. You can get special hooks for this at about 9
quid a throw or just use cheap plastic covered hooks from your local
hardware store. These will bend a bit where they exit the wall but
that doesn't really matter.

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Zog The Undeniable said:

The joists in most garages are exactly the right distance apart for me
to screw in two hooks and hang a bike by the saddle nose and stem.

Leaving the bike right way up, which is all-important. As Alan Lee
posted Some Time Back, hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad
move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the bottom of the wheel,
stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes, and leaving
a definite bulge where the hanger was.

In addition, the butyl of the inner tube gradually deteriorates at the
top as the nitrogen sinks to the bottom, allowing the pure oxygen to
attack the black colouring of the butyl.Apparently only black inner
tubes are affected, so clear ones will be fine.The front forks are
also affected, as they are made to be in compression, and once the
compression is released, the kinetic tension is released, so
lengthening the forks.

The only way to keep the bike in good condition is to use it everyday!

Guy
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Zog The Undeniable said:

The joists in most garages are exactly the right distance apart for me
to screw in two hooks and hang a bike by the saddle nose and stem.

Leaving the bike right way up, which is all-important. As Alan Lee
posted Some Time Back, hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad
move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the bottom of the wheel,
stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes...

And this is a terribly bad thing for the wheel, which as we all know has
to stand on the bottom spokes.

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We now own 5 cycles, which are stored pell-mell in our single width
garage. When I come to get mine I sometimes have to move two others.
Has anyone got a practical solution for storing bikes in the minimum
space, easy for kids, resonably priced???

Decathlon have some offerings:
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/ukstore/famille.asp?int_DeptId=25409&int_DeptPereId=455
Or have a look at the single bike hooks, Wiggle have some.
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Decathlon have some offerings:
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/ukstore/famille.asp?int_DeptId=25409&int_DeptPereId=455

This looks good but I don't have a handy Decathlon,any other stores?

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