Anybody got any suggestions on how to optimise a work bike lockup cheaply? It's a wire cage built into a one car space bay in the corner of the underground carpark. There is a concrete wall along the left hand side and rear wall, and wire mesh and galpipe down the rhs and front, with a locking front gate.
Currently there are two racks (school bikerack type), one is bolted to the floor at the rear, the other down the right hand side. The racks are no good for roadbikes as the loops are very wide, and if anyone uses the rhs rack it totally blocks access to the rear rack. There is also a large set of lockers also down the right hand side which is complete waste of space, they need to be upstairs near the showers or the workspace.
At the moment the max number is around 10 and even then my bike is getting scratched by careless coworkers. I was thinking hooks to hang bikes vertically along the walls would allow a lot more than the maximum of 10 bikes that can fit in there at the moment with easy access. Staggering them would allow bikes to fit closer without bars tangling. The hooks I've seen are approx $25 each. I'll have to find out if we can drill into the concrete wall though.
I'm sure all you uber-hip forward thinking melbourne people have some pretty swank solutions! Any ideas?
Currently there are two racks (school bikerack type), one is bolted to the floor at the rear, the other down the right hand side. The racks are no good for roadbikes as the loops are very wide, and if anyone uses the rhs rack it totally blocks access to the rear rack. There is also a large set of lockers also down the right hand side which is complete waste of space, they need to be upstairs near the showers or the workspace.
At the moment the max number is around 10 and even then my bike is getting scratched by careless coworkers. I was thinking hooks to hang bikes vertically along the walls would allow a lot more than the maximum of 10 bikes that can fit in there at the moment with easy access. Staggering them would allow bikes to fit closer without bars tangling. The hooks I've seen are approx $25 each. I'll have to find out if we can drill into the concrete wall though.
I'm sure all you uber-hip forward thinking melbourne people have some pretty swank solutions! Any ideas?