Anyone Used A Hoist Up Bike Rack?

justlukeyou

Hi,

I was searching through Amazon and found a hoist up bike rack. It has 7 reviews which all appear to be good. Has anyone tried one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... ffers06-21

cooldad

Seems like a rip off.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BICYCLE-PULLE ... 4d0e58172e

londoncommuter

Lidl were doing them for £5 a while back as well so the Amazon one does seem a bit steep.

Couple of maybe useful comments here:

viewtopic.php?f=40020&t=12842209

londoncommuter

Here's it is (kind of):

http://www.lidl.com.mt/cps/rde/xchg/SID ... _17542.htm

YeehaaMcgee

justlukeyou wrote:

Hi,

I was searching through Amazon and found a hoist up bike rack. It has 7 reviews which all appear to be good. Has anyone tried one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... ffers06-21

How is that going to save any space, unless you've got a warehouse or factory height ceiling?

97th choice

It works near a wall where you're not walking under it, I hang my bikes from a beam in the garage which works quite well.

YeehaaMcgee

97th choice wrote:

It works near a wall where you're not walking under it, I hang my bikes from a beam in the garage which works quite well.

But you can't really put anything under it, can't put anything above it, it just doesn't make sense. It's snake oil.

97th choice

I've got 5ft of shelving under my bike, the weird winch thing might be snake oil but hanging your bike from the ceiling isn't.

YeehaaMcgee

5 foot under the bike? Do you live in a warehouse or an old church?
Quite apart from that, how the hell do you get the bike up there without smashing up everything that's on the shelving?

97th choice

I live in a house, the bike lives in the garage.

I lift it up by the down tube then hook it on by the seat, I'm hardly Stallone but it's not hard to do.

YeehaaMcgee

And...?

97th choice

Cross post edit, see above.

YeehaaMcgee

Ah, so you stand on top of your 5 feet of shelves, knocking stuff everywhere in order to hook your bike on the world's tallest garage ceiling?

cooldad

You need to understand Yeehaa is a tiny Welsh midget, so anything over a foot needs a stepladder.

97th choice

No, FFS, I lift up the bike, grab it by the down tube, lift it above my head then hang it from the ceiling by the seat. I'm guessing you must live in a hobbit hole.

97th choice

cooldad wrote:

You need to understand Yeehaa is a tiny Welsh midget, so anything over a foot needs a stepladder.

I'm welsh, I just didn't realise we had d1cks that small.

Kowalski675

97th choice wrote:

I hang my bikes from a beam in the garage which works quite well.

Me too. Garage has a vaulted roof with plenty of beams, so with the addition of a length of 2" x 2" timber from a Ducati Multistrada crate (free), 4 woodscrews and 4 plastic coated hooks (£2 per pair from Asda) mine are both hanging up out of the way, above my Triumphs, overlapped so they only occupy the length of one and a half bikes (and the width of one). Works for me.

cooldad

97th choice wrote:

cooldad wrote:

You need to understand Yeehaa is a tiny Welsh midget, so anything over a foot needs a stepladder.

I'm welsh, I just didn't realise we had d1cks that small.

You've never looked in the mirror?

cooldad

Kowalski675 wrote:

97th choice wrote:

I hang my bikes from a beam in the garage which works quite well.

Blah blah hero blah motorcycle blah blah me blah blah blah .

Kowalski675

cooldad wrote:

Kowalski675 wrote:

97th choice wrote:

I hang my bikes from a beam in the garage which works quite well.

Blah blah hero blah motorcycle blah blah me blah blah blah .

Blah blah blah, sad, bitter old tosser, blah blah blah.

97th choice

cooldad wrote:

97th choice wrote:

cooldad wrote:

You need to understand Yeehaa is a tiny Welsh midget, so anything over a foot needs a stepladder.

I'm welsh, I just didn't realise we had d1cks that small.

You've never looked in the mirror?

Ahh bless, you must be his little b1tch.

cooldad

I believe it is pronounced bee atch