DIY hanging bike storage
The family collection of bikes has outgrown the space in the home office/garage so I am thinking of some sort of vertical storage.
The walls are stud walls so I am thinking of a free standing frame or else screwing a batten to the joists in the roof space and hanging them from that..
If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated such as how close can you hang the bikes and the best sort of hooks to use.
Thanks
The walls are stud walls so I am thinking of a free standing frame or else screwing a batten to the joists in the roof space and hanging them from that..
If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated such as how close can you hang the bikes and the best sort of hooks to use.
Thanks
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I tend to put the least used up first (so this time of year it's my TT bike) - then out from there. The most used ones are on the ground - ie my commute bike! All in all we had 18 bikes for a while in the garage last year.
I store my bikes in an old coal bunker which is about 1 metre wide, the hooks are screwed directly into the concrete roof and I can get three in there hanging from the back wheels. You only need enough space to ensure the handlebars clear the frame of the next bike if you can stagger the hooks, but I guess in your case that'll mean two beams.
The idea of the least used bike in the corner is a good one too.
up and back wheel up. There is space to put things on the floor under the bikes . The plastic coating on the hooks is not very durable so I wrapped several layers of duct tape over the plastic. Each bike is lock and chained to its neighbour. It all works fine in the minimum space.
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Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
Scott CR1 SL 12
Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
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One tip for calculating space, line all your bikes up on the floor upside down to see how many you can fit into as smaller space as possible.
Not all the bikes have a QR, single speed and kids bikes, so wheels off wouldn't work for all of them. Might try that for the ones by the door though.
All my bikes hang from the screwfix version of these using M12 wall plugs in concrete blocks.
If you have stud just fit 4x2 batten and screw em into that.
I did used some old road innertube cut up and slid over the hooks as the rubber started to break up
Mine are also staggered as said.
I was going to hang them all from hooks screwed into the ceiling joists, as I've done for the tandems, but my wife complained that she wouldn't be able to hang her bikes up herself if the hooks were that high, so I made up a frame to hang them a couple of feet lower, which she can reach. I also lined the top of the frame with ply to give myself an additional large storage shelf.
The hooks are just standard storage hooks I purchased from a local hardware store. The rubber padding on the hooks wasn't much, so I augmented it by cutting short lengths of garden hose, dipping the hose in boiling water to soften it, and pushing it onto the section of the hook that the wheels contact.
Is that in a garage or something?
Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
Scott CR1 SL 12
Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
Scott Foil 18
It doesn't look nearly as neat now. That photo was taken just after we moved in...
Went for a batten screwed through the ceiling into the rafters and then fitted with plastic covered hooks from Screwfix
And I bought an extra hook. There might now be space for N+1 in my life