What's your bike storage set-up?!
Ok city bikers! How and where do you store your bikes?! If you store them inside, what kind of set-up do you have? I'm in a one bedroom and after one of my bikes was stolen from the bike room I want to keep my other one inside and am looking for crafty inspiration for ways to display/store it!
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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on
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Ha! Love the pic. We went to Container Store - they are great for expanding collections and have some options.
But if it was just me (we have a lot of bikes between the two of us), I would love to do some of the Etsy creative options. Do a search on "bike storage" and they make bikes art on the wall. Here's one I really like:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/219191478/european-oak-bikehook-bike-s...
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Permalink Reply by David P. on
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I live in a three flat and keep my bikes in the shared basement / laundry room. I have good neighbors and don't have to worry about anything happening to them. My landlady gave me a key to the little workshop off the back landing and I keep surplus bikes, wheels, etc. there. And there is usually one bike on the stand in my sunroom / workshop. Overall, it's a great setup.
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin on
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I don't see these mentioned often, but I love the velo hinge (from feedback sports). I have four of them in the stairwell up to my second-floor apartment, and my roommates and I are able to store our bikes on the wall without really impeding our ability to carry things up and down the stairs because the design of the hook folds the bikes up against the wall. We can fit several bikes overlapping each other and then just hinge them out to access the ones we want. I can see about taking a picture when I get home tonight or tomorrow.
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Permalink Reply by Kelly Goldthorpe on
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Wow - this is great, and might be what I need! Would love to see that pic of your set-up. How scuffed have your walls gotten with the bike tires against the wall like that? Any solves?
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For me, scuffing hasn't been an issue with the wall surface we have.
This isn't the best picture, nor is it current (it's on another wall now and there are four bikes next to each other) but you can see the concept. The bike is perpendicular to the wall for easy removal.
And then it pivots over to lie flush. It's hard to see, but there's a little bumper down by the rear tire that keeps the bike oriented on the wall. I haven't noticed any scuffing from the tire, but I can't imagine that's as big an issue as the holes in the wall from mounting the bumper. Both are easily repaired come move-out.
One thing I have run into is if you overlap bikes they can't fold in as flush with the wall. If you have more width to work with on your wall, putting them far enough apart means that the thing extending the most is the handlebars - so not much if you have a road bike!
I'll try to get a picture tonight of what it looks like with multiple bikes. Hope this helps!
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It's a bit of a mess, but here's how we do four bikes on our landing. They used to overlap each other along the one long wall, but changing to this arrangement gave us more walking space even though it is less pretty.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Markus on
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The swivel wall hanging system is wonderful. I have used a leaning 2 bike rack but if I needed to fit a spot that could take some joustling I would consider doing a custom floor to ceiling rack that would use a 'jacking' screw to lock the rack into position. By having a firm anchorment you could even use a pulley system off an attached arm to put the bikes up to the ceiling thus out of the way more.
To be more specific about the jacking system think of a short arm at the floor just for 'balance' that would only need extend a foot or a lil' less. the rails would run from these 'arms' up to a set of sightly longer arms at the top with angled supports to handle the bike weight. At the top or bottom resides a screw jack ( think machinist jack or a miniature house lifting jack....I have used a T nut with a carriage bolt, the square shank of the bolt allowing tightening the assembly floor against ceiling) that allows the force of the short arm at the floor and the top arm to keep the rack stable and impervious to toppling. This floor to ceiling pressure eliminates any need for anchoring to the wall, saving holes/damage.
The concept was originally explored as a plant hanging rack using a 6X6 footprint to support four 4-5 foot long arms to support an absolute jungle of plants that a woodworking friend used to keep his green thumb wife to indoor garden to her hearts delight. This free standing design is easily converted for many applications which could include 2 or three tall storage of bikes with a footprint equal to just a single bike.
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Standard 5 bike floor rack.
Unfortunately, there are 7 bikes in my garage ATM.
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Permalink Reply by V W on
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I keep most of them in my apartment. I have a single bike stand which creates more room vs just having a bike on the floor because with a kickstand a bike will lean a bit and the front tire might go at an angle, taking up more horizontal space. I have a number of bikes in my house clustered around that one on that stand (I should probably get a second stand) plus more in a storage shed behind my place.
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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on
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In my last apartment, I stored my bikes in the dining room - leaning handlebars against the wall. No significant problems with scuffing. I had to be careful going in and out on the stairs to avoid any scuffing on the walls there.
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