Show me your ceiling or wall mount solutions in garage
Show me your ceiling or wall mount solutions in garage
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wilbo83

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1,552 posts

194 months

Wednesday 7th June 2017
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Going to be moving into a house soon which has a fairly small integral garage so whilst I would like my bikes (currently have 4) stored in there, I would prefer if they didn't limit the usable floor space too much. Anyone got recommendations of storage solutions that are available on the market or can be made fairly simply? Thanks in advance

Edited by wilbo83 on Wednesday 7th June 21:34

GuinnessMK

1,608 posts

251 months

Wednesday 7th June 2017
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We have one of these in ours;

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/5-bike-wall-rack-id_49...

Can initially be a bit tricky getting the order and orientation of the bikes right, but we have the mountain bikes front wheels up (to keep the hydraulics and forks OK) on the outer two high hooks, then the road bikes on the low hooks, front wheel down. Then our little ones mountain bike in the middle.

And a f'ing big chain through the lot to a wall anchor.

Cupramax

10,999 posts

281 months

Wednesday 7th June 2017
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No pics, just used some large hooks screwed into the ceiling joists, from Screwfix, just go on their site and search Smith & Locke hook. Rubber coated so ideal for bike hanging and at £1.99 each you cant go wrong.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/smith-locke-heavy-duty-s...

Watchman

6,391 posts

274 months

Wednesday 7th June 2017
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Plastic coated hooks from Halfords - think they were about 4 quid each.




Not entirely convinced they represent the most space efficient storage but they make access to each bike easy.

neil-935ql

1,256 posts

135 months

Wednesday 7th June 2017
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These are very good , you can adjust the heights of the arms to fit your bike , found on wiggle £35

djone101

967 posts

313 months

Thursday 8th June 2017
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Used these in a cafe in Cambridge recently made by Cycloc - very neat - available from Wiggle




wilbo83

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1,552 posts

194 months

Thursday 8th June 2017
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Thanks for the ideas and photos so far. Some innovative solutions that I wasn't aware existed. Quite like the idea of having them the right way up against the wall, seems most space efficient.

milu

2,513 posts

295 months

Thursday 8th June 2017
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I have mine on the drop down hook brackets that Halfords sell for about £15 flat against the wall as last pic. This way takes up much less room than the vertical method I reckon.
I did look at the funky cyloc ones but figured for 3 of them it was an unnecessary expense(tight wad)

scrwright

3,157 posts

219 months

Thursday 8th June 2017
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Hav a mixture of hooks in the trusses to hook saddles onto, hooks on the wall to put front wheel in (think I will stop using this one, doesn't feel right) and a bar to hook the saddle nose over


spyder dryver

1,330 posts

245 months

Friday 9th June 2017
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Keep it simple. Two plastic coated hooks, one under the bars one under the seat.


47p2

1,890 posts

190 months

Saturday 10th June 2017
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Large single hook on each roof truss and hang them up by the wheel


AndrewGP

2,082 posts

191 months

Saturday 10th June 2017
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If you don't want to or can't wall mount them vertically, you could stagger them to the side like I've done using these. The advantage is the kids can just wheel them out (and more importantly wheel them back in again!) which they can't do if they're vertical.


JagBox

187 posts

182 months

Saturday 10th June 2017
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I use a Clug Roadie Mount. Clever piece of kit. Really good if space is tight.....


Some Gump

13,018 posts

215 months

Saturday 10th June 2017
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47p2 said:
Large single hook on each roof truss and hang them up by the wheel

You need more bikes.

47p2

1,890 posts

190 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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Some Gump said:
You need more bikes.
No I don't there are more on the other wall laughlaughlaugh

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

227 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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47p2 said:
Some Gump said:
You need more bikes.
No I don't there are more on the other wall laughlaughlaugh
nono n+1 :hehe

smn159

15,937 posts

246 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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Some Gump said:
You need more bikes.
What?

I'd assumed that was a picture taken in a bike shop!

hehe

Max5476

1,021 posts

143 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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Watchman said:
Plastic coated hooks from Halfords - think they were about 4 quid each.




Not entirely convinced they represent the most space efficient storage but they make access to each bike easy.
I considered doing this in my garage, but concluded that they would take up significantly more space than just leaning the 3 bikes against each other against the wall. To start saving space I would need a stand like this



But that wouldn't work at the moment, as the bike ares under the garage door. Its lucky I only ride one bike regularly.



Watchman

6,391 posts

274 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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Max5476 said:
Watchman said:
Plastic coated hooks from Halfords - think they were about 4 quid each.




Not entirely convinced they represent the most space efficient storage but they make access to each bike easy.
I considered doing this in my garage, but concluded that they would take up significantly more space than just leaning the 3 bikes against each other against the wall. To start saving space I would need a stand like this



But that wouldn't work at the moment, as the bike ares under the garage door. Its lucky I only ride one bike regularly.
The advantage is that you can get to each bike independently of the others. And I think once you get to 5+ bikes along one wall, possibly hanging them from alternating front wheel/rear wheel, you may start to see genuine space saving.

But with the 4 bikes I have there's no space saving and the kids can't get their own bikes down.

Once I'd screwed the hangers up there I decided we'd use them but I wouldn't​ recommend them without further consideration.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

227 months

Sunday 11th June 2017
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spotted this on a random google.
kinda like it vertical and folded to the side