OT: thoughts on indoor home bike storage options?

[Brian Kenneth Coyne]

Hi all,

My wife and I are moving into a new apartment soon where we'll likely have to keep our 4 bikes in the spare bedroom. (No garage and the backyard is only accessible through the apartment.)

Wondering if anyone has ideas / experience on what product or strategy works well for indoor bike storage? So far we're either considering either:

A wall-mounted bike rack for multiple bikes, like this: https://www.wayfair.com/storage-organization/pdp/monkey-bar-storage-monkey-bars-wall-mounted-bike-rack-erx1052.html

Or 4 of these "Bike Nook" racks, which have the benefit of being easily moveable and not requiring major drilling into the wall: https://getbikenook.com/

Many thanks in advance for any ideas!

Brian

[Christine Ryan]

Hmmm--I hadn't seen these options! The Wayfair one looks like it'd work just fine, as long as you don't mind lifting the bikes. (The Bike Nooks are interesting, but I do wonder how stable they are...I can imagine banging into one and the whole thing toppling over.)

I researched a bunch of racks a while back for our (Wirecutter's) guide to indoor bike storage. I quite liked the Delta Michelangelo, as did a bunch of SF2Gers, though it does take up more wall space than the Wayfair one would. You don't really have to drill into the wall, although the instructions do say you should. (Maybe if you have small kids who might be tugging on it?) I had one in my living room for years, and never bothered to attach it.

Now I'm gonna order a Bike Nook and give it a try...

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[Scott Crosby]

for absolute utility and flexibility of configuration it's hard to beat the Rubbermaid Fasttrack system. not gonna win you any interior design awards - probably better suited for a garage aesthetically - but super strong, super easy to move wheel hooks around, and can take other non-bike accessories like broom hooks (helmet holders, in my garage) etc. if you install two rails in parallel you can achieve maximum bike density by staggering the handlebars. you will have to drill several holes in the wall, however, so get a good studfinder. 

forgive the chaotic state of the garage in this photo, but you can see I'm hanging a tandem, a heavy mountain bike, and a bunch of others.

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[Brett Lider]

For display in our home, we use https://cycloc.com/ps/

Something like https://www.cb2.com/wood-bike-storage/s503046 would fit in better with traditional decor

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[Darrin Ward]

i used the rubbermaid fasttrack system in an old apartment.
yeah not going to win you design awards but it worked really well.

currently using a different manufacturer's take on the cb2 wood thing.

my personal two cents, is that i prefer things drilled into walls into
studs and not easily moveable.
the memory of my experience being in a major earthquake is still quite
strong 30 years later.

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[Brian Kenneth Coyne]

Thank you for all these ideas!

I think for space reasons we'll need one of the ones where the bikes mount vertically / perpendicular to the wall, so currently intrigued by this one from the Wirecutter article: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004N9BUEY/?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AwEAAAAAAAAAAOxE&th=1

Brian

[Patrick Kitto]

that cant be a Scrosby garage. I only spot seven bikes and less than half are cannondales...

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:14 AM Scott Crosby <scr...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jakob Foerster]

If you are looking for something to show off your bike: "✌ Bike Racks from PARAX® • Design Made in Germany!" https://parax.de?lang=en&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsqmEBhDiARIsANV8H3YfP4VvDRKPg8ZrRfJSn48MUMyCDdsY0XTM9pWeycSBL8hOfo3yPOMaAtbyEALw_wcB

(My little brother makes these in Germany)

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[Chris Merrill]

If anyone wants one of the CB2 wooden racks, we have a spare (don't ask)!

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[Scott Crosby]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:06 Patrick Kitto <patric...@gmail.com> wrote:

that cant be a Scrosby garage. I only spot seven bikes and less than half are cannondales...

there is another (garage).

[Zoe Hoster]

If you don't want to drill into the walls, I recommend the Minoura hanging rack  Minoura Freestanding Bike Rack | Wayfair. I used it in a previous apartment that had no garage or basement storage. 

+1 to the rubbermaid tracker. I installed it in my parents' garage a while back on recommendation from this group.