hanging bikes from bicycle hooks.

[UnfitnessFreak]

Good day smart people. I like to keep my garage tidy and I'm thinking of hanging the bikes on the wall using those bike hooks you can buy from the hardware store. I've noticed some people do it.

 

Is this advisable? Does it damage the rims at all? They do have plastic sheaths around the hooks, but I'm not sure a bike is designed to be hung like that.

 

Comments please.

 

[fees]

Go to your LBS and get a bike rack that you put on the wall. It is adjustable and gets bolted into the wall. The hook is very small and covered in rubber. Should set you back about R100. I have 2 bikes in my garage and it is very neat.

[Tumbleweed]

i've also seen a cool locally made product in sportsmans warehouse. it's got a "basket" type thing from which two hooks protrude. and the bike hangs paralell to the wall. that should allay your fears about damage to the bike.

 

that said, i have most of my bikes hanging like that in my bike room at home.   

[GFishy]

Bike Room - now that sound good

 

Better than garage!

[Tumbleweed]

haha, gfishy!

it is cool. when i first moved in to my house, i chose the biggest room in the house for the lounge. and chose a smaller room to house my bikes. that's changed. i swapped them round!

 

yeah, it's kinda cool to have a bike room. i love mine. got hold of some old old bike shop signage - schwinn, giro, kona, giant, etc- hanging on the walls. my old bar counter is pushed back up against the wall and atop it sits my occ stingray in front of pics of the boys racing. tools hang on the wall. wheels and helmets hanging everywhere.

  

[GFishy]

Workshop comes bike room comes chillout room come almost bike shop...

[Tumbleweed]

definitely chill-out room. i have a yoga mat and physio ball in there too. that's where i keep my espresso machine on the bar, so you can enjoy your cappuccino on the park tool bar stools (hey, that rhymes!). i've also got one of those old school desks, where i sit and piece a jigsaw puzzle of a bicycle together.  

[GFishy]

All well...just no puzzle please...Start getting signed cycling memoribilia

[Skye]

So if I understand correctly this room is INSIDE your house?? So would I be wrong, if I said YOUR ARE LUCKY YOU ARE NOT MARRIED!!!!

 

Nope Windbreaker don't even let it cross that active mind of yours..... My car already parks outside because of all the bikes on my SIDE of the garage. 

[cyclenut]

Much of a muchness - I use all kinds depending on the space available.

 

Bike Room: Floor stand: Tandem, Road bike, wife's road.

I've tried to just leave them on their own but they fall over cos generraly they're 2 tired ....

 

Training Room: Spin Bike (for the wife), Training bike on floor stand next to rollers. 

 

 

Garage: 5 bike rack- vertical - MTB's (lock the suspension first) and track

Garage: single verticals- spare road bikes for friends and projects / work in progress

Garage: horizontal racks - odd frames - wannabe's and has beens

 

I suspend my MTB's from the from the front wheel - as "nose-down" is not good for hydrolics - remember to lock-out

Road bikes suspend from the rear-wheel: just a preference - spare bikes are Alu frames and I'm not comfortable with too much weight on the front drop-outs, they seem to "balance" better this way.

 

Single bike-hooks are also good for wheels bags, spare tires.

 

 

[Skye]

 

Much of a muchness - I use all kinds depending on the space available.

 

Bike Room: Floor stand: Tandem' date=' Road bike, wife's road.

I've tried to just leave them on their own but they fall over cos generraly they're 2 tired ....

 

Training Room: Spin Bike (for the wife), Training bike on floor stand next to rollers. 

 

 

Garage: 5 bike rack- vertical - MTB's (lock the suspension first) and track

Garage: single verticals- spare road bikes for friends and projects / work in progress

Garage: horizontal racks - odd frames - wannabe's and has beens

 

I suspend my MTB's from the from the front wheel - as "nose-down" is not good for hydrolics - remember to lock-out

Road bikes suspend from the rear-wheel: just a preference - spare bikes are Alu frames and I'm not comfortable with too much weight on the front drop-outs, they seem to "balance" better this way.

 

Single bike-hooks are also good for wheels bags, spare tires.

 

 

[/quote'] This brings me to a all new topic!!! Why do families need more than one bike each?? Cyclenut I thought my better 1/2 was bad until I read your posting Is this a man thing or have I just missed the plot some where??

 

[Tumbleweed]

So if I understand correctly this room is INSIDE your house?? So would I be wrong' date=' if I said YOUR ARE LUCKY YOU ARE NOT MARRIED!!!!

Nope Windbreaker don't even let it cross that active mind of yours..... My car already parks outside because of all the bikes on my SIDE of the garage.  [/quote']

 

yip, it's the first thing you see on the way into my house. the lounge is now the cramped room on the right!

 

windbreaker, garages are no places for bicycles! every house should have a bike room! 

 

All well...just no puzzle please...Start getting signed cycling memoribilia

 

good idea. got a signed piccie of david "i p!ss excellence" zabriskie. and an old mapei cap signed by robbie hunter!

[Fork-it]

I suspend my MTB's from the from the front wheel - as "nose-down" is not good for hydrolics - remember to lock-out

Road bikes suspend from the rear-wheel: just a preference - spare bikes are Alu frames and I'm not comfortable with too much weight on the front drop-outs' date=' they seem to "balance" better this way.

 

 

 

[/quote']

 

Anyone else got an opinion on this, never thaught of it that way.

what if MTB doesn't have a lockout?

Would it be okey to hang bikes on both wheels, upside down from the ceiling?

[cyclenut]

 

This brings me to a all new topic!!! Why do families need more than one bike each?? Cyclenut I thought my better 1/2 was bad until I read your posting Is this a man thing or have I just missed the plot some where??

 

Sorry Skye.

Just to set the record straight - I'm probably more fanatical than talented.  But yes it is getting a bit crowded - I'm trying to find another 5-bike rack to clean things up in the garage - but this will leave a few empty hooks - can you see the dilemna

 

Investing in people is more important than investing in bikes, I spent a fair amountt of last year changing stems and seatposts on 2 bikes etc for people to come and try out the sport. Three or four them have subsequently bought their own bikes, but there's more people interested so this year, to make life easier, the plan is to have a spare of each of the following: 52cm, 54cm, 56cm, 58cm, 60cm. 

If you have any of these lying around and will accept R2000-R4000 then give me a shout.

[Skye]

 

Holy.... I hope you don't do the romantic dinners at your place with the Candle, Dimmed lights, soft back ground music... AS IT AIN'T GOING TO WORK BUDDIE!!!!!

Skye2008-01-13 23:30:06

[Tumbleweed]

Holy.... I hope you don't do the romantic dinners at your place with the Candle' date=' Dimmed lights, soft back ground music... AS IT AIN'T GOING TO WORK BUDDIE!!!!! [/quote']

 

oh, but it does! the candlelight casting all those angled shadows from bike frames and hanging wheels?what girl wouldn't be blown away by that?

 

and i, like cyclenut, an more fanatical than talented! but to answer your question: you start off needing at least one road bike and one mountain bike. then need another mountain bike (so one full-sus, one hardtail). you get a fixie to commute to the pub and back. the bmxes were picked up along the way. hanging onto them for the boys. the stingray is more about form than function these days, sitting as it does on the bar. then there are the boys' bikes (and on their race weekends their other bikes from the mum's house). this is another mtb that i couldn't bring myself to part with (but that lives at my brother's house!