Bike Rack Advice / Input Required

[TYGA]

I've managed to get  the go-ahead for some bike racks to be installed at our head office and wanted to get some input from the fellow hubbers. Got a space around 1 parking bay of size and was thinking of the following:

1. Get a bar parallel to the ceiling and hang bikes by hooking the seat over the bar.

 

2. Get wheel hooks on the wall and hang the bikes from the front / back wheel against the wall as you often see in bikeshops. Will probably use the least space but is their any chance of damage to your wheel storing your bike in this fashion?

 

3. Get old-school bike racks made like you usually have at school / campus where the bike is parked flat on a rail and the front wheel gets shoved into a slot.

 

I guess it'll be used mostly for commuters so a mix and match of bikes would be stored there.

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[Nix M2]

I don't suggest option 3. We had a bike rack like that installed and everyone moved it out of the way and rested the bikes against the wall!!

So we had a bar put it. I still lean my bike against the wall, but everyone else is thrilled with it!

[TYGA]

I have a bar at home for my bikes and it grafts quite well, wonder if the weight of the bike hanging from the wheel will cause any damage to wheels / shocks.

[Nix M2]

I don't think it does, maybe over a long period of time???

[Slowbee]

do you just use a straight bar ?

 

 

[TYGA]

Ya at home I just zip tied an old round stainless pipe, I think it used to be a shower curtain rail, to two of the big hooks people often use to hang bikes up, to the ceiling rafters.  Now my bikes are all nicely out the way hanging by hooking the nose of the seat over the bar. No mess no fuss and you can shift them side to side depending on which one you want to take down.

[turtlek]

i hang my bikes up by the front or back wheel and have done it for close to three years now never once have i had the issue of anything being wrong with any of my bikes and there are 4 hanging up