It's only a cheap bike but it's my bike and i love it. Don't want to leave it outside or pay for secure storage. Not much room in my flat so......
My cycle storage solution
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joustmaster
offcumdun
Noted. I initially thought my friend who installed the mounting placed it too high but it's perfect. I have just rotated the outward peddle upwards and it's now above head height.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I have an alcove in my kitchen, currently home to a fridge freezer, that I'm planning to turn into a bike cupboard with bikes hung vertically. I've seen a similar arangement in a local bike coop workshop and it seems an efficient way of storing them - they have a rail with hooks on it, you just lift up and hang off the front wheel. At the moment my dining room has three bikes in it, with another under repair that will join them at some point, it'd be nice to keep them out of sight. I only have a tiny yard that has no room for a shed or locker.
No idea where I'm going to put my fridge freezer though, the dining room looks like the most likely option
No idea where I'm going to put my fridge freezer though, the dining room looks like the most likely option
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Nice. I've had to install a similar thing on an outside wall because there's no room in the house. Not ideal, but with a bike cover on and it all locked up it should suffice.
No fucking way I'm showing my missus this thread. She'll have me buying one of those and they look expensive...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
We have one of them in our dining room. It's the talk of the town.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Also looks like more hassle than I can be bothered with after a long ride tbh.
Wall mounted bike rack, got it from Argos ony £10. Product description says it can hold two bikes but i doubt it when attached to an interior wall.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3333901.htm
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Hmmm, I store three bikes in my shed. I'm so vanilla.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I need something pretty heavy duty because my Pashley freighter weighs a similar amount to Eric Pickles. I'm thinking a bar across the alcove (like one of those pull-up bars) with hooks. Mine's an Edwardian pile, so it'd be anchored into brick which should be fine.
Lemon Eddy
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Lemon Eddy
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Get a couple of swing hooks, a couple of pulley hooks, paracord or similar that's the right diameter for the pulley hooks, and a tie off. All in it'll cost you less than £20, and adding the pulleys in makes it a piss of piece to raise it up, then tie it off.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Anyone tried one of those metal outdoor storage lockers? Looks like you can get them used for a couple of hundred quid. Are they reasonably burglar proof ... ?
(Wife is about to get a bike and I already have two)
(Wife is about to get a bike and I already have two)
bi0boy
Power User
But then you can't crawl underneath it, something I'm sure the OP desires to do regularly.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Jealous. I have a large cupboard in the hallway which will soon be emptied to store our three bikes. Then I can see of it will accommodate a fourth...
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Do you think they would work for medium-sized family saloons? I don't really like leaving them outside but they'd take up too much room in the dining room. Car brackets would be perfect.
danski
"vibey"
You could fit a piece of ply that bridges two (or more) studs then fix the rack to the ply
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Well I gained a fifth bike from the boot sale today, plus the lodger has one (and is thinking about getting a winter bike too). The dining room is fucking ridiculous.
Two bikes shouldn't be hanging around long - one is an old Raleigh mountain bike to give away to whichever friend wants it, the other is the one I got today which I'll clean up and fix then sell on.
Outdoor bike lockers aren't an option for me as my back yard is tiny, plus someone round here would find a way in.
Two bikes shouldn't be hanging around long - one is an old Raleigh mountain bike to give away to whichever friend wants it, the other is the one I got today which I'll clean up and fix then sell on.
Outdoor bike lockers aren't an option for me as my back yard is tiny, plus someone round here would find a way in.
