How To Install Bike Hooks In A Garage

Past Jim Langley

Last week'southward cavalcade on hanging bicycles on bike hooks – a versatile and easy way to safely store route bikes – elicited helpful comments, questions and suggestions. And then I'm following up with your tips, more photos and ideas.

Hook Hanging Tip 1: 'Fairing' carbon wheels are besides fragile to hang a wheel by them

The nigh important tip is from Marker Beaver, who commented, "Jim, I must add together a caveat to your hanging suggestions – if you have a wheelset that uses "carbon fairings," don't hang the bike by the wheels. Carbon wheels that are substantial, i.due east. the spoke nipples are mounted to the inside circumference of the carbon rim, are fine, generally.

"But some carbon wheels, such as models from HED or Bontrager Aura, employ an aluminum rim into which the nipples mount, and the carbon is a skin fairing; these are fragile and can exist damaged by vigorous hanging, such as dropping the bike on the claw likewise hard. If your spokes enter the carbon through a visible hole, don't hang 'em."

Great tip, Mark. If you lot're not sure whether you have the "fairing"-blazon carbon rims Mark is talking about, endeavour gently squeezing the rims. A "fairing" type will flex without very much finger pressure. If your carbon rims flex similar this, hang your wheel another manner, or switch out the cycle and then you're hanging it past a rim that tin can't be damaged.

Wheel Storage Hanging Tip 2: Hot engines might be chancy to hanging bikes

John Perlman also made an interesting point. He wrote, "I keep my bikes in exactly the fashion described, hanging from one wheel in the back of the garage. I realized after driving all over town one hot summer day that I was parking this hot engine correct under the bikes. It takes hours to absurd off and a lot of that heat is escaping through the radiator and grille, and too just radiating from the hood. So I've started trying to keep the auto as far as possible from the bikes. All that heat can't help the tires, brake fluid, etc."

That makes a lot of sense, John. Thanks for the tip!

Tip 3: Use a caster hoist/lift to hang bikes

Ed Downey shared this cool tip: "For nether $9 each, I went to Harbor Freight and purchased 4 of their Bicycle Lifts. They work great in my garage, and with them hung on the ceiling I still have six feet of caput clearance below the bikes."

Ed'south bike elevator solution hangs bikes right-side-up, past the seat and handlebars, non the wheels. I like the concept of existence able to pull the bike with pulleys because it requires less muscle and coordination than picking a cycle up. But, here in the earthquake-racked Bay Area, I would personally worry about all the pieces of this arrangement that accept to concord tight in lodge to proceed bikes from dropping. Withal, for less than $10, information technology's an ingenious culling to consider.

Some Helpful Bike Hook Storage Photos to Show Hanging Solutions

Since last calendar week, I was able to go a few more photos to show bikes hanging with hooks in various configurations. The description is below each photograph.

You can see in this one how bicycles hang nicely with hooks screwed into a wall. These hooks are in a wood wall. Find that the hooks were either screwed in at an angle or they aptitude to that angle from the weight of the bikes pulling downwardly on them over time. To the right yous can encounter a greenish bike hanging overhead past its wheels on 2 hooks.

This photograph shows how bikes hang from overhead hooks. Look closely and yous'll encounter that the bottom wheels are touching the wall. When bikes hang from overhead hooks like this, it's possible to swing themleft and right to go far easier to fit bikes in-betwixt and take bikes down. Y'all can do this with wall-hung bikes, as well, just the bikes aren't free to pin as much.

Finally, here's a photo of the raised wheel hooks in my garage. I mentioned how my rafters are so shut to my car roofs that there wasn't enough room to hang bikes overhead. To get around this, I tried hanging the bikes by both wheels then they wouldn't hang as low as they do when hung by i wheel. Only they were still likewise low.

The solution was getting a half dozen two x 4s and edifice elevated rows of hooks, one for the front bike and ane for the rear bike. The photo shows simply one of these rows. But you lot tin can clearly see how information technology's been constructed to get the bikes high enough to clear the cars (above the bottom of the rafters).

The vertical piece of light-colored 2 x iv only behind the blackness hook is the cardinal to raising the bikes. I cut enough of these to support the cantankerous members the hooks are screwed into. And so, the uprights were attached to the rafters and the cantankerous pieces screwed atop the uprights. My rack tin concur up to 30 bicycles hanging this way.

The one circumspection is that it tin be hard to elevator heavy bikes up and onto high hooks like this (recall beach cruisers). 30 years ago when I put this elevated rack in my garage, I had no trouble at all, simply at present I usually ask for help to get the portly bikes upwards and down. Dainty road bikes are notwithstanding no problem.

Thanks for all the great tips! And feel free to add more than in the Comments below.

Source: https://www.roadbikerider.com/follow-up-on-bicycle-storage-with-bike-hooks-d3/

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