Bike stands/ racks/ hooks for your bike shed

[MikeG]

I couldn't find a thread on this. Forgive me if it has been discussed.

What do you do? You have a shed, and multiple bikes. You don't want to lean bikes up against each other, and you don't want one of those wheel-wreckers.........yet you don't want to spend minutes faffing about putting the bike away at the end of each ride. What's the best option (and there are big bonus points for photos)?

 

[Drago]

I hang one up, I lean 6 against each other very carefully in the order I'm likely to use them, and with rags at the contact points to protect paintwork. The shed isn't enormous, 6 x 10', as that's the size of then footprint available to me, so not big enough to hang them all up. As the shed is for longer term storage only its nicely carpeted, with bike pictures etc hanging up, and is a pleasant retreat with a cup of Nespresso now and again

Bikes I'm working on or likely to use go in floor stands in the garage, 2 in there at the moment. Fortunately, Drago Manor was built in 1960 and the garage is a tandem double, but is only just wide enough for an Austin A35. Modern cars won't fit, so I've plently of room for incidental bike storage, workbench, motorbike, firewood store etc.

And finally, the bike I'm actually using going in my brick built porch so I can grab it with ease as I go out the door. So that's ten bikes, eight of mine and Mrs D's lesser used two, all accounted for.

 

[DCLane]

I have a single 5-bike stand and I'm about to add a second 4-bike stand put horizontally against this in an L-shape. In that set-up I can fit a total of 12 bikes because I slot others in between them the other way round.

It's in a standard single garage size but with a side garage door for easy access.

 

[MikeG]

Yeahbut.........what sort of stands? Floor stands........what does that mean? What do they look like? I've seen some horrors.

 

[Lozz360]

I use these from Decathlon £11.99.

 

[Drago]

My garage stand is a three-bike job like this...

Was about £20 on Amazon a few years ago.

 

[Roadhump]

I have a brick built garage with a concrete floor at the back of my long garden, but I don't use it as a garage, it has become a large garden shed where I store my tools, decorating gear, car washing gear etc, and my bikes - of mine and my wife's, which she never uses.

I thought about getting a metal stand put in so that I could lock my bikes to that, but it seems rather a lot of trouble and probably expensive, so I have my best bike behind 2 small wardrobes containing some of my tools etc, so it can't be seen easily, and lock it to my aluminium ladders, and also to an old car roof rack, and I put cloths on it to protect the paint work, then cover it with an old bedsheet. It takes about 2 minutes to get out and put back, which is probably what the OP wants to avoid.

My second bike is locked to an old suitcase and a wooden shelving unit, and I cover that with an old bedsheet too. I leave my 19 year old MTB which I rarely use now, and my wife's 17 year old never used bike unlocked as bait, so hopefully any thieves who manage to get past the 5 lever mortise lock and additional padlock will be off with them quickly before they notice and / or bother with my 2 better bikes.

If I know I am out early the following morning, I will get my bike and keep it in the kitchen overnight to save time.

 

[vickster]

I just lean mine carefully against each other in the Asgard

 

[MikeG]

I just lean mine carefully against each other in the Asgard

Yeah, that's what I do at the moment, hence the thread.

I quite like the look of these. Having buckled a wheel in a bikestand outside a bike shop on our Lejog 5 years ago, I am hyper conscious of stands which trap the wheel, but not high enough. The question "what happens if your bike starts falling over?" is the key one, I think, in deciding whether a stand is going to be OK.

 

[Mo1959]

Yeah, that's what I do at the moment, hence the thread.

I quite like the look of these. Having buckled a wheel in a bikestand outside a bike shop on our Lejog 5 years ago, I am hyper conscious of stands which trap the wheel, but not high enough. The question "what happens if your bike starts falling over?" is the key one, I think, in deciding whether a stand is going to be OK.

Oooo.....these look good and a decent price. Now why did you put that on here! I've spent too much lately.

 

[Ice2911]

4 hangers a tenner off eBay. I'm told I could get them closer together if I top and tail. Even left room for the n+1!

 

[youngoldbloke]

I use these -

Top and tail 3 bikes in my study. Freestanding. Easily repositioned, and no need to lean bikes against walls or each other. As used by many bike shops to display bikes. Available from many suppliers from around £15

 

[stephec]

I know you're out in the sticks Mike, but do you need some kind of security from them as well

 

[MikeG]

I know you're out in the sticks Mike, but do you need some kind of security from them as well

No, I don't. I haven't built the permanent bike shed yet, but when I do, there'll be a steel door and some serious locks.

 

[Milkfloat]

These are mine £8 for 4, I got 2 packs.