Bike storage in a small apartment.

[toast2266]

Hey, if it works for you that's fantastic. I'm sure some people love their roof mount racks as well.
How does your wife do with getting her ebike up into the hook? Mine's lost a lot of brute strength in the last decade(s), and now has no patience either.

She's fine with hoisting the ebike, although she doesn't ride that thing very much. Like I said, the key is just making it so the hooks are at the right height so it's not much of a lift. I mounted the 2x6 at a slight angle so different hooks are at different heights. Bigger bikes go at the taller end, shorter bikes at the shorter end, and all of them are pretty close to the ground.

I definitely don't love my roof rack. I dislike it slightly less than having a hitch rack on my car though.

[gramboh]

Good points guys. Wife acceptance factor is a big one here. Really it will be for her commuter/gravel type bike which isn't that light. She's strong enough to boost it up onto a hook but I have a feeling she will end up just wheeling it into garage and leaning it on something and I'll be the one putting it away when I want the space... not a big deal but something to consider.

[singlesline]

I have ceiling hooks to keep them clear of the car. Hooks are in the ceiling roughly a foot from the wall so when the bike hangs, the wheels both rest on the garage wall...but that does create a problem for the wife.

I think she is capable via wheelieing and then rolling the bike up the wall and hooking it...but she can't do that if my car is actually in the garage. I am able to just lift her bike in the air, turn it flat, and carry it out over the car, but I'm taller and stronger than she is. Luckily she doesn't really ride unless I'm also riding so it doesn't create problems.

The oversize Park hooks are worth the extra couple of bucks. Bigger than the hardware store hooks so they fit big MTB tires fine without fiddling (I don't have the big fat bike hooks, just the MTB version) and higher quality plasti-dip.

Regarding the small apartment aspect of this thread, I previously used a setup I built from an Ikea closet tension rod:


Kept them out of the way. With a little adjustment, you can have a third bike on the ground leaning against the bottom bike although that starts to take up more floor space/look worse/makes it hard to get the bottom bike.

Doesn't work as well with modern MTBs without playing a bunch of games with how you set up the hooks. Even most modern road geometry leaves you with bikes at a funny angle if you can't offset the hooks.

[adrenalated]

Bump.

I have the opposite problem as a lot of folks here. I have plenty of floor space, but limited wall space due to a window being in the way.

Good solutions to organize 3-4 mountain bikes so that one can easily pull out the bike of choice without the others being in the way? Holds bike horizontally (wheels on the ground), wall mounted or heavy enough to not move around, DIY or doesn't cost several hundreds of dollars would be ideal.