Garage bike storage

I got the 3m rail from FH Brundle here

https://www.fhbrundle.co.uk/products/41K0753__Light_Duty_Top_Track_3_Metres_K075

The tracks are these

https://www.fhbrundle.co.uk/products/41PP075__4_Wheel_Light_Duty_Hanger_K075

I did look for the park hooks but they are mega expensive so, I got some from screwfix here

https://www.screwfix.com/p/smith-locke-heavy-duty-screw-in-anti-slip-round-storage-hook-black-103mm/5525j

I had to grind off the wood thread and then tap an 8mm thread on it using a die but pretty simple

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For the wall mounted options, what are you using for security? My bikes are on the floor nose to tail, with ground anchors and chains through the frames. I’d prefer to wall mount but am concerned about theft.

Ground ankors as well as a load of other security before you even get to the bikes

I use one of these. 2 Bikes alternating direction allowing for handlebars, so they stick out less. I take front wheel off each and they can hang in end of prongs. Then lean 2 alternating below.
Wall mounted

For the wall mounted options, what are you using for security?

A ground anchor, but drilled into the breeze block wall at approx waist height. Seems fine, might even offer a bit more resistance to E.g. a pneumatic drill attack.

We only have a couple of bikes in the garage but I built a high workbench with a kitchen worktop on top and put them underneath with front wheels off.

Put a floor anchor in and a cushioned area for the forks to live on.

Allows to curtain them in and have a work space above.

For more bikes I would do the same and stand them up in guides to they can be wheeled out independently. With the front wheels off, the bars can be turned and make width space taken a fair bit narrower.

Bit of a faff compared to some but a lot of the time the bikes come out to go straight into the car, so front wheel off isn’t a bad thing.

I have a scaffold pipe across the end of the garage and hang bikes by the seats. 8 fit with care and as some are used infrequently I dont mind tangling the bars. Another 4 hang above these from the roof, and the commuter lives by the door. Two work stands have the usual ongoing maintainence projects so thats most stored. All ones live in another shed.

I moved house last year and thought I would treat myself to the stashed space rail and to be honest I’ve been pretty disappointed with it, certainly not worth the money IMO.

Interested in why you’re disappointed in the stashed rail. It looks like a great solution and well thought through, my reservation was purely cost.

The stashed space rail is very high quality but the length of rail you get is incredibly stingy, I ordered the kit to suit 4 bikes, I’ve got 2 mountain bikes, a gravel bike and a road bike on there and there is just no space between them.

They advertise it as you being able to rotate the bikes while hung but in my experience because they’re so close together if you try and spin a bike that’s one of the middle two the wheel that’s hanging on the hook will catch the empty hook on the end or the bike next to it.

It is nice being able to bunch them close together to chain them up and to a wall anchor though.

I’ve tried all sorts of straight and angled wall hooks and sideways hanging.

Even if technically the bikes take up less space, they always feel more intrusive as wall hanging means all the pointy bits are at eye level, it prevents you from storing much above or below the bikes, and of course the old struggle when you’ve unhooked the bike and then find a pedal:spoke or brake:hose want to hang out together.

I’ve settled on a pallet rack (or you could use the scaffold hanging pole) in conjunction with a huge shelf above the bikes for all your other stuff. I can quickly change the pallet spacing with an impact driver if I don’t like how the bikes are sitting, you can pivot the free end to make more space and easy to chain them to floor anchors.

Thanks to this post making me realise how much space I’d save storing our bikes vertically I have ended up here.

Multitude of options out there but I ended up with some bike specific hooks from Screwfix and I thought I’d try the Hiplock Jaws for the kids bikes which seem absolutely excellent.

Currently I’ve got a shed only, so space and available height is an issue all round.
I’ve found mounting them vertically without the front wheel takes up very little space.
I’ve got 2 other bikes stored elsewhere, but could comfortably squeeze another in. I can access each bike without touching the other and the front wheel gets fitted within a minute. Usually the most ridden bike is left assembled standing up normally.

@ads678 how are you hanging the bikes from the scaffold pole? I can’t get past using an ‘S’ hook to the front wheel, but then that would mean the bike is parallel not perpendicular 🤔

By the saddle, surely? Just hooked over with back wheeled raised off the ground…no?

Ah, no I was thinking of using a scaffold pole fixed off the garage roof beams, and the bikes hanging off that vertically, as a DIY version of the stashed rail… stashed

@paul_m it was the 80Z rail and carriages
https://www.rollingcenter.co.uk/products/Rolling-Center-80Z-galvanised-monorail-track?variant=25790

@roger_mellie (this is based on my complete lack of actual experience of this!) So you get your scaffold pole and get it stuck in to the beams, once in you get some of those sky hooks from Screwfix and you drill a few pilot holes in the scaffold and then screw the sky hooks in (the pilot holes will likely be done with a very small drill bit and then ave to be worked out with larger drill bits until the hole can get the start of the sky hook to catch. The sky hooks are probably intended for wood so may not have a strong thread.

@jonk (or any one else that’s done it) – how tricky is it to grind the wood thread off those hooks?

I’m guessing it doesn’t need to be some sort of high precision thing, but do you just remove the thread with a rasp or grinder, then chuck an M8 die over it and hope it cleans up the non-round bits? I’d probably get a super cheap die so not worried about trashing the tool in the process, but I’d look to do seven or eight hooks to allow me to store wheels as well as bikes.

I bought a bunch of the Park M8 threaded hooks earlier in the year with the intention of making my own rail system – they’re still in the packaging.  Winter project I reckon.

Just spotted this – think they might be new.

Sliding Bike Storage Track With Hooks -Others (bullerltd.co.uk)

This one, I think…..? Looks good.

https://www.bullerltd.co.uk/sliding-bike-storage-rack-track-with-hooks-en.html

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This one, I think…..? Looks good.

Oops yes that one _ I do need to check links after posting. Thanks

Rolling centre for me, with some machine thread park tools hooks (m8 thicker for the ebike weight)

@jonk – could you go into a bit of detail about removing the wood threads from those hooks? Do you basically just take a grinder to the thread until it looks round-ish, then stick a die over the result?

I’ve got the FH brunde stuff – the cars seem to stick very, very randomly, but it’s entirely possible I’ve fitted the rail on the wonk or something…

@bentudder :

flatness of the ceiling

screws used the fix the rail need to be flatter than normal wood screws, I drilled the holes out abit so the screws fit more flush

Grinding the threads is done by eye – I’ve seen that bike parks aka wooly hat shop are selling the correct hooks for £8

I just took an angle grinder and ‘trimmed’ the threads off needs to be 9mm ish of meat to put the 8mm thead on

I’m in the greater manchester area, if you need help with it send me a message and i’ll come over and help you no problems

I bought a pack of wall hooks and bent the tops over.

neat solution nedrapier.  can you recall where you got the hooks?  They look like they could accommodate a 2.8 tyres?

I wonder if my cheaper skate approach might work. 4m of track & 10 cars for £115 plus unknown postage.

I haven’t bought the garage yet so not going to push the button but if anyone would like to be the test dummy – feel free to report back. Please note I am not responsible for a pile of damaged bikes and mangled track!

https://www.runners-uk.com/cart/

I bought the FH Brundle track and the trucks with an M8 threaded stud. I drilled a hole in a small piece of wood, bolted that to the truck, and then screwed a standard hook to the wood (I used a mix of the red plastic coated hooks and Decathlon hooks) so no grinding required.

I ended up making some locking pins with springs and bolts I had lying around. These fix the hooks in place and stop the trucks running away when hanging the bikes, but allow me to release them if I want to rearrange things.

Nice – thank you @jonk and Ned! I’m going to try grinding down and tapping, since I have a cheap M8 die sitting around and haven’t got the angle grinder our for a while. 🙂 All the bikes are dangling from hooks with wood screw threads at the moment, attached to the cars with ply. I’ll probs get grinding next week and will post pics here.

I’ve used the same brackets as you, Ned, to dangle the track from the ceiling of our garage, packing them out to get everything level. That took a bit of work as the person that built it (I’m guessing the deranged concrete enthusiast whose work I’ve spent a decade removing from our garden) also seems to have liked beams – every 30cm for a light, uninsulated flat roof. The floor plan of the garage is a very sight parallelogram, which added to the chuckles when my brother and I removed the corrugated concrete sheet roof and replaced it with a coated steel one. I think our amateur concrete fan may have had one leg shorter than the other or a squint on top of their poor understanding of cement hydration.

I’m tempted to get a chonky beam, fit it crossways and then screw the track in to that, removing the support cradles. That’ll have the added effect of moving the hooks down a bit to save my back a bit.

How wide are people doing their rails?

Suggestions for 3 adult MTBs please. Two without front wheel but they do have standard length front mudguards (RRP/Mudhugger). I have a neat little bit of room 117cm wide (so handlebars can’t overlap beyond the rail ends), can’t imagine getting more than two in there unless one goes upside down.

The stashed space rail is very high quality but the length of rail you get is incredibly stingy, I ordered the kit to suit 4 bikes, I’ve got 2 mountain bikes, a gravel bike and a road bike on there and there is just no space between them.

I see their 114cm rail comes with up to 4 hooks, which seems woefully inadequate. I can imagine maybe you fit 4 road bikes on that, two facing up and two down, with the handlebars perhaps extending beyond the edge of the rail.

I have 7 bikes hanging on a 3m rail, including 3 MTBs, and there’s a gap with some boxes in it where you could comfortably fit another bike in. You might squeeze 3 MTBs in 117cm if you alternated them up and down, and adjusted the hook heights to avoid bars clashing. However, I can’t see you having any adjustment room, so would there be any point in fitting a rail system, rather than just using fixed hooks?

Good point. Can’t drill any holes so was thinking of making something like the freestanding spacerail out of aluminium scaffolding poles and fittings.

I don’t think I want any of the bikes upside down anyway. Maybe I could tolerate the rigid MTB being, it’s effectively my gravel bike so the brakes just need to work.

What about a Key System * tubular handrail. Their fittings are cast and smooth.

*Other brands are available

hooks are rubbish imo. You come home absolutely knackered and cold and have to wiggle the wheel onto them. Get some of these.

They stick out but you can just throw your bike at them

drat. Dosnt work. Search bison bike dock on amazon

The Bike Dock – Vertical Storage for 1 Bike

But the hooks on a rail allow you to slide the bikes closer together and turn then sideways, a fixed mount doesn’t give that flexibility.

I don’t think I want any of the bikes upside down anyway. Maybe I could tolerate the rigid MTB being, it’s effectively my gravel bike so the brakes just need to work.

I’ve stored bikes hanging from front / back wheels for abut 20 years now and honestly can’t say I’ve ever had an issue