So I Fitted a Sliding Hook Storage System

Surely they’ll need to be more than 150mm apart?

You’re hanging from the centre of the tyre (roughly) so you’ll have half a wheel diameter one side and length of fork & cockpit etc the other side.

Technical question…

Assuming similar bar height across your bikes could you mount two rails on the rafters 150mm or so apart and hang alternate bikes from a different rail to enable handle bars to slide past each other?

I always find hanging a bike from its rear wheel a faf!

I may be misunderstanding this, but you would still have to shuffle the bikes about on the front rack to create space to load a bike onto the back rack? You’re also going to lose storage space by pushing the bikes further out from the wall.

Much easier to just hang a bike up by the rear wheel. I do this with one of the bikes on my rack, to create a bit of extra space, and it is no harder than hanging it from the front wheel.

This post inspired to pull my finger out, annoyingly after measuring and checking I dont have enough space to mount my bikes this way as the bikes will intrude too much into the useable space!

Off to look at steadyracks which tilt side to side to get em closer to the wall!

I dont have enough space to mount my bikes this way as the bikes will intrude too much into the useable space!

Off to look at steadyracks which tilt side to side to get em closer to the wall!

If you do something like my photos on the previous pages, you can swivel the hooks to any angle you like, and get even closer to the wall than a Steadyrack. I have rails on both sides of the garage, and on one side I have the rail mounted close to the wall with spare wheels hanging flat, and a bike that is actually parallel to the wall.

Bear in mind that tilting might not save as much room as you think, especially if you have any wide handlebars.

OK this is great!

9 bikes in the space that used to contain 4

If you put them big/small and made the bars in line with the top tube front wheel off you works get even more per metre?

Maybe – I’ve got a mix of hooks up there and tbh i’m not that short on space now! Once I move the coat rack there’s loads of space. The unichannel is 3m and extends in front of the door so I have manouverability space.

If moving bikes around frequently is something that you want then this is a great solution, my mates a spark and suggested using m8 threaded hooks and ‘zebs’ https://directchannel.uk.com/product/m8-plain-channel-nuts-galvanized-box-of-100/ and washers. Ghetto but cheaper than this already relatively cheap solution

We have a Stashed system in our garage (10 bikes take up a lot of floor space!) which is really good. I think they take up about 50% of the footprint now. It wasn’t cheap, but I’m lazy and just wanted to buy something that worked.

The only annoyance is when you push them all together to create space, it’s always the bike you want with its bars the other way round & you have to pull them all apart to get to it, and of course something is now occupying the space you need to slide them in to…

@fathomer

the garage ceiling is far to high

This is one of the reasons unistrut and allthread is so versatile.  Standard installation practise is all-thread to support the unistrut from high ceilings, its actually pretty rare to see it attached directly to the ceiling.  Where you want to remove any wobble, L brackets and shorter lengths of unistrut are used to brace it off a nearby wall and/or hang it instead of using all-thread, but once you’ve got a few bikes on there I think they will hold it pretty steady whilst you hook another on.  You could also fix the strut to both end walls and then the all-thread in the middle would purely be to add support in the middle.

I have just completed my sliding rail system using this

https://www.runners-uk.com/series-20-2m-galvanized-steel-top-track/

and these

https://www.runners-uk.com/series-20-single-axle-steel-wheel-hanger-30-x-80-5mm-fixing-plate-35kg-capacity/

and these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C1SF3D59?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Total cost c. £150 for 4m with 10 hooks.

I can hang 9 bikes (mixture of flat and curly bars) all by their front wheels in 2.6m with 1m spare to shuffle them along the track.

I had to cut down the hooks and drill a new hole at 90 degrees to the existing pre drilled holes. A single M6 bolt fixes the hook to the hanger.  There is plenty of wiggle room without the hook needing to swivel.

I suspended the rail from a newly built shelf which provides useful storage above and lowers the bikes down to just hovering above floor level. Unfortunately my calculations were based on my Dawes Galaxy being my longest bike, however my Longitude with a mudhugger just kisses the floor with the end of the hugger, but they all slide very easily.  I haven’t experimented with hanging any bikes from the back wheel yet.

As has been stated in other posts the 10th hook is looking lonely and desperately seeking a load!

Pics?