the sci guy 

I ordered one of those Leonardo wall mounted racks where you stand your bike upright on it's back tire and - aside from the thing having completely incorrect directions, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how the mother to get my front tire into the damn tray. I don't know if you have to tilt it, turn it, wedge it, who knows. Furthermore, I think one of my issues was that the rims I have are very deep, which caused an issue trying to get the wheel around the hook.
This is the rack: https://www.amazon.com/Delta-Leonardo.../dp/B000FGTTEW

Can anyone recommend a rack that does the same thing, but allows easier access for such deep rims as we see on fixies/SS ??

Thanks!

Mumonkan

Scrodzilla

the sci guy 

Am I hiring him to stand in my garage and hold my bike up or something?

TenSpeedV2

"Fixies" have their own sized rims now?

the sci guy 

I think the rack is more designed for older style flatter rimmed wheels, whereas many wheelsets now have much taller rims (deep V? - maybe i'm using my terminology wrong I don't know), and I think this makes it harder for these wheels to easily be loaded into the rack. I mean, it must be possible because I am sure lots of roadies with their aero wheels use them, but who knows. I thought I'd ask here since its the same type of rim you see on purefix bikes, etc.

pitbullfan

I have two of those same (maybe not same brand) racks in my living room. I've never had issues fitting my "fixie sized" rims in the hooks. If you like, I'll take a pic of the setup when I get home from work and post it.

You do have the hook at the very top, and are trying to hang the bike vertical, correct?

the sci guy 

Haha I love your illustration.
Yes, that's the one, and yes the hook is at the top. I don't want the bike to hang, necessarily, the rear wheel can rest on the floor but yes it is vertical against the garage wall- the directions apparently don't call for that as where it had me mount it the bike was very far off the ground.
Besides that, and more importantly, I couldn't figure out how to easily get the front wheel in, and it took about 4 minutes to get it out once I managed to get it in - fighting it the whole time. Do you angle it the wheel? Turn it? Flip the bike upside down? Use a teleported? It was so aggravating. It's probably stupid easy and I'm just a moron, but, that's where I'm at...

Scrodzilla

Bill Nye may be a smart cookie when it comes to science but he certainly isn't very good at physics.

Night_shift

Sad thing is, he's not really good at science either. In fact, he's not even a scientist. He's a performer. He was a chemist or physicist (or something like that) in college and he got the bug to do comedy. If memory serves, initially via (failed) standup and then onto local radio. He parlayed the science stuff into his comedy and Bill Nye the Science Guy was born with his 1990s TV show.

People, stupidly, take what he says as scientific gospel, even though in reality he's just another talking head. Not saying he's a bad guy but he's about as much of a scientist as Liberace is strait.

Scrodzilla

I was talking about the OP, not the real Bill Nye.

Night_shift

I see no reason we can't apply that to both.

prooftheory

Either bend the hook farther down or use something else. You don't need a degree to figure that out.

Unkle Rico

I can only recommend one tool for this job..

pitbullfan

Dang y'all...I'm just glad it's not another "Which bike do I get?" threads.

So check it...I'm no physicist (hard to imagine I know), but I have mine mounted such that the back tire is a few feet off the floor when the bikes are hanging. My guess is that if you're trying to leave the back tire on the ground it simply will not work, unless you've accounted for the raising and lowering. There has to be some room for the bike's top tire to be raised when hooking it, then lowered "onto" the tray. Try doing like so:
https://youtu.be/hNvabZU7T_s
If that doesn't work...you may need the hammer or channel locks

Mumonkan

or just get the $1.87 hook i linked an call it a day.

or lean it up against the wall. that ****s free.

Scrodzilla

Deflate the tire. Done.

T13

Beakman is way cooler than Bill Nye.

Mumonkan

dude i met beekman, he was rad as ****.

T13

Yeah his show was great. It's funny that his "assistant" was "Naomi" in that movie Waiting....

prooftheory

Mr. Wizard was awesome.

SquidPuppet

$15.00................................ for a hook.

No.

Scrodzilla

Seriously. It doesn't even fixie.

Unkle Rico

You mean, Beaker? Cuz he was the ****

T13

No dude, BEAKMAN, like from Beakman's World!.... Beaker was cool too, though..