Originally Posted by
Chombi
I've been using a ceiling mounted hoist to store my bikes out of the way for about two years now, but I just noticed something with the cord when I pull the bikes up. The synthetic woven black cord that came with the hoist is abrading slowly and is getting fuzzy looking and possibly weaker now that it was originally. I actually see black lint coming off the cord at the "ratcheting" pulley it goes in. I'm thinking of renewing the cord soon to keep it safe, but I'm also wondering if I'm the only one noticing this with the hoist as a possible problem, or could my bike host pulley be defective thus causing damage to the cord.....
Chombi
Chombi, I've got a dozen of those hoists on the ceiling of my studio. After a couple of years raising and lowering bikes, three of the cords started to fray. Not sure why they would do so and the others remain (apparently) perfect, but my sense has always been that those three cords always "felt" a little different. I wonder if there was an early batch of poor quality cords or something. Anyway, I replaced the cord with cheap clothes line and that has worked very well. There are a couple of options - a stiffer, thinner gauge version and the thicker, softer-to-the-touch stuff that I wound up using. It doesn't match the black cord on the other hangers, but even I'm not
that anal retentive. (No.
Really, I'm not.)