Originally Posted by
wobblyoldgeezer
We have a covered space like a 'car port', covered but open 360 degrees around. I don't want to leave the bikes there because of the windy salty circumstances.
At the back of the car port, there's an enclosed and lockable space about 8 feet tall, 3 feet deep, 6 feet wide. It'd take all the bikes (3 singles, 1 tandem) vertically but not horizontally.
So far, I'm encouraged to hang some butchers hooks to get the bikes out of the house. Mrs Beloved earns more than I do by running painting courses in the house, and the space currently bike occupied would give space to about 5 other paying art students!!!
I think that your space is going to be a little too small.
8' tall is fine for single bikes but I suspect it'll be too low for a tandem because you need to allow room for the hook the front wheel hangs from.
3' deep is also probably not going to be enough. My bikes take about 43" from the wall to the top of the saddle.
I don't think that my friend, stapfam, has thought that wheel ovalizing thing through. A wheel that isn't stout enough to support a 60 pound mountain bike tandem hanging from a hook won't be adequate to support two adult riders bounding down a singletrack trail either.