Minoura Bike Tower experiences
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Minoura Bike Tower experiences
Not sure if this is the right place to post, I'm considering said tower as I've accumulated too many bikes recently. There's a second hand one with provision for four bikes for sale here. The bikes are old school racers so quite heavy. Any pitfalls, experiences, etc before I commit? Cheers
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I've not used the Minoura version but have used others with same designs.
A few comments- The expanding against the ceiling wasn't as tight a fit as I had hoped for. The ceiling was flexible enough to not get enough compression and the tower would fall over if not real careful in bike placements. As I was in an apartment I wasn't going to run some screws into the floor and ceiling, which would have solved this issue.
- Getting at both sides of the tower with bikes hanging takes a bunch of space. the tower needed to be placed pretty much in the middle of the room. If I was allowed to screw into the walls or ceiling I'd just use wheel hanging hooks. Which is what I do now. Far cheaper and takes far less space with far better access.
- I don't like hanging my bikes from their frames anyway. Too easy to scratch or compress/bend a cable. I see car carrier paint and cable issues all the time at work. I paid far too much for my bikes' paint jobs to risk them. Andy.
A few comments- The expanding against the ceiling wasn't as tight a fit as I had hoped for. The ceiling was flexible enough to not get enough compression and the tower would fall over if not real careful in bike placements. As I was in an apartment I wasn't going to run some screws into the floor and ceiling, which would have solved this issue.
- Getting at both sides of the tower with bikes hanging takes a bunch of space. the tower needed to be placed pretty much in the middle of the room. If I was allowed to screw into the walls or ceiling I'd just use wheel hanging hooks. Which is what I do now. Far cheaper and takes far less space with far better access.
- I don't like hanging my bikes from their frames anyway. Too easy to scratch or compress/bend a cable. I see car carrier paint and cable issues all the time at work. I paid far too much for my bikes' paint jobs to risk them. Andy.
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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart
I've not used the Minoura version but have used others with same designs.
A few comments- The expanding against the ceiling wasn't as tight a fit as I had hoped for. The ceiling was flexible enough to not get enough compression and the tower would fall over if not real careful in bike placements. As I was in an apartment I wasn't going to run some screws into the floor and ceiling, which would have solved this issue.
- Getting at both sides of the tower with bikes hanging takes a bunch of space. the tower needed to be placed pretty much in the middle of the room. If I was allowed to screw into the walls or ceiling I'd just use wheel hanging hooks. Which is what I do now. Far cheaper and takes far less space with far better access.
- I don't like hanging my bikes from their frames anyway. Too easy to scratch or compress/bend a cable. I see car carrier paint and cable issues all the time at work. I paid far too much for my bikes' paint jobs to risk them. Andy.
A few comments- The expanding against the ceiling wasn't as tight a fit as I had hoped for. The ceiling was flexible enough to not get enough compression and the tower would fall over if not real careful in bike placements. As I was in an apartment I wasn't going to run some screws into the floor and ceiling, which would have solved this issue.
- Getting at both sides of the tower with bikes hanging takes a bunch of space. the tower needed to be placed pretty much in the middle of the room. If I was allowed to screw into the walls or ceiling I'd just use wheel hanging hooks. Which is what I do now. Far cheaper and takes far less space with far better access.
- I don't like hanging my bikes from their frames anyway. Too easy to scratch or compress/bend a cable. I see car carrier paint and cable issues all the time at work. I paid far too much for my bikes' paint jobs to risk them. Andy.
The other place had a high pitched ceiling and was going to have to fashion a wedge to level it off.
Will look at some other options for my storage solution. Cheers, Matthew
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