Cannot "anchor" bike rack in apartment
 

Moving to a new apartment. During visit of the unit, the landlord agreed to allow storage in it. Initially he wanted me to lock them to a rack in the underground garage. Told him that was a deal breaker. He relented and I told him there were drill free options, citing ceiling to floor tension rack as an example.

The lease states storage must not anchor to walls, floors and ceilings. And then he sent me photos of bike repair stands. I haven't responded. Bike repair stands are not ideal for bike storage for 2 bikesnor are they particularly space efficient.

I'm going to interpret "not anchored" as in not drilling in screws. What are good options for 2 bikes that will keep the apartment in good condition? I have 2 elderly cats, they are pretty much sedentary at this stąge but want to keep them in mind. Need rack that will stand up to cats possibly bumping into it.

Will tension racks and gravity racks hold up wuth light accidental touches? Are the contact points padded to avoid scuffing of the surface? I'm also considering velosocks too.

The guy seems to be a little anal retentive about this so I'm trying to cover the bases.

I know I did not answer your question, but don't forget about those days it rained on your way home.
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I used to store two bikes in my front entry way on the floor, but I have not seen the stand that I used available for sale for years, have no idea if it is still sold. The front wheel of each bike went into it.

But from your question, it sounds like you want to keep the bikes one above the other up off of the floor, so the stand I used might not meet your criteria.

IMHO a gravity rack will do just fine especially if one bike is always there putting weight on it.

One thing to try is a cement block sitting behine the stand with a strap to the top- basically and anchor.
For static racks, this may be enough to counter balance the weight of same bicycles.
You could also use 2(3) blocks to counterbalance heavier bicycles.
rusty

why can't you just lean the bike against a wall and call it a day?
seems like a tempest in a teapot to me...

Just assume you won't get your deposit back when you leave.

Ta-Da!

Delta Design Upright Freestanding 2-Bike Storage Rack | Perigold

That's what I do currently because my landlord allows me to store my bikes in the tiny secure lobby. I'm moving to big apartment building and I can't leave my bikes outside my unit.

Parking 2 bikes against the wall in the new modestly sized apartment would take up a lot of usable space.

Edit: I'm considering the gravity rack from delta.

Thanks for the alt anchoring suggestion. I'm also considering zip ties to a couple of nonsticky 3m hooks which won't damage the wall. Good enough to hold up against accidental nudges.

If this were in the over-50 forum, I might ask what this has to do with electronics? Are you looking for a mag-lev solution?

If you're willing to spend $180 for a freestanding rack, I might use the same money to fix the wall (from the anchor) after using a cheap wall mount option? I respect the landlords concern, I would just fix it right before I moved out?

Oops, I missed the sub forum for non electronic items. Can a mod move the thread to the appropriate sub forum? I'll look into it once I'm on my laptop.

Yes, this the one I'm considering. Not sure why it's twice as expensive at rei than at Amazon.

Because REI treats it's employees in a fair & ethical manner & sustains reasonably high ethical values as a matter of business model. It also has amazing customer service & a more than generous return policy.

If you are a questionably honest person, you have the possible option return it when your lease is up making it essentially free to you. Try that with Amazon in 6 or 9 months or whatever.

Amazon has used ones for $30. Definitely worth the cost of admission, IMO.

I'm a rei member and am aware of the reasons behind their pricing. And I have supported them even when I could have bought a lower price. I have just never seen the difference at over double the price. And the Amazon listing is by delta and not a knockoff.

Oh, yeah. No worries. I'm a member too. Voting with my wallet, so to speak.

Only double where you are at? Showing $156 here. Thats TRIPLE! Time to break out that VPN connection ;)

I'd still get the $30 Amazon used one & throw it away or leave it at the apartment if ever it was no longer needed. The difference is just too egregious for the likes of me. :thumb:

I was rounding up as over double. Just checked, showing as 154 for me. You're right, nearly 3x.

Carbon bikes are pretty light. Maybe they can hang from a light bulb socket?

is it against the rules to just lean the bike up in the corner? or use this https://www.competitivecyclist.com/f...display-system I have two

20+ years ago, I used a rack like this made out of wood (still have it somewhere) in my small apartment. I had 4 bikes on it. It worked great!

Feedback Sports have some really nice storage solutions.
I have a few of the wall mounted racks and they have been great. As a previous poster stated. You can always repair the holes before you move out.

If you'd rather not deal with spackle and paint, They also make a pretty trick freestanding option

That floor to ceiling rack looks great. Just a bit too expensive but it's pretty. This move is denting the checking account for sure.

The landlord made an exception to allow the bikes in the apartment. I told him I wouldn't drill in a rack. We came to an agreement. I don't want to go back on it.

I've used the Delta leaning-style rack linked above (used to be called Michelangelo). My only concern would be the tendency of the arms to want to swing around and slip a bit. If I set it back up where I live now, I'll use some hose clamps to keep everything tight. I lived in the 19th floor of an old skyscraper that is mostly empty in the bottom half, and on a windy day I could hear the interior walls creaking and see the water in the toilet bowl move as the building swayed. I still never had anything catastrophic happen.

Landlord gave me back the full deposit, and even gave me back prorated rent for the month that I left. The next tenant paid $250 more than I did...

A note about the purchase from Amazon: The building had electronic lockers for deliveries. Each time it was listed as "delivered to locker," and nowhere to be found with no notification from the locker system. Building management wouldn't even try to look and locker company wasn't local. After three tries, I just asked for a refund. I re-ordered site-to-store through Home Depot, and that worked great and was even cheaper. Fast forward a year, and the security guard stopped me going out one night about three packages the building manager had found jammed up in the lockers... The look on my face when she wheeled them out must've been priceless. They must've put all the labels on a side that couldn't possibly face the camera that looks for residents' names and addresses. This all took place before Amazon started attaching pictures of the delivered item to delivery notification e-mails. I also had issues with small packages where the driver would put a small label over my name before putting packages in the lockers, but the new manager was good about giving me the keys to unlock the whole damn locker system to search for them.