fixed gear apartment storage
 

what do you guys use? i was looking at the nashbar steel bike rack, because i like the way it looks and i have two bikes. also i have had bad luck trying to mount anything to my walls the past few years. i've got a lot of spackling to do when i leave this place.


http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?c...eid=&pagename=

i just bought that. works fine. not too ugly. sturdy. cheap.

There are several bike storage racks that either mount between the floor and ceiling or just lean against the wall and rest on the floor. I believe Delta makes one.

i used $1 rubberized hooks to mount 2 of my bikes upside down from the ceiling. I also used a stud finder to find the stud in the wall and used a single "L" shaped bracket which holds the bike nicely on the wall.

Indeed the hook in the ceiling works well and is really cheap.

there are some good inexpensive folding hooks I've seen for $5 at Home Despot. I would find a stud and use those in my apartment, but if I did that it would limit my ability to re-arange the furniture. So I bought one of the Delta racks that leans against the wall. I haven't gotten it yet, but it looks nice, and holds 2 bikes, so it should be good

I have a huge walk in closet and not a lot of clothes... so I put my clothes in my dresser and my bikes and parts in the closet. I've had three or four bikes in there at a time and all the parts go in the other half behind the door. Works well for me, and it was free.

My dining room now looks more like a shop than a dining room. I use one of the delta racks that leans against the wall and it works fine and I don't have to use toothpaste after to clean up any holes.

http://www.instructables.com/id/ELSDOGRZYTEPD7QT0I/

There's a couple others up as well

ikea! the other one leans on the wall below it.

http://static.flickr.com/63/194733373_678a671b80.jpg

so, do you always take off the chain/handlebars/front tire when hanging up your bike? Looks like a nice system... very low profile, but not quite so with handlebars?

haha. that picture was from when the bike was up there while i was still building it back up. those arms jut out about a foot. the 3rensho is up there now.

I just stick it upright proped between my toilet and my shower. NY apartments are way to small for all that Ikea home decorating b ulls hit. lol. I'm lucky I can actually fit my damn bike in my apt!

If you have the floorspace: http://chifg.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=116

i live in a teeny tiny shoebox of a room and i share it with another dude, so there's not a whole lot of bicycle storage room in here. i have my bed up on a loft though, so my geared fuji rests under there, and my fixed fuji leans on the wall next to my bed. the next bike i buy will definitly have to reside in the trunk / backseat of my parked car, which is my new favorite form of long term storage.

onetwentyeight, do you know what IKEA calls that rack? Looks like the perfect thing for my place, but I couldn't find it on their site.

something in sweedish, heh. i saw it at sherbert tights and wanted one. i spent hours on the site and never found it, but it was at the store when I went.

Damn! Oh well, thanks. I guess I need to make a trip there anyways...

i have one of those l-shaped shelf bracket hosepipe clamped about 6 ft up a hot water pipe that runs vertically up the apt. i bent the tip of the horizontal part of the bracket vertical, and the rear of the heaset sits right there, so the bike's hanging from that, sort of flat against the wall. it's about the only way to hang a bike in this place.

ellen's stingray stands on its wheels in the bedroom

I might get another bike and the old lady said they ain't no more room for bikes in our place (total of 2) :(

The leaning rack might do the trick.

I'm going to have to employ one of these stunts soon... moving to a smaller apartment this week. Glad this topic came up!

We have 10ft ceilings, so we've had great success with those bike hoists from Pricepoint. Replace the rope, though, it's ****ty and frays quickly. Go with some 5mm climbing cord from EMS or REI or whatever, you'll need about 50ft.

I have the Nashbar setup; no complaints. At most I've had four bikes and two frames stacked on that sucker, with no problems. Here it is with three bikes and two frames:

http://pictures.sultanik.com/albums/...1629.sized.jpg

that ikea shiz looks like the solution i need. between me and the lady we have five bikes and we're running out of space. i was thinking about the rubber hook in the ceiling but i like that better. is that a shelving thing? it kinda looks like a track lighting track.

chucksbikes.com has a rack for 2 bikes, only $40.