Hanging up bikes.
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Hanging up bikes.
So I live in a fairly small dorm room and I was wondering what are some methods I could use to hang up my bike in my room. Preferably methods that are cheap.
I don't like leaving my bike outside here because drunk kids like to **** with them.
I don't like leaving my bike outside here because drunk kids like to **** with them.
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From: Ellensburg, WA
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I hang my business up on my roommates overbed cabinet thing

You probably cant bolt anything to your walls, but you might be able to bend some clothes hangers to make a front wheel hanger and fasten it somewhere in the room, curtain rod perhaps?
P.S. you know a girl named caitlin from washington state that goes to school with you?
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when i lived in the dorms i just always lofted my bed and put my bike and a couch under it.
we weren't allowed to bolt **** into our walls, though i'm sure i could have done it considering the other stuff we got away with in there.
we weren't allowed to bolt **** into our walls, though i'm sure i could have done it considering the other stuff we got away with in there.
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From: Toronto, On
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The bike swings and ends up in taking up more space. And if there on the wall they don't swing so much when bumped (in my house me, and my parents have like 3 bikes each and hanging, with most touching the wall seem to be the best way to keep them. Just so no one thinks I'm spoiled one of my bikes is a touring bike i bought, one was a free road bike/fixed gear now, and the third is a cross country bike that i just sold to buy my new frame)
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i got mine for 1 buck a pair in freidmeyer(is that how u spell it?)....
#12
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From: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Bikes: Douglas Touring Cross Wise, Urbanite Fixed Gear
Those double racks are nice. Currently I have a shed full of bikes and patio stuff, with the patio stuff in the front, so I can't get any of the bikes until spring (Jamis cheapy mountain bike, A cruiser my dad had as a kid, and a few cheap walmart bikes people left at my house), and in my basement, quite uncomfortably to the people that exorcise or use computers down there, there is my urbanite fixed, my douglas touring bike, my bianchi street wise, a broken super cycle road bike from like 1980, and when anyone else comes over, their bikes too. This is a huge problem because no one is happy. My brother, father and friend that live with me always work out and bump my bikes and they all fall down. They get pissed because they were interupted, and I get pissed because my bikes get ****ed with. Do the racks take up substantially less room then two bikes put beside eachother?
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From: Athens, Ohio
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Unfortunately, i am not allowed to screw things into my walls(even if I did want to, it's damn near impossible, these walls are incredibly hard, i've never seen anything like it). Looks like one of these or something similar looks like my best bet.
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From: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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Not to mention those racks can double as a something to work on your bike with, or at least clean the salt off and lube my chain on.
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Looks like one of these or something similar looks like my best bet.
#17
The bike swings and ends up in taking up more space. And if there on the wall they don't swing so much when bumped (in my house me, and my parents have like 3 bikes each and hanging, with most touching the wall seem to be the best way to keep them. Just so no one thinks I'm spoiled one of my bikes is a touring bike i bought, one was a free road bike/fixed gear now, and the third is a cross country bike that i just sold to buy my new frame)
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From: Wake Forest/Raleigh, NC
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i just ordered one of these for myself. i hope it's a good one.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846
Racor Gravity Freestanding Bike Stand PLB-2R
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846
Racor Gravity Freestanding Bike Stand PLB-2R
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I use this one by Delta. It's a lot like the Racor Gravity that jigga posted, but the silver color and skinnier tubing make it a lot less oppressive in the room (I've owned both). It fades into the background more, while the Racor is pretty beefy and industrial looking and dominates unless you have dark walls or a lot of space.
It looks a bit flimsy, but it's held up to my huge-ass bikes for over a year just fine. (That Ibis is ~27lbs.) It's a lot more stable than you'd think; I've walked into the top bike full-tilt and the thing didn't fall over. It leans up against the wall with round rubber pads, and leaves no marks on a white wall.
Only drawback: the bolts that come with it to hold on the adjustable arms strip easy, but $3 at Home Depot and you're set.
Last edited by schnee; 02-04-08 at 04:10 AM.





