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Hello Folks,
Asking for some advice.
Wanting to secure bikes (ideally vertically / by the front wheel) to the breeze block wall in my garage.
There will be a variety (depending on the season!) of skinny road tyres, through to 2.8 MTB tyres that'll need to hang.
Is there a one device that suits all?
And what is best to secure? Bolts in floor beneath or into wall (mid bike?), then chain?
Thanks in advance.
The default answer is the black plate hangers, look on ebay, you'll get four for about 20ish quid. I've found that the 2.6 Mary on the front of my Bronson is a struggle with them though, so am just gonna pop a big plastic coated single hook up for that tbh.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/600592590?iid=192155010623
The wheel hook things
have worked ok for my (but the non folding one). Got five for a tenner a little while ago. I would be inclined to bolt a board to the wall and screw them into that as i have found that the first way of hanging the bikes isnt the one i have eneded up with, so rescrewing into board better than the wall.
As for securing, use lots of things. Noisy stuff, ground anchors, chains, lawn mowers, make it difficult and noisy to get at them, then do'nt post on the internet what you have and where you are.
ive got those plate ones as well, got a few spare as well. AS has been said, much over a 2.3 and you struggle to get the wheel to sit in the guides. I mounted mine to a bit of 4x2 first to aid getting the wheel in and out as i found the hook too close to the wall.
there are some silly expensive folding ones (i did play around mounting some hinges to the plates), but they didn't really achieve much in the way of space saving. I think they are great for road bikes, not so much for MTB's..
I screwed a large wooden batten across the wall, then cheap, plastic-coated hooks screwed in to that, angled down about 45 degrees. Fine for tyres up to 2.4" or so (possibly larger but certainly not 2.8")
Black plate hangers are good.
I have a row of 4, the 2.4 tyre struggles, but it will go.
I have a couple of wall anchors behind. Depending on how long it's being left for it either has a chunky chain going through all the bikes (each with their own D Lock) or a stranded cable through the D locks if I'm using different bikes each day and don't want to be clunking the chain.
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I screwed a large wooden batten across the wall, then cheap, plastic-coated hooks screwed in to that, angled down about 45 degrees. Fine for tyres up to 2.4″ or so (possibly larger but certainly not 2.8″)
I did that too, and 2.8s work fine. Mine aren't angled down at 45 degrees.
I took a slightly different approach. Sturdiest wardrobe rail and brackets I could find, and hung from the joists near the wall. Big s-hooks over the rail, and inch-wide velcro straps to form a loop through the tyre and on to the s-hook.
Lets you fold them off to the side if you need the space (although big wide MTB bars don't help with that - I turn them in line with the bike if I won't use it for a while). Works for everything from kids balance bikes to fatbikes, and you can hang all sorts of other stuff off it too.
Like this - although it was a bit too far from the wall, needs to be closer than this pic:
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Ours have been hung that way for years on the back wall of the garage they will take big tyres with deep rims and are secure enough to hold ebikes
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Any issues with suspension, dropper posts being stored that way?
Nope. Nor brakes.
Not in the 12 years we have been hanging them that way, we always store and transport the bikes with the seat posts down
I use a CLUG
well I say use, it won't fit my 2.35" Maxxis Forekasters even
Brilliant piece of kit though false promises of fitting mtb tyres upto 2.5"
Thought I'd support local business but yh bit if a let down
Need a much bigger one
I have just done this very thing on breeze block walls. I used an individual plank of wood for each of the 5 x front wheel hangars. Each plank was 22mm thick x 92mm wide, cut to about 60cm in length. I used 4 x 8mm fischer breeze block rawl plugs to attach each piece of wood to the breeze blocks. I then attached the wheel hanger to the breeze blocks (4 drill more holes) and this added a further 4 screws through the wall hanger, through the wood and into the wall. Each hangar has 8 screws holding it in place.
This approach meant that I was able to vary the height of the wheel hangars and make best use of space with 2 x road bikes sandwiched in between 3 x wide handlebar mountain bikes. So far so good (but they have only been up for 2 months).
I managed to get the 5 wall hangers from Planet X for £15 in total. The wood was a similar price from B&Q and the rawl plugs/screws were about £8. It took an awful lot of drilling but I wish I had done it ages ago as it makes much better use of the space in my garage and each bike is less likely to be scratched.
I've got 6 in my garage (same as P-X ones). As above, I've moved them a few times over the years to optimise the position. Mine are staggered low high low which helps getting bikes in/out.
I had to bend the 'hook' to accommodate my MTB's 2.3" tyres. Having done this, I'd guess it'd be fine for tyres up to 3" ish. Any bigger and you'd probably need a different style rack.
Very happy with the setup. It would definitely be better if the racks could a) swing side-to-side and b) concertina up towards each other to maximise space / ease of storage but that would be a massive undertaking.
No problems after 6 years with brakes / seat posts / suspension. If anything, hanging them like this keeps the seals saturated with fork oil and potentially stops them from drying out.
The Decathlon hooks mentioned above are cheap and handle all tyre sizes. I would fit a thick wooden plank horizontally and put the hooks into that, to make it easier to adjust the positioning in the future. You can also fit a plank across the roof joists, if these are exposed, and mount the hooks pointing downwards, instead of screwing them into the wall.
Thanks for all the ideas folks. I'm heading to the garage for a proper measure up and a ponder over all of these options. Thanks a lot!
Picked up some of the Planet X hooks a while back but never got round to using them. Quite liking the idea of a plank across the ceiling joists instead though, that may work better
tdog
I use a CLUG
well I say use, it won’t fit my 2.35″ Maxxis Forekasters even
Brilliant piece of kit though false promises of fitting mtb tyres upto 2.5″
They seem to have admitted that, there's four size options now
The angled bars in Tracey's picture will make a huge difference, I don't think that's doable with the wall plate type hangers though.
I have a couple of Steady Racks for the plus tyre bikes too.
https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Steadyrack-Fat-Bike-Rack_215582.htm
Black plate hangers same as px ones.
One of mines has a bike with a 3.8 Nate hanging off it no bother.
Brown Rawl plugs and a good extension for your driver as it's hard to get the screws in due to design.
Throw away hardware it comes with waste of time
The best ones I have used are the Feedback Velo Hinge. Especially with a mix of MTB & road bikes. Having them at right angles to the wall takes up loads of space, so being able to hinge them and take out the one you want is great. We have some classic hook style which you can do 'sort' of the same with but they are a pain in comparison.
That said, the classic hook at a couple of quid each, Vs the £30 the Feedback ones are, with a lot of bikes, i'm inclined to say i'd put up with it.