bike rack on ceiling?

[indyjps]

anyone made a lift or pulley system to get the bikes up and out of the way, ive got approx 10 foot ceilings in the garage. ive seen one @ sears that hooks onto the bike and uses a pulley to lift, just wondering if anyone has done themselves. thanks.

 

[zen garage]

They work fine. I have installed quite a few. If I recall target periodically runs sales on them for 15 bucks or so, which is cheaper than wholesale.

 

[BoostAddiction]

I don't want to make a big point about this -or maybe I do- but...my policy is:

Never hang anything on the walls or ceiling of a garage that you don't mind falling on the cars stored there.


Think about this for a while and I think you will see the reasoning here. It isn't just that the hangers are going to fail and allow whatever is being held up to fall down (though that can happen), it is much more likely that you will slip and the bike will crash down, that your kids will pull on the rope that runs the pulley system, or that someone will brush against the object, dislodging it, etc. The same thinking goes for the slotwall type of hanging apparati- I think they are mostly a pox and that people that actually want to protect their cars are doing themselves a disservice by hanging things so close to their cars. I know I'm going to get flamed about this, but I really believe that storing "stuff" and storing cars are activities that should occupy different spaces (assuming the cars are worth protecting- maybe that ol' Mazda MPV with the crazed paint really isn't worth caring about).

That's why I have a separate room where I hang stuff on the walls if I want to. But the garage itself, assuming cars are actually stored there, should never have things hanging on the walls.

The correct solution is almost always to create a separate space, as in a separate room. If you must store kids toys, bikes, etc in the garage, then divide it up with real separators (like movable walls) that make the distinction really clear as to what goes where.

That's my opinion, anyway!

-Will

 

[BowtieNut]

Yeah, I installed a few in my garage this past fall. Still got 1 more to go when the youngest one gets a bike. They seem to work pretty good. Most places I've seen them are usually $30-40. I just saw them on sale at Menards last week for $20. I've never seen them for $15, I'll have to check Target next time. I've even seen them at bike shops for $80, and I'm sure those are probably better quality, but these cheap ones I have seem to work fine for me.

They seem fairly safe too. You have to pull the rope to a certain angle, and let it out slowly, to let the bike down. If you let go of the rope, the bike will not fall. I'm sure accidents can still happen. I would never park an expensive car that I really care about under these, but for my daily drivers I think they're safe enough for me to risk it. Personally, I'm more worried about them falling on my kids, so if my '99 Tahoe is parked under the bikes, at least I know they aren't going to fall on someone.

 

[indyjps]

i completely agree that a seperate garage is needed for cars and stuff but its not in the works right now. i was going to hang them along the wall where some shelves are right now. moving the shelves to the basement to get the storage **** out of my garage, that way they are not over parking areas anyway. ill check out target or just make something. thanks.