Winter Storage for my bike....

[Sadie]

Do I store it in the garage, sitting on tires? Or do I hang it up off the ground? It's getting colder by the minute here in Utah, and I've finally realized I need to make a plan. Sorry if this has been discussed previously, but I'm new here also.

[ciao_bella]

I use a vertical bike wall "hook" to hang my bike in my garage. It looks like this and works very well, and was easy to install.

http://tinyurl.com/yh5n96f

I live in Michigan and my bike hangs all winter. This thingy does the trick!

Ciao

[GrassyRidge]

I learn the most amazing things here on TE. I love that vertical wall hook! I like hanging my bikes up and down because they take up less room, but I'm moving to a house made of concrete down in FL, and am having trouble hanging my traditional ceiling hooks, that one should work!

[owlice]

What, other people don't keep their bikes in their dining rooms??

That wall hook... is the bike actually off the floor entirely when using it? I couldn't tell from the pictures.

[ciao_bella]

owlice - Yes, my bike is completely off the garage floor. The front tire hooks onto the "hook" thingy, and if you put the "hook" thingy up high enough, the back tire is off the floor.

We first tried one of those ceiling hoist things, but the ceiling on our garage wasn't high enough to get the bike up over the top of the cars.

Ciao

[ny biker]

I use a vertical bike wall "hook" to hang my bike in my garage. It looks like this and works very well, and was easy to install.

http://tinyurl.com/yh5n96f

I live in Michigan and my bike hangs all winter. This thingy does the trick!

Ciao

I might wind up getting something like that for my living room or bedrom wall, to hold my road bike. Am I correct that you have to attach it to a stud, and not just anywhere on the wall?

[zoom-zoom]

What, other people don't keep their bikes in their dining rooms??

This Winter DH and I will likely have both of our bikes set up on trainers in a corner of our very small living room. But we never have company, so we don't care about appearances. When the weather is really bad (we're in MI, so this could be several solid months, unfortunately) we're planning on doing some "rides" in front of the TV together. Yeah, we're romantic that way.

[out_spokin']

Hanging is ideal...if only I had somewhere with the vertical space! But garage is OK, I'd just recommend checking on the tire pressure once or twice a winter so that your tires don't get flat and sit "deformed" for a long time.

[ciao_bella]

Here's another brand of Bike storage hook:
(Google BICYCLE STORAGE HOOK)

http://www.deltacycle.com/Leonardo-S...e-Storage-Hook

If you read the specs on this one it says to mount it into a wall stud.

Ciao

[nscrbug]

What, other people don't keep their bikes in their dining rooms??

(Raising hand up in the air)...We do, we do!!! His is propped up against our front door (which we don't use)...and mine is propped up against a sofa table. Yeah, we rarely have "guests" over...and even if we did, we wouldn't care what they thought about us parking our bikes in the dining room.

[Atlas]

We hang our bikes from vertical hooks on the wall of our garage. There are five or six hooks out there for all our bikes, plus a few sit in the basement or on the floor of the garage, mostly the ones we ride the most.