I saw some of those Gravity bike racks at Sam's Club for about half what they were online.
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05-23-2006, 06:27 PM #1
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05-24-2006, 09:27 AM #2
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We have one of those gravity racks that holds two bikes. It fits inside a really large closet we have in our apartment.
DH was concerned after it scratched my bike, so we lined the hooks with microfiber cloths. It works really well and was the only solution for two road bikes and one mountain bike in a 800 square foot apartment.
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05-24-2006, 06:26 PM #3
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FWIW, we have a system here at TE just like Cali's. Our bikes hang in a row on one wall of the warehouse. Works great and takes up very little floor space.
We bought ours from an outfit called Bike Up. Here's a link to the site: http://bikeup.com/vertical/bike-Up.cfm
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05-25-2006, 12:34 PM #4
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We have very tight garage space, as well, with 2 cars and a boat to store in our 3 car garage. We hung our road bikes upside down from the ceiling with big yellow hooks from Home Depot, right between the boat and the truck, toward the front. They are easy to get down from there. For the MTB we bought a special hook and rope pulley system from Costco that leaves it upright so the shocks are not affected. Both are very inexpensive options and keep the bikes out of the reach of the kids, who of course, tend to knock them over.
Good luck! It seems no matter what you do, there's never enough room in the garage!
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05-25-2006, 12:35 PM #5
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Ditto to "That's a garage?"
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05-25-2006, 02:16 PM #6
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Cali... I love it that all the bikes have their own full length mirrors
(at least it looks that way in the pic)
That's a woman who REALY wants her bikes to have a great "shelf-image"
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05-26-2006, 06:46 AM #7
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yes.... each bike likes to admire himself/herself! lol! (actually... they are more functional than that... i use the garage for working out, too... and they are there to check form... granted we coulda stopped at probably 3... the three closest to the workout end.... but we had to make it all nice and even... purdy! lol!
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05-26-2006, 12:01 PM #8
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Delta Cezanne
I just ordered the Cezanne storage system, which is by Delta - the same maker as the Leonardo hooks- it's two uprights with shelves and a cross-bar in between - room to hang four bikes on the uprights (two per side) and clothing from the corss bar - all the other gear on the shelves - got it cheap from amazon.com after finding numerous reccos to it (including write-up in the NYTimes) - we'll see how it works . . . .
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