I wrote this advice before I realized how freaking huge 18 feet is:

J-hooks on the ceiling and strong pegs on the walls are great for wheels, bare frames, and tires, but I strongly suggest never putting whole bikes above head-level.  We used to do this at the UBC Bike Co-op and it always felt really dodgy taking down whole bikes with the hook-stick.  I would even say to take tires and tubes off of wheels for overhead storage, a mountain bike rear wheel with cassette and a big tire is pretty heavy on the end of a stick.

With such a high ceiling you could probably also hang some threaded rod from whatever ceiling anchors you have.  Then you could put several rows of wood into which to put J-hooks to make a multi-level storage system all the way to the ceiling.  The lowermost level could be used for entire bikes which would hang barely touching the floor.

Upon realizing the 18 feet thing: 
Could you build a mezzanine?  E.g. like these but obviously smaller and DIY: https://www.kabtechusa.com/mezzanine-photo-gallery/ You might need some pro-bono engineering work to make it legal though.

Jean-François

On Feb 12, 2021, at 23:58, Alexander Lazar <alexandazar@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure exactly how tall our ceilings are at Bikerowave, but we use a long stick with a hook to hang bikes on the ceiling. Easier to manage than pulleys. 

We have two tiers of wheel/rim/tire storage on a wall. They hang perpendicular to the wall using. We have hooks that hang from a wooden rack - https://www.instagram.com/p/CIKI1s_F8ZU/ since the hooks can move side to side, we can always slide things to make full use of the space. Hook-stick helps reach the upper level of this. 

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 7:52 PM Mark Rehder <mark@re-cycles.ca> wrote:
Hi all,

We’ve just moved our shop, and the front part of the main room has an 18-foot ceiling! We are looking into an overhead grid system from which to hang the usual tires and wheels, but there’ll still be those tall walls…

So I’d love to find out what others may have done with a similar room. Hang stuff way up and lower it by pulley? Or just fill the upper half of the walls with art and cool old bikes?

Mark Rehder - Coordinator
re-Cycles Community Bike Shop
http://re-cycles.ca

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