Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
R.
We use old Home Depot racks. Found them at the metal scrap yard. They work pretty well if you space them correctly.
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
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R.
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Hello, Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shop inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!
P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
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We currently have double rows, but they don't work great.
Most shops that do double rows (including Corvallis) store the bikes horizontally (meaning both tires horizontal, in other words the bike is oriented the way it would be when riding) and that takes up a huge amount of space coming out from the wall.
In contrast, we store nearly all our bikes vertically, wheelie-style, with a single hook set about eye-level on the wall. This makes the bike take up less floor and walkway space. At floor level, it works amazingly well in terms of both ease of use and space conservation.
At the ceiling, it also works great - until you need to put up a bike or get it down. At that point ladders or strong people using a pole with a strong hook at the end are needed, and both these things are awkward. The ladder can be outright dangerous.
Currently we're designing a hoist system inspired by the racks used at some Target stores, but development is slow because we don't have the time right now for it.
Attached is a zip file with a limited selection of pictures I've collected regarding various kinds of storage (including complete bike storage), and including a pdf and other images with schematics of the somewhat complex gas shock equipped racks Target uses.
Re: Target racks, according to my research, the patent expired on the design awhile ago and has not been renewed.
Anyway I'm pretty sure there is no illegality whatsoever in duplicating even an up-to-date patented design for personal, i.e. non-resale, non-commercial use.
cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-09-12 05:52, Whitman Spitzer wrote:
Hello, Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shop inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!
P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
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And here's a zipped archive of my compilation of toolboard images from that toolboard thread that Josh Bisker spawned awhile ago in case this is also helpful.
cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-09-13 21:11, Cyclista Nicholas wrote:
We currently have double rows, but they don't work great.
Most shops that do double rows (including Corvallis) store the bikes horizontally (meaning both tires horizontal, in other words the bike is oriented the way it would be when riding) and that takes up a huge amount of space coming out from the wall.
In contrast, we store nearly all our bikes vertically, wheelie-style, with a single hook set about eye-level on the wall. This makes the bike take up less floor and walkway space. At floor level, it works amazingly well in terms of both ease of use and space conservation.
At the ceiling, it also works great - until you need to put up a bike or get it down. At that point ladders or strong people using a pole with a strong hook at the end are needed, and both these things are awkward. The ladder can be outright dangerous.
Currently we're designing a hoist system inspired by the racks used at some Target stores, but development is slow because we don't have the time right now for it.
Attached is a zip file with a limited selection of pictures I've collected regarding various kinds of storage (including complete bike storage), and including a pdf and other images with schematics of the somewhat complex gas shock equipped racks Target uses.
Re: Target racks, according to my research, the patent expired on the design awhile ago and has not been renewed.
Anyway I'm pretty sure there is no illegality whatsoever in duplicating even an up-to-date patented design for personal, i.e. non-resale, non-commercial use.
cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-09-12 05:52, Whitman Spitzer wrote:
Hello, Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shop inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!
P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
R. ____________________________________
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One of our Positive Spin's volunteers, Scott Soderholm, inquired about the Corvallis 12 Bike Display Rack Building Instructions, and he built his own prototype (photo attached). Below is the link to the Corvallis instructions:
Thanks to Austin for your generosity in sharing your 2-level bike display design. I've built a version for my own garage to get a feel for it and to store our 15 bikes. (Hey, that's _only_ 3/person for our family...)
Next, we'll use this design to organize Positive Spin's new garage space in Morgantown, WV!
One note on my own build: Not having a compound miter saw, I built the "floor" sections flat instead of angling down at 10 degrees, and decreased the slope from a rise of ~12" at the back to only ~5". There's a somewhat unsightly gap at the back where it angles, but it seems plenty strong (I was standing on it for a while to add a bonus tandem hook to the left side.) Austin's instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xZWsy_zNyFqeDMzePZxFYoHPiYmO-3ztAqM5wSJm... [1]
-Scott
Thanks to Whitman for bringing this design to our attention on The Think Tank!
-Jonathan
On 2018-09-12 01:52, Whitman Spitzer wrote:
Hello,
Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shopcovallis inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
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Links:
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xZWsy_zNyFqeDMzePZxFYoHPiYmO-3ztAqM5wSJm...
Huge kudos to the fine folks at the Corvallis Bicycle Collective for putting together such excellent documentation and continued revisions. One element I have thought may be useful is to make the bottom level of bikes slide out, like a giant IKEA kitchen drawer. Not sure if that is asking for a need that isn't there or helping spark ideas on how it could be done (because I'm not sure where you obtain sliders of that magnitude).
Josh Capps Corvallis, Oregon
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:25 AM Jonathan Rosenbaum gnuser@gmail.com wrote:
One of our Positive Spin's volunteers, Scott Soderholm, inquired about the Corvallis 12 Bike Display Rack Building Instructions, and he built his own prototype (photo attached). Below is the link to the Corvallis instructions:
Thanks to Austin for your generosity in sharing your 2-level bike display design. I've built a version for my own garage to get a feel for it and to store our 15 bikes. (Hey, that's _only_ 3/person for our family...)
Next, we'll use this design to organize Positive Spin's new garage space in Morgantown, WV!
One note on my own build: Not having a compound miter saw, I built the "floor" sections flat instead of angling down at 10 degrees, and decreased the slope from a rise of ~12" at the back to only ~5". There's a somewhat unsightly gap at the back where it angles, but it seems plenty strong (I was standing on it for a while to add a bonus tandem hook to the left side.) Austin's instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/ 1xZWsy_zNyFqeDMzePZxFYoHPiYmO-3ztAqM5wSJmiv4/edit?usp=sharing
-Scott
Thanks to Whitman for bringing this design to our attention on The Think Tank!
-Jonathan
On 2018-09-12 01:52, Whitman Spitzer wrote:
Hello, Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shopcovallis inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!
P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
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Instead of drawer slides, how about wheels underneath? A la skateboard trucks or shopping cart casters?
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 11:33 AM Josh Capps < thegoodtimesarekillingme@gmail.com> wrote:
Huge kudos to the fine folks at the Corvallis Bicycle Collective for putting together such excellent documentation and continued revisions. One element I have thought may be useful is to make the bottom level of bikes slide out, like a giant IKEA kitchen drawer. Not sure if that is asking for a need that isn't there or helping spark ideas on how it could be done (because I'm not sure where you obtain sliders of that magnitude).
Josh Capps Corvallis, Oregon
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:25 AM Jonathan Rosenbaum gnuser@gmail.com wrote:
One of our Positive Spin's volunteers, Scott Soderholm, inquired about the Corvallis 12 Bike Display Rack Building Instructions, and he built his own prototype (photo attached). Below is the link to the Corvallis instructions:
Thanks to Austin for your generosity in sharing your 2-level bike display design. I've built a version for my own garage to get a feel for it and to store our 15 bikes. (Hey, that's _only_ 3/person for our family...)
Next, we'll use this design to organize Positive Spin's new garage space in Morgantown, WV!
One note on my own build: Not having a compound miter saw, I built the "floor" sections flat instead of angling down at 10 degrees, and decreased the slope from a rise of ~12" at the back to only ~5". There's a somewhat unsightly gap at the back where it angles, but it seems plenty strong (I was standing on it for a while to add a bonus tandem hook to the left side.) Austin's instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/ 1xZWsy_zNyFqeDMzePZxFYoHPiYmO-3ztAqM5wSJmiv4/edit?usp=sharing
-Scott
Thanks to Whitman for bringing this design to our attention on The Think Tank!
-Jonathan
On 2018-09-12 01:52, Whitman Spitzer wrote:
Hello, Are you talking about a rack to store two rows of bikes, one on top of the other? This is our primary form of bike storage for our shopcovallis inventory, we built the racks ourselves. I would be happy to supply pics, details, measurements etc. as I was not personally the one responsible for constructing them. I'm actually not sure if it was someone from the shop or someone from the local university (like an architecture student) looking to help us out. I might even be able to find plans for them. They are constructed pretty simply, with one beam with with a section of halved, large diameter ABS pipe for the wheels to rest in and a hook at the back to hold the rear wheel. Actually, (and I'm sorry if this breaches etiquette for this listserve thingy) check out our instagram @corvallisbikes for some pics of the rack setup. It works really well!
P.S. Apologies for the terrible style of this email. It's late and I don't want to go through and edit. Have a wonderful evening whoever reads this!
-Whit (volunteer loudmouth with the corvallis bicycle collective)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tigre Bici bici.uanl@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone We are thinking on buying/making a 2 floor bike rack to save some space and have more bikes in a small space. Do anyone have experience on them? Any insights on we shall make it or buy it?
Thanks
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