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Storage tips?
Postby Crowz » Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:54 pm
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Re: Storage tips?
Postby Byke » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:52 am
Crowz wrote:Moving from a house to an apartment and I'm looking for some awesome contraption that will help me store my bike in very little space...
By store do you mean 'pack away into the smallest space possible until I need it after my broken leg heals' or 'stop me tripping over it, but so I can still use it on a daily basis"?
If it's the latter then you're not really going to want to make your bike any smaller (by removing wheels, etc). But you might be able to put it somewhere that is less obtrusive. Perhaps a ceiling-mounted hoist. Or a simple storage hook or wall mount .
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Re: Storage tips?
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Re: Storage tips?
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Re: Storage tips?
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Re: Storage tips?
Postby greyhoundtom » Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:45 pm
Well actually the hooks are fixed to a timber board that is screwed to the ceiling as the ceiling batons did not line up exactly with the wheels to get the hooks into the right spot.
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Re: Storage tips?
Postby Crowz » Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:06 pm
greyhoundtom wrote:My bike currently hangs upside down by the wheels from a couple of large plastic covered hooks fixed into the ceiling.
Well actually the hooks are fixed to a timber board that is screwed to the ceiling as the ceiling batons did not line up exactly with the wheels to get the hooks into the right spot.
How high are your ceilings? Not sure I would be able to fit that. In any case, can you post a picture of a bike hanging from it?

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Re: Storage tips?
Postby greyhoundtom » Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:36 pm
The hooks are covered with a couple of bits of inner tube to minimise any damage to the wheels, and were purchased at Bunnings.

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Re: Storage tips?
Postby lump_a_charcoal » Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:53 pm

Edit - replaced bloody huge pic with a smaller one.
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Re: Storage tips?
Postby lump_a_charcoal » Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:17 pm
greyhoundtom wrote:Damn that's a huge photo
Oops!

Fikst it.
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