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Thanks, I may give it a go.
How stable do you think they are in terms of side to side knocks? At the moment, the door into our garage is in a very similar position to the open cupboard in your pic. The door will eventually be moved, but for at least the next couple of months there will be a (small) risk of people/dogs bumping them as they rush through.
Also, is it easy enough to get the bikes into and out of the hooks? I mean my GF struggles a bit when trying to lift her heavier town bike onto the car rack... I guess if the rear wheel is on the ground then you just stand it on end and wheel it into place with no lifting required.
ewanmac
Yep, ladder hooks, wrapped in inner tubes/ cloth tape.
Otherwise its a piece of softwood carcassing, attached into the shitty old bricks with masonry screws and plugs (to spread the load), and then just the ladder hooks into that.
Get your ladder hooks, make sure the carcassing is longer than them, and make sure your masonry screw are at least 2x the width of the carcassing.
The wheels are on the ground, but one of my bikes has the shortest wheelbase- by a long way too- compared to my gfs two- so you may be surprised.
In theory, it shouldn't matter if they're hanging as the system puts the weight down through the carcassing, rather than away from the wall- and to make sure you can add a few bracket sections.