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I've been tasked with suggesting some new bike storage for our underground bike parking area and I would like some ideas, if anyone knows of anything good.
Currently we have the sort of stand where your front wheel sits in a kind of squashed hoop of metal that is approx 4ft off the floor and your back wheel is held in a kind metal gulley. The result is that your bike is held at a 45 degree angle, saving space etc. The only problem with this is that the hoops have clearly not been made with 700c wheels in mind. Because they don't sit in the hoop as deeply as a smaller wheel does, they are balanced so delicately that the slightest knock has the bike falling backwards and on to the floor. This usually results in at least one or two other bikes being taken with the first and on to the floor. I don't use them any more because of the risk of my bike ending up at the bottom of a pile of bikes and the same is true of a number of people that use the racks now. I want to get these changed to something more sturdy, easier to use and less likely to smash my bike up.
There are restrictions to the space we have available. We're using a car park and space is at a premium. We've been offered another standard size space to convert to bike storage so I need to find something that will allow us to store as many bikes as possible in the space. I was thinking about some hooks that hold the front wheel and then some sort of floor based storage so that a lot of bikes fit in there.
Any ideas gratefully received.
Ben