Hanging bikes off plasterboard walls - help!

@ lolo- I have one of those and it is fucking shit.
kept falling over.
now a cycling clothes and coat rack, as well as doubling as a wetsuit dryer....

my racking,find vertical stud and fix to that

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^Ikea Hacker stand, I have two, very good for a minimal price

That's my favourite storage solution, too. Leaves the walls alone.

^Ikea Hacker stand, I have two, very good for a minimal price

How do you attach them to the pole?

The only bits not purchased from Ikea are bolts, nuts and some 20mm square aluminium tubing (squaring?)

The poles come with collar type things which you bolt your alloy tube/bar too, then you use the Ikea hooks and bolt them to the ends of the tube/bar/stock/thing.

Tools needed are an allen key, a junior hacksaw and a drill.

Easy peasy, takes five seconds, costs approx £30 all in.

you can get the square tubing easily from any B+Q....

wow, I'd been looking at the Minoura thing since Oliver told me about it, but that's a very tidy budget option

nice bathroom by the way dammit ;)

Can you use a bike hoist? would seem perfect with such high ceilings?

The ceiling is 4 metres high!

Can you use a bike hoist? would seem perfect with such high ceilings?

Can't go wrong for £9 Unless you use the wrong kind of ladder and fuck yourself up!

Or you put a number of holes in the ceiling trying to find the joist, think "fuck it, must be strong enough" and screw it into the plaster, then come home to find your house has created a loft hatch all on its own?

Liking this.

remembers that tomorrow is BHMonday and Ikea will be full of people beating their children publically prior to feeding them low-grade meat products

I'll go later this week.

Go for the outside walls if possible and get some good rawl plugs, i wouldn't bother messing about on internal dividing stud walls if you don't really have to especially if the studs are those metal strips.

Unfortunately, all the walls are plasterboard - new build.

Sadly the Stolmen poles have a maximum height of 320cm.

That said I think it would be fairly straightforward to purchase 3 and make 2 longer ones with the parts.

Or, if you own the place, scaffold pole would do the job perfectly.

scaf is cheeep and unweildy as fook in long lengths. trying to get it in throuh the windows or up the stairs cann be fun...

Look up the lightweight scaffolding used for indoor work on large sites, perhaps? The tubes are aluminium and a shitload easier to cut and move around than proper steel scaff. A lot of them are "system" setups where the clamps are built into the tubes, but I've definitely used at least one plain alu tube version in the past.

Buff you'll need a 'stud finder' <----insert joke here---->

where are you..? maybe you could borrow one..? or have one of us with said item pop over..?

Or you put a number of holes in the ceiling trying to find the joist, think "fuck it, must be strong enough" and screw it into the plaster, then come home to find your house has created a loft hatch all on its own?

Put the bikes in the loft?

The only bits not purchased from Ikea are bolts, nuts and some 20mm square aluminium tubing (squaring?)

The poles come with collar type things which you bolt your alloy tube/bar too, then you use the Ikea hooks and bolt them to the ends of the tube/bar/stock/thing.

Tools needed are an allen key, a junior hacksaw and a drill.

Easy peasy, takes five seconds, costs approx £30 all in.

looks like you could use this instead of the alu tubing?

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90179932

Loving this, it aint the prettiest but it looks sturdy + tidy. alos as said will leave the walls alone! a pump up version would be good, pretecting the ceiling also.

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/02/stolmen-bike-rack.html
do the ikea hack?

(might not be big enough)