Wall Mounted Bicycle Storage

Wall mounted bicycle storage is a popular method for keeping your bike safe from accidental damage and keeping your home tidy and organised. Providing you have a brick wall to screw in to installing wall mounted bicycle storage is easy. If you want to hang a bike on a plasterboard wall the task is much more difficult – you will need to find either the joists in the wall or strengthen the wall by inserting a piece of plywood behind the pasteboard.

Wall mounted bike storage comes in two flavours. The most common type is the sort that has two arms that come out of the wall so that you put the arms through the frame of your bicycle and the top tube of your frame sits on the arms. The second type of wall mount bicycle storage  is where a hook comes out of the wall and you hang the front wheel of your bike from it. Personally I don’t like this second method for these four reasons:

1. It’s awkward to hang your bike on it.
2. It must put unnecessary frame on your front wheel bearing, headset bearing and fork. 
3. The bike sticks out perpendicular to the wall and takes up floor space.
4. The bike can still be knocked by accident – and in the case of some of the hooks I have seen, your bicycle could easily be knocked off the hook and then some damage is going to occur to your bicycle and more than likely the person that knocked it off.

You’ve probably gathered by now that I don’t like this method of hanging your bike on the wall at all so if you want to get a bicycle rack that fixes to the wall get the sort that has two arms coming away from the wall as shown in the image below:

 
The best type of ‘arm’ type bicycle rack that you can buy are the sort that have individual arms. The individual arms will allow you top position the arms of the rack so that your bike can be mounted with the wheels parallel to the floor. It doesn’t really matter if they are not, but it does look much tidier if they are. Having individual arms will also cater for far more bicycle types and you will easily be able to wall mount BMX’s, roads bike, mountain bikes and hybrid bikes.

Which ever type of wall mounted bicycle storage type you decide to buy, do make sure that the arms of the bracket are well padded to not damage the frame of your bicycle.

If you want to mount your bike on the wall but don’t have the cash to buy an expensive wall mount bicycle storage solution take a look at how to make an economical wall mounted bicycle storage solution.