“I have been hanging innumerable bikes this way for decades, and have yet to see any damage from it,” Zinn told me.
One pleasant surprise is that our bike experts agreed unanimously that hanging a bike by its front wheel won’t hurt the wheel. (Think twice, though, if you have hydraulic brakes. I checked in with Lennard Zinn (a frame builder who literally wrote the book on bike repair), David Kendall at Calfee Design (this shop is the last resort for anyone with a busted-up carbon bike), and Ric Hjertberg at Wheel Fanatyk (where you can find anything you’d need to build wheels, from finely wrought spokes to well-tuned advice) to get their opinions on storage options-and to make sure that it is, in fact, okay to hang a bike by its front wheel, even if the rim is made of expensive and easily damaged carbon.
#MOVABLE PULLEY MANUAL#
I read Eben Weiss’s The Ultimate Bicycle Owner’s Manual to see what the opinionated Bike Snob NYC (Weiss’s nom de guerre) had to say on the topic. I interviewed Chris Hodney, who works with Hacker Architects in Portland, Oregon, another cycling-mad city, and has made a specialty of evaluating bicycle storage for apartments and office buildings. The Michelangelo even has a couple of extra hooks for accessories, so you have somewhere other than your handlebars to hang your helmet.įor this review, I polled cyclists on my commute group’s email list (which numbers more than 3,000) in San Francisco-a place where bike infrastructure is expanding but individual living spaces are shrinking-about how they keep their bikes both safe and out of the way. Repositioning the arms (don’t do this while a bike is on the rack!) is simply a matter of twisting them until they move freely-here, you’ll need no tools at all, which means that this rack is also easier than all the others to adjust once assembled. The support arms that hold up the bikes on the Michelangelo are movable, allowing the stand to handle bikes with sloping top tubes or complex full-suspension frames. Plus, its ladderlike frame is made of slender but tough steel tubing that keeps the stand from dominating your interior-decorating scheme. It’s also low-impact, requiring a grand total of one screw to attach it to the wall-and although the directions strongly recommend attaching the stand to the wall, many people we spoke to didn’t bother at all and never had any problems (mind your earthquakes!). The Michelangelo was easier to assemble than all the other options we tested, requiring only a Phillips screwdriver and a drill.
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