How To Hang Bike In Garage Ceiling

Mark the location of the joist on the garage ceiling.

How to hang bike in garage ceiling.

If you have a tight 2 car garage and are trying to park both your cars inside this is not for you. Lift your bicycle and mount the wheel on the hook. Bikes are hung vertically obviously so you need to have enough floor to ceiling space for the length of the bikes. Move your fist side to side as you knock.

Begin by knocking on your garage ceiling around where you d like to hang your bike. If you hear a hollow sound there is no joist there. This will allow you to anchor both bike hooks into a stud. The gladiator geartrack bike rack shown here comes with track and four hooks.

Buy a heavy duty plastic coated hook from home center to maintain weight and resist scratches for your bike. After you have all of your tools and materials gathered start searching for studs in the ceiling. A solid sound however indicates that you ve found a joist. Keep the ceiling joist in the place above the garage where you desire to hang the bike by getting them in an attic and alter these measurements to the garage wall or applying a stud finder to the ceiling of the garage.

One for a kid s bike one quick release hook for an adult bike and two hooks for helmets. Locate a joist in your ceiling. Rotate your bike slowly lifting the metal rim of the back wheel over the curve of the hook. But you also need to have enough space for those bikes to stick off of the wall and into whatever room you re storing them in.

Hold your bike from the center tube and bring it to the ceiling. Measure the distance between the wheel centers on the bike and drill and install a second hook that distance from the first one to support both wheels of the bike in an inverted position. Remove 1 hand at a time to make sure that your bike is secure. Ideally you will hang the bike in the same direction that the studs are running.