How To Hang Bike In Garage Ceiling

After you have all of your tools and materials gathered start searching for studs in the ceiling.

How to hang bike in garage ceiling.

Move your fist side to side as you knock. If you hear a hollow sound there is no joist there. Mark the location of the joist on the garage ceiling. Locate a joist in your ceiling.

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. Drill a pilot hole slightly smaller than the threads on the screw hooks and install one of the hooks. Remove 1 hand at a time to make sure that your bike is secure. 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.

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. Lift your bicycle and mount the wheel on the hook. This will allow you to anchor both bike hooks into a stud. When hanging bikes in the garage wall track systems are an attractive and easy to use solution.

One for a kid s bike one quick release hook for an adult bike and two hooks for helmets. Bikes are hung vertically obviously so you need to have enough floor to ceiling space for the length of the bikes. If you have a tight 2 car garage and are trying to park both your cars inside this is not for you. 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. Rotate your bike slowly lifting the metal rim of the back wheel over the curve of the hook. Hold your bike from the center tube and bring it to the ceiling. Ideally you will hang the bike in the same direction that the studs are running.