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StowawayVideo: Stowaway stores bikes on the ceiling
A cunning bicycle storage solution for small homes has been designed which winches your steed onto the ceiling sideways.
It’s pretty ingenious: the bike, then the wheels are strapped, and then the whole thing winched to the ceiling using a pulley. Its makers claim that, thanks to the counterweight pulley system, you only lift half the bike’s weight.
However, the Kickstarter campaign for the Stowaway bike storage solution only has four left to run – until 8am Christmas day – and at this stage it’s unclear if it will meet its €100,000 goal, as it’s only raised a quarter of that money so far.
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
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It's not a counterweight system, and they don't claim it is. It's a 2:1 pulley system- you pull double the length in order to apply half the force
I want to see what happens when you hang a wet and dirty bike up on the ceiling, to me that's the problem....
It's an interesting idea, but to use it you actually need quite a lot of space so this wouldn't work in a narrow hallway. I made a narrow shelf, put a ring on the wall and use a rope and carabina to hold it in place. You have to lift the bike onto the shelf, but it works and cost about £20.