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Ellsworth January 12, 2011 at 8:34 am

This storage rack allows for four bikes easily, with skates, shoes, skis, and a few odds and ends to boot. It has consolidated our garage sporting goods, and has served well as a place to keep things throughout the winter. It is a little bulky, so it takes up more room in the garage than I anticipated, but the benefit substantially outweighs this nominal inconvenience.

Conroy January 12, 2011 at 7:50 pm

The product was extremely easy to setup and assemble. It took me about 30 minutes to assemble the storage rack and hangup the bike.

Pros: Easy to assemble, light

Cons: Seems abit flimsy and shaky, and a little to high for a standard garage

Denver January 13, 2011 at 8:28 am

OK, let me first start by saying on the surface (and in practice) this is a nice rack…Now to the “beware” portion…I bought this new, on sale, at Amazon…product arrived and had obviously been opened/put together before. The zip-ties were cut and laying loose in the box, Some of the components were already partially assembled, The baskets/trays were bent, poles had paint scratched off, and one piece was wedged inside a pole forcing me to use vice-grips to get it out (likely why the previous person returned it)…So, aside from those annoyances, I wanted the rack and didn’t want to wait for a replacement/deal w/ the hassle of boxing it up again/etc. (and the things gonna get scratched/bent anyway)…so assembly was fairly straight-forward…As long as you follow the one part of the instructions that state to not tighten anything until you’ve gotten it fully assembled…I surmise this is because the person/team who designed this likely slept through the part of mechanical design class where they teach the concept and importance of stack up tolerances…nothing lines up w/o some finessing (minimal at first, much more towards the end)…and the hole for the top cross bar was off by a good 1/2″…which leaves a nice rotational aspect to the overall stand when you finally get to tighten everything up…Additionally, the unit I received differed from the unit pictured (hooks were different in style and the manner in which they are attached/installed, and resulted in my having to take a portion of the rack apart to put them on (not the ones for the bikes, but the other, smaller ones for hanging other items), as they must go on as you build it up, not after the fact (I’ll take the blame on that one, as I should have known better))…also, specs on the site state dimensions are 19″ x 27″ x 82″….In reality, it is actually 22″ x 29 1/2″ x 88 1/2″, making it too tall for the place I had originally planned for it to go (the width and depth dimensions are taken at the base, where the legs flare out…if you take them further up, they may be the same as listed in the specs)…Another nit is that the bikes go onto the narrow side of the rack…unfortunately, w/ today’s full suspension bikes and other creative geometries, the uprights where the hooks are located are spaced too wide to fit some bike frames and you’re left w/ finding creative approaches for the hooks (even rotating them inwards doesn’t do the job on some bikes)…two bikes have the hook under the front of the saddle as opposed to the frame, which isn’t the best place for long term storage…a better design would have been to make the stand slightly narrower allowing for better frame placement, but understandably it might make the overall unit “tippy” when adding/removing bikes…In “concept” I give the rack a 5…in “reality” I give it a 1 (due to the condition upon arrival, differences between what is pictured, poor design tolerances, and grossly inaccurate dimensions)…averaging out to my 3 star rating, as it will still prove to be a somewhat convenient method of getting the bikes out of the way…There are likely better options out there, but this seemed the most compact w/ greatest capacity for my 4 bikes and my wifes 2…

Adams January 13, 2011 at 7:45 pm

We live in a small apartment and I cannot imagine being without this. Between my boyfriend and me, we have 6 bikes, 2 snowboards, 2 skis, 2 kayaks, and ALL the gear needed to use this equipment. We basically stuff all of our gear into this thing. We followed advice from reviews on here when putting it together and it was neither impossibly difficult nor really easy. Since we have so much gear though, it was DEFINITELY worth the struggle. We have a ton of stuff on it and it seems to do pretty well. That being said, it could be sturdier; we are not going to put our mountain bikes on the top rack.