Bike Hanger - Overhead Pulley System with 100lbs Capacity for Bicycles and Ladders - Secure Garage Ceiling Storage by Rad Sportz, Green

I'm in college, so space is limited for me and my 3 bikes (road, hybrid, mountain - so the whole range of frame sizes. I also use the largest frame available on each since I'm fairly tall.) I tried to design a system like this one Friday night / Saturday morning after having some friends over for some typical college social type activities and realizing floor space was limited in my apartment. The next day we went to the store and bought supplies to build the contraption. Needless to say it was less than impressive and about two or three times the price of one of these units, given we tried assembling and building the thing while partaking in typical college weekend activities, which do not mix well with ladders... or tailgating chairs rather (in the absence of proper chairs or a ladder). Then I found this deal on one of those daily deal websites and bought three units since they, combined were cheaper than my failure of a device and cheaper than the gravity bike stand I had my eye on at the bike shop in town, by about $30 (remember, combined)! I thought to myself, "That is a helluva deal!" So I bought three. The only difficulty I had with these was locating a proper anchoring point in the ceiling... so after some Spiderman acrobatics in the attic (don't tell my landlord!) we made one, dropped ceiling and all... and found a place to anchor the projector to the ceiling, and run some Ethernet cords thru the air vents to satisfy my rainy day, bandwidth hungry, Netflix and gaming habits. Anyways, despite the story of why and how I came about buying these things, they are great and I plan on taking them with me for the foreseeable future. Just be prepared for some work finding sturdy anchoring.

This is a great and easy product to use and install. It has a safety feature so the bike doesn't drop at once or falls if you let go the cord. This is a great product that works well with little kids (especially since the rope is long enough to reach the floor). It doesn't require much strength to lower the bike and has the safety so even if you let go the rope the bike doesnt come crashing down. It works like a curtain mechanism. I bought these and installed these for my family's so they have more garage space.

Review by Quilt Lady’s hubby: With winter coming we needed a way to store her new e-bike. I have all our other bikes hanging from their wheels, but with 10’ ceilings this bike is just too heavy for me to flip and raise by hand. This system looked like our best solution. Install went fine. I chose to secure a 4” x 48” piece of 9/16” plywood along a truss with 2” screws first, then attached the 2 brackets to it with my own screws. I had bought the velcro straps some others suggested, but I simply bent the hooks on the brackets more to form a tighter loop. Yeah the rubber covers slip off, but once the hooks are in place they stay put. Because the bike is so much heavier at the rear the bike does not lift evenly at all. I found I had lift that end occasionally during the lifting process to level it out. This was actually easier with the 2 of us. I suspect a normal bike will go up smoothly. I learned that if the pulley that’s at the end end where you’re pulling the rope doesn’t go straight up it can jam the locking device, then you can’t lower the bike. This is happened because I had to grab the rear of the bike much further back than I had originally planned since the drive motor is in the rear hub. We were able to resolve the jammed locking situation by simply reversing the position of the bike. Yes, the rope can come off the pulleys and jam between the pulley and bracket so don’t pull the cord to one side. I might have to swap it out for something a little larger in diameter at a later date, but for now it’s OK. It’s not like we’re going to be hoisting it up and down every day. All in all it works fine for our need and for $18 it does the job. Update: Just bought another one of these so I can get our 65lb bike rack up off the floor and out of the way. I haven’t found it necessary to replace the hooks with the velcro. I simply clamp the tips in the vise and bend the ends more. As far as the rubber ends coming off, just wrap some electrical tape to keep them on. My biggest peeve is the quality of the rope. I think the system could benefit from some better ROUND rope.

Supplied screws are of low quality. Used my own longer screws that don't break. Disabled the rope catch as it showed evidence of breaking strands of the rope as bike was lifted up and down. Didn't figure this to have a good life span. Just installed a catch on wall where rope winds up. Decided to become more cautious and not rely on the friction grips of the lifting fingers. Installed a rope and two metal spring carabiners and used them to attach to bike frame. No the bike isn't falling off at all.

I bought this item for the low price. I did follow another reviewers advice and made some modifications that were fairly easy to make. An excerpt from his review below is the same procedure I followed: “Replace the hook with a 1/4" threaded eye-bolt ( a few bucks at a hardware store) attached with a lock nut. Make sure the eye bolt stem clears the rope on the pulley's interior. Then purchase two (available on Amazon) Velcro Easy hangs, rated at 85 lbs each. The easy hangs have a carabeaner that will snap into the replaced eye-bolts, and these will firmly strap to your bikes handlebar stem and rear seat or rear frame.” I bought the needed items at Home Depot, and used three smaller carabiner straps that are 30 lb capacity each which is more than enough. Overall this is a good product but I wouldn’t use without the changes. See images as a reference.