Bicycle stand for the motorhome garage

[Lenny HB]

Hi all
Can I just recommend buying some of these pedals if you store your bike or bikes in your motorhome:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39554366...pid=5339023013&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
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They are an absolute game changer!
So easy to attach or remove & feel like normal MTB pedals.
Putting bikes in the garage without pedals sticking out & catching is sooo much easier!
There are several types of you don't want 'spikey' ones & these don't really need the yellow locking tabs (which are fiddly to remove) as the bit you slide to remove turn to lock anyway.
We tried several types of 'folding' pedal but they always felt unsteady after a while & never felt like 'normal' pedals.

We also remove them as an anti theft device when locked up - hopefully not many people will be carrying spares & difficult to pedal without them

Cheers Chris

I've been using detachable peddles for years so much easier getting the bikes in & out.
On the new bike I've fitted MKS folding peddles almost as good space wise but not quite but so much easier to use.

 

[mapman]

Horses for courses. Was proffering our solution as example.

The recesses in our garage are used for various items such as 2 leisure batteries in bottom left. Inverter, collapsable crate containing tool box, tent pegs, watering can, storm straps and loads of other stuff upper left. The middle that can be reached from inside the hab area has a crate with our cycle shoes, gloves, helmets, locks etc. Bottom right has a hamster basket with e-bike chargers, also a socket to plug chargers into, awning shades and odds and sods. Upper right has black water connection hose, that will likely go elsewhere in an external locker as not actually used it yet. We have a full size spare wheel and tyre that is strapped into bottom left of garage to keep it in place.

Our e-bikes are very large, 1 is Height 41“ (105 cm) / Length 74” (188 cm) and weighs 32Kg with battery. 2nd is a step through Height 41.3“ (105 cm) / Length 76” (193 cm) and weighs 42Kg with battery. Hence 'locking' them together with the Decathlon adaptor. The adaptor can be applied/removed from outside the garage, as are the bungees. Too decrepit to climb in there to fit any more.

The toast racks are also used if we put the e-bikes in the toy store (our converted integral house garage to take up less space than using the rear inbuilt stand). Also use to fit in our SUV with front wheels removed, in concert with the Decathlon adaptor to prevent marking/tearing the leather and Alcantara trim.

We don't always take the bikes in the MH, so don't want fixed racks, to give us flexibility.

We also fit 1 table, 1 chair, 1 footrest in a bag x 2 that fit rear of the e-bikes on the shelf on the bottom of the rear wall. Air windbreak, pump go on the floor between the bike wheels.

My garage on our Caracompact looks very similar to yours but I don’t think I could get those items in and be under the max payload of garage at 150 kg. Do you have an upgraded garage payload ? Or is yours a larger Weinsberg?

 

[KASPAR]

My garage on our Caracompact looks very similar to yours but I don’t think I could get those items in and be under the max payload of garage at 150 kg. Do you have an upgraded garage payload ? Or is yours a larger Weinsberg?

Yours and ours are two different models.

 

[Mr porky]

I've been using detachable peddles for years so much easier getting the bikes in & out.
On the new bike I've fitted MKS folding peddles almost as good space wise but not quite but so much easier to use.

Why that particular brand ?

 

[jeff4066]

Thule velo slide is worth every penny if you have a bad back. Put one in our Laika so when it's out fitting a heavy ebike is just a case of lifting it straight up and not sideways into the garage

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[Richard P]

We have been using the Pedi-Packer from German company Idea-Regale. This is a lightweight frame that is used in a garage and can take two electric bikes. The frame is not bolted down and therefore can easily be removed but over thousands of miles driving has always kept our bikes secure. The only downside is the cost of the frame.