Just because you’re happy to let cycling monopolise your time and money doesn’t mean you should let it take over your space too. There are plenty of smart bike storage solutions out there, after all.
Whether you want to display your machines to maximum effect or keep them safe from theft, we’ve rounded up a selection of the best bicycle storage solutions to help you reclaim your home.
It’s an ideal way to free up your hallway or organising your garage – you might even find you’ve room for one more bike once you’ve put the existing ones in order.
Best bicycle storage ideas at a glance
- Hornit Clug: RRP £15.99 – Buy now from Amazon (£15.99)
- Hiplok Airlok: RRP £179.99 – Buy now from Tweeks Cycles (£130)
- Cactus Tongue Roadie: RRP £129.95 – Buy now from Tredz (£129.95)
- Altar: RRP €149 – Buy now from Altar (€149)
- Feedback Sports Velo Wall Post: RRP £38 – Buy now from Amazon (£38)
- Feedback Sports Velo Hinge: RRP £30 – Buy now from Amazon (£30)
- PRO Bike Display Stand: RRP £27.99 – Buy now from Tredz (£23.99)
- Trophy Bike Racks Bull: RRP $110 – Buy now from Trophy Bike Racks (£44.50)
- Delta El Greco Hoist: Buy now from Amazon (£29.99)
- Topeak Dual-Touch Bike Stand: RRP £179.99 – Buy now from CycleStore (£161.99)
- Cyclehoop Bikeshelf: RRP £55.99 – Buy now from Cyclehoop (£46)
- Delta Dali Hinge Hook & Tray: RRP £31.99 – Buy now from Tredz (£28.79)
- Stashed SpaceRail Bike Storage system: Buy now from Stashed (£159.99)
Best bike storage ideas in-depth
1. Hornit Clug and Clug Pro: Best discrete solution
£15.99 | View offer
Bike storage just doesn’t come much smaller than the Clug. Oddly named it may be, but the two-part ‘G’ shaped clamp wraps around your tyre and grips just short of the rim so it’s in no danger of damaging anything important, hardware-wise, on your bike.
This ‘roadie’ version claims to work for tyres sized from 23mm up to 32mm, and versions for wider hybrid and MTB tyres are also available.
Designed to support rather than take the whole weight of your machine, it’s rated to hold one bike up to 13kg and obviously won’t work with flat tyres, although it does work either horizontally or vertically if you prefer.
Want a little extra security? The Clug Pro adds an innovative magnet and ratchet system to ensure your bike always stays secure. Using Fidlock’s magnetic technology, its minimalist strap snaps into place to automatically secure your bike.
Dialling down to lock the wheel in place, there are versions to suit everything from skinny tyre road bikes up to fat tyre mountain bikes.
- Buy now from Amazon (£15.99)
2. Hiplok Airlok: The most secure bike stand
£130 (RRP £179.99) | View offer
Designed to match the swankiest of city pads, the Airlok is a neat bit of industrial design. A hanger with an integrated lock, it’s available in white, black, grey or red to match either your bike or wallpaper.
Aesthetics aside, more crucially it comes with a Gold Sold Secure rating, meaning the Airlok is recognised by almost all insurers. There’s also a programme allowing you to order replacement keys should you lose the three provided.
Designed to resist being wrenched off its fixings, even if a thief should succeed, the Airlok will remain attached to the bike, so making off with it should be difficult.
- Buy now from Tweeks Cycles (£130)
3. Cactus Tongue Roadie: Most stylish bike storage
£129.95 | View offer
This stainless steel and leather bike hanger is way too pretty and curvaceous to banish to the garage.
Simply fixing to the wall via two screws, it’ll either hold the bike by its top tube or hang it vertically by the handlebars. Sitting just proud enough from the wall to allow for basic maintenance, this Roadie model projects a shorter distance than others in the range.
Available with a selection of different colour leather contact sleeves to match your paint job, there are also versions suited to wider handlebar bikes, along with cheaper powder-coated models.
- Buy now from Tredz (£129.95)
4. Altar: The most organised storage solution
€149 | View offer
A single shrine in which to accommodate all your cycling gear. If you’re happy to devote a chunk of your wall to the Altar, it promises to tidy up your cycling life.
Besides the obvious space it provides for your bike, it includes two levels on which to accommodate kit like helmets and shoes.
Subdivided by smaller shelves for accessories like sunglasses or a pump, these attach magnetically, allowing them to be infinitely adjusted.
The main body of the Altar is cushioned to avoid damage to the top tube and it mixes aluminium and steel to blend strength with minimal weight.
Designed and made in Italy, it’s suitably stylish and comes in a single powder-coated black shade.
- Buy now from Altar (€149)
5. Feedback Sports Velo Wall Post: The strong and simple stand
£38 | View offer
With a weight limit of 22.7kg, the Wall Post offers a little more than the simple hook mounts. It’s still wall-mounted but being a bar means you get a larger working area – in this case about 30cm.
That fold-down bar not only means it’ll pack way when not in use but also gives you room to hang your bike by its saddle, and perhaps a spare frame or a fancy set of wheels too.
As you’d expect, the bar is padded to protect the rim or saddle from damage and as added security there’s space to thread a lock through, to help slow down thieves.
6. Feedback Sports Velo Hinge: Low-profile bike storage
£38 | View offer
As we’ve discussed, bike storage is great but it so easily becomes an awkward hassle when not in use, which is one of the reasons we so like the Velo Hinge.
The backplate gets bolted to the wall (or whatever you’re hanging your bike from), the cover opens and reveals the hook upon which you can hang your wheel, frame or complete bike.
Once done storing, the hook can be popped away leaving the fairly minimal unit on the wall. The standard hook will accommodate tyre/wheel depths up to 74mm, and a longer hook version is available for depths up to 99mm.
7. PRO Bike Display Stand: The easiest bike stand option
£23.99 (RRP £27.99) | View offer
PRO’s Bike stands are so ubiquitous that if you’ve ever been in a bike shop it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve seen at least one, but more likely a whole row of bikes on them. The fact that you might not have noticed probably says heaps for the styling that puts the bike first.
A simple pair of fingers with protective rubber sleeves save the frame from scratches as the reducing gap between the fingers guides and traps the rear wheel axle whilst the wave section in the footing gives the tyre a location and reduces the likelihood of it toppling over.
The downside of this type of stand is it often doesn’t work all that well on bikes with disc brakes.
8. Trophy Bike Racks Bull: The quirkiest bike storage stand
£110 | View offer
Display your bike without degrading your decor. The Trophy Bike Racks Bull takes the form of a cartoon taxidermy bull’s head, with the horns providing a perch for your bike.
Nice to look at empty or laden with a bike, the rack’s minimalist outline is formed of solid steel meaning it’s as strong as its namesake. With space for four mounting screws integrated into the frame itself, it comes supplied with fitting kits suitable for brick, plasterboard or timber.
Handmade in Kent, there’s also a lux version featuring copper plating and hand-stitched leather on the horns suitable for the swankiest homes.
- Buy now from Trophy Bike Racks (£44.50)
9. Delta El Greco Hoist: Best for small spaces
£29.99 | View offer
In the El Greco, Delta has managed to make a simple but handy storage device for those with high ceilings.
A relatively simple pulley system has a pair of hooks built into the lowering section that picks up on your bars and under your saddle to allow you to hoist the bike off the ground and out of harm’s way, where you can then lock off the cord.
An auto-locking feature is built-in, so you shouldn’t be able to undo it accidentally and have your bike fall. The maximum load is 22.6kg and obviously requires that you have a suitable ceiling to work with.
- Buy now from Amazon (£29.99)
10. Topeak Dual-Touch Bike Stand: Best for multiple bikes
£161.99 | View offer
Fitting between floor and ceiling, the Topeak Dual Touch Bike Stand installs without tools thanks to a quick-release fastening.
It comes as standard with two bike mounts and there are fixing points to fit a second pair on the back if necessary. All of these are then adjustable, with both the angle of the cradle and the width of the jaws being independently movable.
Capable of carrying 18kg per hook the entire stand can support 72kg and will provide a home to an entire fleet of bikes. When not in use the whole assembly folds down for unobtrusive storage.
11. Cyclehoop Bikeshelf: Best for industrial design and security
£46 | View offer
The Cyclehoop Bikeshelf will help you reclaim floor space while also providing extra storage. With the shelf’s main hook accommodating the bike, the top of the Bikeshelf is a great spot for your helmet or a pot plant.
Below both is a second ledge for stashing accessories. Always there when you grab your bike it’s the perfect home for your multi-tool, levers and pump.
Built from 5mm thick plate steel and with four solid fixings, there’s a hole in the top allowing you to lock your bike in place. The Bikeshelf weighs 9kg before you even add a bike, so it’s definitely one for solid walls and not plasterboard.
- Buy now from Cyclehoop (£46)
12. Delta Dali Hinge Hook: Simple and cheap
£28.79 | View offer
The top section of this two-part wall mount folds away when not in use to save space. Flipped out it comprises a hook and backing plate. It’s able to fit a wide range of tyre widths and a broad plastic bumper stops the hook from damaging your rims.
With the hinge allowing the bike to pivot to the side, it’s possible to mount it hanging straight or turned over to the side.
13: Stashed SpaceRail Bike Storage system: Best for flexibility
£159.99 | View offer
This is a space-saving storage solution which stores bikes close together and allows for a great degree of flexibility.
The SpaceRail is, well, a rail that affixes to the ceiling (there’s a wall-mount option too), and uses hooks with an auto-locking ball-joint mechanism to lock in the bikes.
It has a sliding hook system which overlaps bikes and stores them much closer together, compared to traditional bike hanging methods.
According to Stashed, while most methods will limit bike spacings to 350-400mm in width, the SpaceRail allows spacings down to 150mm.
What’s more, it’s designed to work with all bike types, so perfect for whatever you have been keeping cooped up in the garage.
A key element of the SpaceRail is that it is modular, so you can add bikes with the brand’s rail extension kit as your collection expands.
Stashed offers rails for up to 12 bikes which could really be a game changer for space. Imagine 12 bikes all neatly stored?
- Buy now from Stashed (from £159.99)
What should I consider when looking at bicycle storage?
Where do I have space?
Before purchasing, step back and assess where in your house has the most space to safely store your bike. This initial, quite basic question will likely influence what you end up buying in the long term as there’s no point in buying a storage option specific to one room if you end up storing your bike elsewhere in the long run.
Do I need to keep the bike secure?
If you cannot keep your bike stored within the four walls of your home and have to keep your pride and joy in the shed or garage, you will likely want to pick an option that comes with either a lock or the ability to affix a lock to it.
Do I care how it looks?
If you are planning to store your bike indoors, chances are you will want your storage device to look half decent. After all, it’ll be there for all visitors to see. So keeping that in mind, consider whether the solution you pick will suit the rest of your furniture.
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