I interviewed Chris Hodney, who works with Hacker Architects in Portland, Oregon, another cycling-mad city, and has made a specialty of evaluating bicycle storage for apartments and office buildings.
The Michelangelo even has a couple of extra hooks for accessories, so you have somewhere other than your handlebars to hang your helmet.įor this review, I polled cyclists on my commute group’s email list (which numbers more than 3,000) in San Francisco-a place where bike infrastructure is expanding but individual living spaces are shrinking-about how they keep their bikes both safe and out of the way. Repositioning the arms (don’t do this while a bike is on the rack!) is simply a matter of twisting them until they move freely-here, you’ll need no tools at all, which means that this rack is also easier than all the others to adjust once assembled. The support arms that hold up the bikes on the Michelangelo are movable, allowing the stand to handle bikes with sloping top tubes or complex full-suspension frames. Plus, its ladderlike frame is made of slender but tough steel tubing that keeps the stand from dominating your interior-decorating scheme. It’s also low-impact, requiring a grand total of one screw to attach it to the wall-and although the directions strongly recommend attaching the stand to the wall, many people we spoke to didn’t bother at all and never had any problems (mind your earthquakes!). The Michelangelo was easier to assemble than all the other options we tested, requiring only a Phillips screwdriver and a drill.
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