Racor - Ceiling-Mounted Bike Lift - Up to 50 lbs

This bike lift appears to be of great quality and works great! Installation was not very difficult (but make sure you have a good stud finder or some other way of making sure the screws are drilled in the center of the 2X4's), and raising and lowering the bike is even easier! The pulley system helps distribute the weight in such a way that it is not as hard as you would think lifting or lowering a 40 pound mountain bike. It feels like it about cuts the weight in half. There is also a catch on the end of the pulley so that even if you let go of the rope, the bike stays where it's at rather than crashes to the ground! The catch works so well, it almost seems that the rope-tie thing mounted to the wall is redundant (but redundancy never hurt anyone right?, and plus it gets the rope out of the way). The way the catch works is somewhat like vertical blinds. If you pull straight down or towards the wall mounted rope-tie thing, it will only raise the bike and won't lower them. You have to pull the rope back the other direction away from the wall to release the catch, and then keep the rope at that angle while lowering the bike. It really works great. My wife and I bought two of them for our bikes and love them! If you're worried about whether the hood of your vehicle will fit underneath the raised bikes, measure how tall your bike is and then add about 10 inches or so to tell you how low they will hang from the ceiling (the handle bars/seat of our bikes are around 8-10 inches from the ceiling when fully raised). Overall, this lift is very well made, easy to use, saves tons of space, and is a great deal! Solid five stars!

I was worried I would hate this. Ceiling mounted? I have a three car garage and with my parents moving in, we have three cars: mine, wife, parents...(and my dad's motorcycle). Add in the bikes, the lawnmower, garbage, recycling, tools, tablesaw, blah blah blah - sheesh! a three car garage that is built to be extra wide and deep is full! The bikes were always in the way, it was a problem. I started looking at a solution to get the bikes off the ground and out of the aisle. In winter we don't ride them, let's say 4 months of use in the upper Midwest. So when I discovered the ceiling mount I thought, well, for less than $20 a pop, I can hang four bikes and it's less than most bike racks that go on a wall. I admit I got them from a different box store so I can do it asap. Finding the rafters was a problem until I sent my wife to the store for a 9v for my studfinder. Then it got easy. Aside from a tangled ball of string, once you do one, the rest are easy. The most time was finding all the tools needed and setting up the ladders. My ceiling here is 14 feet tall. So it was mounted at the top. I measured from the wall and the peak to get them approximately even. I used a set 30 inch distance between hangers for all the bikes even though one is a child bike. The installation did not include anything difficult unless you are scared of heights or don't have the tools or a ladder. If you have all that it's fine. I set up two tall ladders and just stayed up there while my father put the hooks together and handed me each of the mounts. I measured, predrilled and lag-screwed them in. I tied them off to the existing 2x shelving I built earlier. I asked my wife to come over and lift/lower her bike - which she was able to do relatively easily. The cord will auto-catch if one lets go. I used the butterfly anchors provided and everything worked as advertised. I mounted them off to an angle so there are two that secure to the left and two to the right, of a 8 foot wide shelf with supports to either side. The angled position of the cord does not affect the security of the bikes. Now I have them up and out of the way. It's great. I do need to back my parent's car out of the third bay to get the bikes down, but that's not a big deal at all. I can just pull the car out of the garage and leave it outside for an hour until we return. Overall I'm glad I did this instead of a wall mounted rack. It was more time-consuming to install - requiring more tools and two tall ladders (for me since my 3rd bay is 14 feet tall) but I like it a lot better.

Surprised me about how little effort it takes to raise a 36 lb bike to the ceiling. I was expecting to need a pretty stog pull to raise it up to a 12 foot ceiling recess that I have in the garage. Given the way the pulley system is arranged it seems that you're lifting about halt that weight. Of course, to do that you have to pull twice the amount of rope. I would also suggest gloves due to the small rope diameter. Works very nicely to raise a fat tire mountain bike. The locking mechanism is an excellent idea. It can hold the bike at any height.

This bike lift works great -- we purchased four (three were another brand, but identical design) for our garage and are happy with them. We were able to position each bike about 16" apart and have no trouble getting any bike up or down. I have several hints from our installation, and two complaints, but on the whole am very satisfied: Positive: * Works smoothly * Clever, simple system * Locking mechanism for rope is nice * Installation is straightforward Negative: * Hooks need a safety strap, depending on where you attach them Hints: * I attached the hooks to a lower location on each bike to have the bike lifted all the way to the ceiling. This gives me enough room to stand beneath the bikes without bending my head. * I used some of the extra rope, after cutting to an appropriate length, for safety straps for the hooks. Depending on where the hooks attach, they may not have enough bite to fully trust -- easy way to prevent potential injury (see an earlier post on earthquakes!!) * I don't recommend using the supplied bracket for excess rope. I just coiled the rope and hung it from one of the quick-release levers on the bike. Works great, and keeps the ropes from getting tangled. On the whole, I'm very happy with our purchase. I would also recommend looking at the off-brand version of this mount -- I purchased three of the off brand -- they're identical in design, but with slightly cheaper rope. It was worth the over $100 savings, in my opinion. Off-brand version: Bike Hoist / Ceiling Mounted Bicycle Lift (LIFETIME WARRANTY)

Easy to fit and easy to use.

Fácil de Instalar y muy practico para aprovechar espacios, la cuerda esta lo suficientemente larga como para colocarla en techos altos.

Not very well engineered; it does the job, but I could have constructed a much better device by buying pulleys and ropes from the web and from my local builder's merchants - and for less money! I shall be replacing the rope with something more substantial - I don't trust it to hold my bike airborne for weeks at a time! £30+ is a lot to pay for this - probably worth about half that. (note added after ~6 months use): i replaced the rope wiht sashcord from my builders merchant - much better But the pulleys have a lot of play on their axles, and the cord sometimes gets trapped between the pully wheel and the housing. NO excuse for this - they should be better engineered.

prodcuto de calidad , llega super rapido el mejor precio de otras paginas, facil de armar e instalar, a mis amigos.

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