Has anyone used or installed a Steadyrack for their bike before? I have no idea how to hang/store my bikes (I have 3) in my garage and have been leaning toward getting some Steadyracks. I am wondering if it will work for a triathlon bike. Thank you.
Yeah, I have 3 installed, road, gravel, MTB. I have the TT bike one still boxed up waiting for me to hang. They recommend the “Fender Rack” for TT bikes, to accommodate possible tight gap between the front wheel and the down tube. The three I have are awesome. Works just as advertised. Installation was also pretty easy.
Yeah, I have 3 installed, road, gravel, MTB. I have the TT bike one still boxed up waiting for me to hang. They recommend the “Fender Rack” for TT bikes, to accommodate possible tight gap between the front wheel and the down tube. The three I have are awesome. Works just as advertised. Installation was also pretty easy.
Dang - you’re right. I bought the road bike Steadyrack months ago, but haven’t installed it - with the intention of using it for my tri bike. I’ll have to get the fender rack for my tri bike. Thank you.
I have four. I think they are worth the money. The spacing is kind of obnoxious as going each stud is too close together (unless you stagger height) and every other stud seems like a lot of wasted space. Bikes are kind of long so if you don’t have a taller ceiling, you can’t really get them up high enough to stagger handlebars and go stud by stud for mounting.
One perk is that the larger/wider racks like the fat bike rack will still hold just about any other bike. I have a fat rack in my garage to hold my fat bike with studded tires in the winter, but it can hold other bikes as well.
I don’t think there are many tri bikes that wouldn’t work with the classic rack. Something that really hugs the front wheel like a Cervelo P5X, Diamondback Andean or a couple of the Dimond bikes probably wouldn’t, but anything with a straightish downtube (even with cutout) should be fine. My BMC Timemachine fits with plenty of clearance.
I have 3 mounted to hold my road , mtb and TT bikes. My speed concept mount fine in the standard steady rack. I also have them mounted to the wall on 16†center. Each bike had a different wheel base length so the tops won’t align anyways.
Great product and keeps the bike safely mounted so the kids aren’t knocking them over in the garage.
Highly don’t recommend “steadyrack”. Massively overkill and doesn’t work with aero frames or fenders. Designed for super heavy ebikes or whatever.
Highly instead recommend simple hinge style rim hook like this: https://www.mec.ca/en/product/5037-487/velo-hinge-bicycle-storage-rack
If the link breaks look up “Feedback Sports Velo Hinge”.
I have 3 bikes nicely on my wall with these, work great, way more minimal
I have 6 of them, one fat bike specific and one mountain bike specific. My 2016 Shiv fits fine on the regular rack, did not get a fender rack for it. They install easy, work great.
Doesn’t look like that will take a deep front wheel. So non starter.
It has a different hook for deep wheels
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I’ve never used that, but I just got this freestanding rack for my garage: https://www.tealtriangle.com/g-system/kits/freestanding-g-bike
No affiliation, other than happy with it so far. We have 3 road bikes on it, though one is hanging from a Flo 60 wheel. It would work for my tri bike, but that’s on the trainer.
I picked this because I have a challenging wall situation for hanging something, plus it keeps the back wheel off the wall too. The bikes are high enough that I can keep kid stuff like scooters and things underneath.
Highly don’t recommend “steadyrack”. Massively overkill and doesn’t work with aero frames or fenders. Designed for super heavy ebikes or whatever.
It works just fine with my aero frames, and there’s a version for fenders as well.
I almost got the Feedback one, but I’m snobbish in that whether car rack or wall rack, I like the tires to be contact points, not some part of the bike not designed to take weight. Particularly for Flo/HED type wheels.
If your wheels can’t hold 15-20 lbs static i sure hope you never ride over a small pothole! 😅
Most of the deep wheel manufacturers who are a carbon fairing over an aluminum rim recommend not hanging the bike by a wheel hook. The fairing is thin and essentially cosmetic just to be aerodynamic.
If your wheels can’t hold 15-20 lbs static i sure hope you never ride over a small pothole! 😅
I get the humor, but HED wheels (the kind with the “fairing”) are designed to take a load on the outer diameter, not the inner diameter. You can deflect the fairing with a few pounds of static force from a finger.
My front wheel is 58mm, rear wheel is 88mm. Will the fender-specific Steadyrack hold my tri bike?
My front wheel is 58mm, rear wheel is 88mm. Will the fender-specific Steadyrack hold my tri bike?
Wheel depth is not the issue with Steadyrack and tri bikes. It can take a full front disc wheel (and I’ve done this with a track pursuit bike). The issue is a possible tight gap between the tire and the downtube. If you can slide, say, a thickish pencil along your downtube all the way to the headtube without the pencil getting stuck between the tire and the frame, you’re good.
If you have something closer to a credit card-type gap between tire and frame, the “fender rack” is the version where the “cradle” for the front tire is around “double credit card” in width, designed to be narrow enough to fit between a fender and tire.
I installed 2 of the Feedback Sports wall mount racks and they have worked fine. I mounted them high enough on the garage wall that the side view mirror of a car passes under the tire. If you hit one of the bikes, you’ve driven through the wall already.
https://www.feedbacksports.com/product/velo-wall-rack-2d-black/