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Stowaway Stashes your Bike On the Ceiling to Free Up Space in your Appartment

Written by Zach Overholt
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Stowaway bike storage

Riding a bike in the city is great. Living with a bike in the city can be not so great. As housing costs continue to skyrocket in major cities, the size of apartments and even homes can make it difficult to store your bike.

Rather than leave it locked up outside to be destroyed or stolen, or leave it propped up in your hallway taking up room and marking up the walls, Stowaway thought why not use the space on the ceiling? The result is a bike storage unit that makes it easy to make your bike go up, up, and out of the way…

Stowaway bike storage

Far from the first storage device to hoist your bike up with pulleys, what makes the Stowaway unique (as far as we’re aware) is the ability to store the bike flat on the ceiling without actually mounting any of the device to the ceiling. Instead, the device uses a cantilevered arm that is anchored to the wall.

Perhaps more important, is the built in counter weight system which claims to reduce the amount of weight you have to lift by half. Fully adjustable with an integrated cable brake and color coded straps, the Stoway looks to be fairly easy to use.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yourstowaway/stowaway-the-ultimate-bike-storage-solution-for-yo

During their Kickstarter campaign, Stowaway units are selling for $107 for the early bird with about 200 left. Then the price goes up only to $118.
Zach Overholt
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Zach Overholt is the Editor in Chief of Bikerumor. He has been writing about what’s new in the bicycle world for 12+ years. Prior to that, Zach spent many years in the back of a bicycle shop building and repairing nearly every type of bike, while figuring out how to (occasionally) ride them.

Based in Ohio, Zach is now slowly introducing a new generation to cycling and still trying to figure out how to fit the most rides into a busy schedule as a new dad.

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DRC
DRC
9 years ago

Keeping an eye on these. Would be nice to store a few bikes on the garage ceiling instead of all over the walls where they still take up too much space.

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dewey stace
dewey stace
9 years ago

I would buy this as well. Eight bikes and a few frames. Space is critical.

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Mike
Mike
9 years ago

Not a new idea. I have 2 bikes on floaterhoists. This is the best way to store bikes in a small space.

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Antipodean_eleven
Antipodean_eleven
9 years ago

Nice idea, new or not. Pretty useless if you don’t have high ceilings though.

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Mike
Mike
9 years ago

i use a strap from the downtube to the rim that reduces the bar turn and profile. i’m 5′ 9′ and works with 8′ ceilings

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Venge
Venge
9 years ago

Not sure any hydraulic disk breakes my like this in the long run..

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Veganpotter
Veganpotter
9 years ago

Unless you have really wide mountain bars and/or are over 6’4″ with an 8′ tall ceiling, I don’t see this being a problem. Also, if you set it up so the bars aren’t somewhere you typically walk right under, also, no problem. Sadly though, I have doubts this will get funded. Their goal was way too high for a product like this. Up the price $10 and cut the goal in half or more than half.

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Mike
Mike
9 years ago

Prove to me that my wheels will not touch the wall at some stage.

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Matthew
Matthew
9 years ago

In my experience, the apartments where you want to put stuff inside and hanging from the ceiling the most are the apartments with terms in the lease prohibiting you mounting stuff to the wall larger than a tack nail for hanging a picture. My landlord would’ve had an aneurysm if I had mounted one of these…

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Mike
Mike
9 years ago

one of my bikes tires marks my walls. and this thing has to be screwed in. to the ceiling! Thankfully walls can be cleaned and drywall patching is super easy. If you have 3 bikes, no garage and live in 1000 sq ft like me, they are a great solution.

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Will
Will
9 years ago

It’s not a bad idea, but good luck letting landlords give you permission to screw it into the walls if your renting.. But I’d have some in my garage for sure

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mudrock
mudrock
9 years ago

I see the mounting as an issue: two screws spaced an inch apart, one pair 6-8″ below the other, 4 total. they obviously have to be screwed into studs, just sheetrock won’t do. generally sheetrock is secured to 2×4 studs on edge, which is only 1.5″ wide.

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i
9 years ago

Great solution for people that are short enough to not use the top half of their living space. For some of us, the bike would be just one more thing to have to smash our heads on.

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TypeVertigo
TypeVertigo
9 years ago

Cool idea.

I wonder if the straps will also work on a small-wheeled bike, like a mini velo?

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Dennison D. Schleck III Esquire
Dennison D. Schleck III Esquire
9 years ago

I will be using it to hang my ebike in my 48 square foot apartment.

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