Video Transcript for The Low-Down on the Feedback Sports Velo Hinge 2.0 Bike Storage Rack

Hi Matt with etrailer, and today we're talking about the Feedback Sports Velo Hinge 2.0 bike wall mount. Now this will be a great option for you if you have a garage and you have your bikes mounted to the wall and you're running outta space or it's really hard for you to park your vehicle. Having this system today is gonna allow you to save a lot of space because you're gonna be able to push this over to the side and when you don't have a bike on here, you can actually fold that hook into itself to make your wall pretty flush. But let's take a closer look at it. To really show you guys what I'm talking about, about it saving space, I'm gonna get a measurement that's gonna be from the wall to the furthest point out, which is gonna be your handlebar bars in this case, that's gonna be about 43 inches. So now when I fold this in, as you can see, this isn't gonna stick out near as far.

And the closest point or the furthest point we're gonna have at this time is going to be about 33 inches. So that's gonna save you about 10 inches of space. There's a couple things to think about though is the first thing. We have a hook over here that's preventing this from going any further in. So in theory this will get even closer.

And to go off of that is we have a large mountain bike with some pretty far out handlebars. Really this is more designed for your road bikes too. So those handlebars are gonna sit a lot more close. So you're gonna get this really close to your wall. Part of the reason why I say this is more designed for road bikes is also the size of this hook.

This hook is designed the fit tire sizes three inches wide and 3 7/8 inches in depth. And as you can see right here, we're really pushing that measurement right now. So like when you'll see later on when we're getting this tire or this bike up here, it's kind of a pain to do this because that door wants to open up as we're placing in place and it can be kind of tricky to do. Now if you do have a bike with more thin tires like a road bike, that's gonna make it a lot easier. And here's what that process is gonna look like.

Me just lifting up my bike, At the ground mine at the forks, just to get a little bit more control of it and really just lining it up there and see the door already wants to open up, so I'm going to try to arrange this so it can sit on there. We also wanna make sure we're not having all that weight leaning on here, so we wanna make sure it's in the center. Part of what made that a little bit more difficult to put in place is we're gonna have this textured tape on it. So that textured tape is actually really nice when you have a little bit of a smaller tire size because it's gonna help grip your tires so they're not spinning when they're up here. And at the bottom we're gonna have this secondary piece of hardware and this is gonna be a bracket that connects to your wall and that's gonna prevent your tire from sliding out way over here. As you can see, we already have a couple marks on our wall and we we inchesre trying it out earlier without the bracket and it really does make a difference. As for the weight capacity, that's gonna be 50 pounds per bike, which is a decent amount too. Now as you can see, this is a mountain bike and it's a little bit heavier, so that's when it really comes into play. When you're mounting this, it's very important to put this on the studs, 'cause you're gonna have a lot of pressure pulling on them. And to go off of that, if you really needed to, you could put a smaller e-bike up here. I definitely make sure it meets those specs. You probably have to remove that battery too. And like I was saying earlier, this does have the ability to fold in on itself. So earlier when we swung it out, it's actually a door and you can grab this hook and fold it in and when you push it back into place, it's not gonna take up any space at all really. You really just wanna just step maybe like a little bit half an inch or so, which is very flush to our wall. And since we're over here, we can take a closer look at that finish on top. And right now you can really see that textured finishing that's gonna do a good job of grabbing your tire. While it's gonna have this black vinyl finish to it too. And it's just gonna give it more of a clean look overall. And if this we inchesre outside or maybe you we inchesre riding on your bikes and you have a lot of water left on them, this is gonna help prevent any of that water from making contact with that steel and having it rust over time. This is a pretty great option if you are planning on getting maybe a couple bikes up here because one, it doesn't take up a lot of space here, it's just a small state of real estate we have and it does become more compact. Now if you're looking for something that's gonna be at a little bit more premium price point but has the capacity that load even heavier bikes and accommodate those larger tire size Steadyrack makes a great option too. It's gonna have that ability to swing away. The only drawback to that is it's not gonna take up or not be as small and compact and clean as this design we have right now. But if you are curious about how we got this up here, stay tuned and we'll walk you through the process. Let's start off with installation. We're actually gonna grab a hook and we're gonna find a good point to mount this to. So what we want to do is probably grab a stud finder and locate that stud. We're not gonna do that today just because we do use this spot a lot for a lot of other hook on accessories and we just removed one so I already know these holes are gonna be lined up with a stud. After when you've lined everything up, you know everything's gonna be in the correct spot, we wanna grab our bike to figure out the height that this needs to sit. That process is just gonna be grabbing your bike and lifted it up to your wall. You're gonna line it up with the location where you marked out where your stud is and have everything flush against your wall. After, when you've done this, we wanna go to the lowest point where we're gonna place our hook. And since that pretty much lines up with this hole or it's pretty close, I'm just gonna use this preexisting hole. Now you probably don't have any holes in your wall, so what you'll probably wanna do is just grab a marker or a pen, mark this location so you know where you're gonna place your holes at. I'll give you more of an idea of what I'm talking about. When I place this hook up here, I'm just gonna line it up with this hole in the bottom. Since this hook is higher up, what's gonna happen is its gonna grab your bike and hold it up a little bit higher up, so it's just gonna be off the ground just by a little bit. Once you have that hole lined up, it's not a bad idea to mark out where your other holes are gonna sit. You just kind of roughly mark this. As long as you have that lined up, we can start drilling. With those holes drilled, we're gonna line everything up, make sure everything's looking good, and once it is, we're gonna start putting our screws in place. And then we'll just repeat that process for the other two screws. We're gonna test this out now. The way I like to do this is to grab the frame and grab the fork with my other hand because when we are placing it up here, this is using a door so that will wanna swing open and then we're just gonna rest it on there. I like to make sure my tires little situated, everything's looking pretty good and give you more in depth look at that door opening. You'll be able to swing away your bike now. The caveat of that though is our rear tire is gonna slide forward. So to prevent that we're gonna install the included stopper. And the way that's gonna work is we're just gonna put that right next to our rear tire on this side and we're gonna install this in the wall. This is gonna be the same process where we're gonna find our stud in the wall and it should be lined up from the top. And you're gonna pre-mark your holes, line everything up and then drill this into place. We are going throw this up here one last time to make sure everything's lined up is looking good and set it down. With it in place, I wanna check my swing feature to make sure everything's in the right spot. Lemme move my tire. There we go. And that's looking pretty good. And that was just a look at the installation and some of the features of the Feedback Sports Velo 2.0 bike wall mount. Thanks for watching.