Video Transcript for Checking Out the Steadyrack Bike Storage Rack

What's up, everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we checking out the Steadyrack. This is a wall-mounted bike rack. It's going to get your bike up off the floor, your E-bike or your Mountain bike and mount it to the wall, but you can still move it to the side if you have limited garage space and pull in your vehicle. Let's check it out.

This is what it looks like on the wall without a bike on it. When you're not using it, it folds up into itself. You see, the cradles, just fold back there, they snap into place too so you don't have to worry about hitting it and having to fall out or anything. It's not going to do that. But you will pull it out like that.

You see these catches here Will catch it and hold it in the right spot. You have these tabs to make sure it doesn't ever go too far back and then loses its strength. You can keep it here. It's nice and strong, ready to add our bike. So, I'm going to go ahead and grab the bike and show you how to do that.

One thing I noticed is, we have the hooks in the studio that hold the bike up on the wall, so you kind of have to lift it by here and hold it up to get it on one of those hooks. This isn't going to be like that. This one, all you need to do is roll it up on its back tire, with it tilted up like this, I'm just going to tilt it back, get it started and you just push it into place. You don't have to lift it. It's that easy.

It just glides right on there. This version of the Steadyrack is made for your E-bikes and your Mountain bikes, so those are usually your heavier type of bikes. The bike itself is probably about 50 pounds with the battery on there. We removed the battery today but when you have something with that much weight, you don't want to have to lift it up and set it into place and that's the whole point of this. You just wheel it up to it like you saw me do. There's going to be a little bit of friction when you first put the tire in there and it's going to feel like you might have to lift it to set it in. You don't have to do that. You just push, the tire rotates, it goes right into place, stays in a place too. I can move it back and forth. You don't have to worry about it falling back out or going anywhere. You see, it's not moving. I'm moving this back and forth quite a bit and there's no movement in the bike. This cradle can handle up to 77 pounds. So, it's going to hold up for those E-bikes and Mountain bikes just fine. Another advantage this has over the regular wheel hooks is when you mount those, your bike stays in place, it's staying like this. It's up and out of the way, but you can't move it. This side rack allows you to move it, towards the wall, either way you want to. And the base, you can either put the rear tire in, but if you're worried about the spokes hitting the end of that, you actually back it out and kind of use it as a stop. Put it on the side. So, when you keep that in place, it's still not going to go anywhere. Get you a little bit more out of the way and tilt it to the side. So, if you have a smaller garage, you're going to pull your car in, you don't have to decide if you want your bike up like this, or put your car in the garage, you can just move to the side and park right next to it. I'm going to give you a couple of different measurements to think about to see if it's going to work in your garage or not. I'm going see how far it sticks out from the wall itself. I'm going to go from the base of our rack here. The rear end looks to be about 25. 25 inches from here to here is about how far it's going to stick out. But when you're not using it, you can fold it right back up, and stab into place, and now it takes up, we'll go from, this looks like it's the further point, about five inches. So, it really takes it down considerably when it's not used, giving you more room to park around it. It's really easily to install too. So, let's check out how we installed it. Before we started installing it, we need to get some measurements. And how we're going to do that is, I laid the Steadyrack down on the ground and put our back tire up against the wall. We're going to pretend that the floor is actually the wall so we can get this measurement, to see exactly where we need to mount the Steadyrack at, because when we go to put it on there, we want to be able to just to lift it up and walk it on and get it on that hook. We don't want to have to actually lift the bike up and set it in the hook or anything like that. So, that's going to get us the exact measurement we need so we know where to mount it here on the wall. So, I already got the tape measure set up. We're measuring all the way to the back of the back tire or the wall here actually, to the top of the Steadyrack. So again, picture this being on the side of the wall. It looks like it's going to be right in between 68 and a half inches. I'm going to go have the 69 inches just to get that little extra space. I think we'll be good. You can see that we've used this to install many different wall-mounted racks. All these holes in a row, tell me that this is where the stud is because it's where they've all been mounted. You at home, will want to make sure you find the studs in your wall before you started drilling. With our hole mark, we'll go ahead, and run in our first bolt. We going to follow it up by adding the one down here too. With it's screwed in at the top, we're going to just do the same thing here at the bottom. Now let's see how it works. We're going to tilt the bike back, get it started rolling, rolls right into place. I didn't have to lift the bike at all. It hits this little bump here. Then you just walk forward and the wheel will turn and go right in the cradle. I'll even show you. Easily moves side to side. It doesn't seem like it's going to roll out. It's down in that cradle. I'll try and move it a little bit. It's not going to fall out. Same thing on this side. That's something you may notice, is that back tire is moving around just a little bit. Well, that's where we got this base for that we can install to help hold that tire in place. So, let's go do that now. With the bike in place, it'll be easier to figure out where you need to put this base. I'll set the back tire in there and it looks like the good spot for it, is right there. It'll help it pivot in place and you're not going to have that tire walking around on you. So, we're gonna mark that with my pen like I did before. Now, I know that it's all installed and it's nice and sturdy and we're going to pop the caps back on the top and the bottom. You hear them snapping into place. We'll give it another test. Now, if you need a little bit more, when you go to lean against the wall, you can set this aside and kind of use the base as a stopper on the rear wheel. That also gives more room for the spokes. You can see in here, when I go to turn it, you might be worried about your spokes hitting, you can easily just use it as a stop instead. That way the spokes don't get involved. With this installed, let's check out a meeting I had with a rider earlier, going over the different types of Steadyracks. Interviewer You want to go ahead and talk to us and let us know what you think about it overall. Anything you found that works really well and anything you found that you would possibly think it might not work as wellIt was a really simple install earlier today when we did the video. A couple of screws on the top and the bottom. It's nice and secure. I'll try and move it around and see only the arms for the cradles themselves are moving. I pull it down to place very easily. I push down on it, its not moving. It does go side to side, but just don't do that. It moves side to side pretty easily. Interviewer The cradle that's holding the top wheel in place, the arms that come out, they look pretty heavy gauge metal. They look like they're pretty thick from looking at them. I don't know the exact thickness, but it looks like they're a pretty good size. Oh yeah, they definitely are. Interviewer If you had to guess on thickness, what diameter you think those areQuarter inch, maybe. Interviewer Quarter inch. Okay. Do you think that, other than it's swaying side to side, whenever you're trying to load it, did you find any other issues when trying to load the bike into that cradleNot past the initial, the fighting the habit of lifting it and then putting in the cradle. I guess because we have the hooks here. I naturally go to lift it and set a new place. You don't have to do that. You hit here. Right where you put the tire there, just a push of a little bit, then it holds right up into there. So, it's just finding that initial instinct of lifting it and setting it. Its like, "Oh, I don't have to do that." Push it on and rolls on by itself. Interviewer Right. There's just like a little tiny bit of resistance when you go do that the first time that makes you think, "Oh, this isn't going to work."Interviewer 1 Right. I guess my question would be to you, because you know we carry some of the floor mounted models where you can just roll it in with your front wheel and hold it in place and those take up a little bit more space. Do you think it would be more beneficial to use this wall-mounted version or something on the floor I guess it all depends on the person and space. But if you had to choose between the two different types, which would you lean towards knowing what you know about this oneI think if you have the space, I would go with this. I was honestly thinking about it using it in my apartment, in a small storage closet, right beside my patio. And I have a bike that's wedged sideways in there taking up the entire closet right now. I don't have any space for it in the apartment but I was trying to figure out if I had enough room for this to actually move like that, so I could move it out of the way and get to the rest of the stuff in the closet. But I think that's more helpful than having it on the ground and taking up all that space where you can't exactly move it, if it is in the way, to get to something. Interviewer 1 Right. Interviewer 2 That's a really good idea like actually by the closet. So, it's not just blocking the door. Because I was thinking something like this, if you want to keep your garage organized, maybe you have a smaller garage. Sure, it makes sense, but honestly, if I had an apartment, I don't want it on the ground taking up more space. I've seen people who've had pulley systems arranged in their apartments, it was a loft, but still, to just pull their bike up off the floor to get it out of the way. But I didn't think about that too, the apartments with the patio outside and you have that closet that whatever you put out there will get in the way, if you could pivot that out of the way of the door. I could see that being really helpful too. Interviewer 1 I think this is a great alternative because I know in our garage we have like the J style hooks in the ceilings that we've screwed into the studs. So unfortunately, I have to most of the time get up on a 10 foot ladder and then hoist the bike up over my head and get it lined up on the hooks. So, whereas this is going to be a lot more easier, a lot less detrimental to my health if I come off that ladder. So, that was what I was definitely interested in. If you feel like it's definitely worth saving the space and not dealing with a situation like that too. Interviewer 2 It could save lives. Interviewer 1 That's what I was getting at. 10 foot doesn't sound like a long fall, but on concrete, it still does hurt. With the bike on top of you probably. Interviewer 1 Yeah, an E-bike on top of you. Exactly. That's the good thing, it stays in place. I can fit it. It's not going to come out of that cradle. So, I liked that too. I was worried that it would roll right back out if I hit it the wrong way or something like that, but if you push it around, it's not falling right back or anything, out really gets into that. Interviewer 2 So AJ, you we're saying, there you guys just store them on hooks. Like all the bikes are just on hooks, is that rightMm-hmm. Interviewer 2 If you had the ability to order these in, would you replace the hooks for these or at least for the E-bikes or are you guys okay with the hooks and it's not a big dealThe hooks are probably better because they're universal. We don't exactly put the bikes back in the exact same way every time. Depends on what people are using. It might be more helpful because we have to get the specific Steadyracks for the specific bikes we have. We'd have to get the fat tire one for that one. Get the small one for the road bikes to use for that one. We don't have anything fenders on us so we don't have to get the special fender one or anything. I'd be afraid that we would set that up and people would try and put other ones in the wrong ones anyway. And then bikes would fall. Not me of course. Interviewer 2 No, everyone else. Yes. Yeah, everyone else. Interviewer 1 All right. Well, I think that wraps it up. We appreciate you guys taking the time to show usCool. Interviewer 1 If you need anything, feel free to reach out and let me know. Awesome. Appreciate it. Interviewer 1 All right guys. Go well. Interviewer 1 You too. So, all in all, I'm pretty impressed. I thought when we first we're going to go work with it, it mounts to the wall, it's just going to hold the bike up. I'm used to the hooks that we have in one of the other bays, you have to run it up there, attach the hook, and sometimes it gets in the way because it's universal. But I was impressed that this one's made specifically for E-bikes and Mountain bikes. It rolls right up there. I didn't have to lift it at all. It goes right into place and it's sturdy. I can move it a little bit here just to show you. Even if you just run into it or something, it's not going to fall out and fall onto your car or something you have in your garage. So, that gave me confidence in it that, it is fine to move it side to side. Or if somebody accidentally bumped into it, it's not going to move. You have to actually push it for it to go anywhere. So, its not going to swing back and forth or anything either. Overall, very impressed with it like I said. I think it's going to be great way to get your bike up and out of the way in your garage. I hope this helped..