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 On: 2007-07-08
Looks as promised and seems to function fairly well once completed - tough to get two adult sized bikes on it though... Poorly engineered as the screw depths for the base were too shallow and had to force the screws in with the supplied allen wrench - 1 screw stripped and one broke...
On: 2007-05-06
It does what it claims - looks attractive and stores two bikes off the floor. I use mine to keep 2 road bikes in a carpeted 2nd-home Condo that has no garage or outside-storage shed. But I have my doubts. It doesnt seem sturdy enough to last for long, over-tightening some of the fittings could easily break it and assembly, while not OVERLY complicated, wasnt all that easy. Also, they shipped the wrong model; I wanted the floor-to-ceiling version but received the free-standing one. Im sure they would have exchanged it at no cost, but it would likely have taken a week or two and the one they sent looked okay, so I decided to keep it.
 On: 2007-04-12
Bought this from The Rack Warehouse via Amazon and it was back-ordered for 6 weeks. When it finally got here, it was missing a screw. In spite of this, assembly was pretty easy. It has a wide, four leg base which keeps it reasonably stable. If you walk into one of the bikes, it shakes quite a bit, but doesnt fall over, or drop bikes on you. The four feet are threaded for height adjustment on uneven floors, and are made of a hard rubber so they dont scratch our wood floors when we slide it around with the bikes still loaded. The free-standing rack is much easier to move than the kind you have to tether to the floor and ceiling.
The oak looks really nice. Its as if our bikes are on display. Weve got three bikes on it most of the time, and are quite happy with the performance. You can adjust each arm independently to set it for a level top tube (road) frame, or a sloping (MTB) frame. The bars are coated with a thick rubbery material and do not damage the bike. The drawback to this system is that if the cables on your road bike run under the top tube, they will be pinched against the bike the whole time it is stored. I have some bumpers on my cables that I keep on either side of the rack arms to prevent it from smashing the cable against the frame.
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