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Yea or Nay? The Parkis Automatic Vertical Bicycle Rack

Apartment-dwelling cyclists: How and where do you store your bike?

I’m a Citibike user so have never had to deal with storage. If I did, I think I’d go with an overhead bike hoist; as narrow as bicycles are, they seem to take up a disproportionate amount of floor space to me, and I’d rather get the thing completely overhead.

For those wishing to minimize their stored bicycle’s footprint, this Parkis system was invented:

What do the hardcore cyclists among you think of this system? I ask because while it looks nifty, it almost seems like it takes up more space to me. (I’m aware that that’s a perceptive issue to do with the intrusion of the handlebars at torso height.) I suspect that bike storage solutions are as specific to the user as the bikes themselves, and I’m curious to hear about the range of solutions you readers use.