Customer pictures showing the BikeStow in their vans
PRESS RELEASE: BikeStowBike rack for van & home
The serious rack for serious riders
Bungees, rags and scratches may sound like a familiar story to you when loading bikes into vans. It was for our family. However, having to frequently load four muddy bikes after a long days riding into the family van, we got fed up and aimed to create a solution.
After three years of testing, tuning and development, the BikeStow is the result. It's a quick, easy & simple system for holding multiple bikes, of different disciplines, securely in the van, home or elsewhere. The patent-pending design features brushed aluminium 'v' sliders and a locking thumb screw, so all common wheel sizes are held firmly and rigidly. No scratches, no damage - even for multiple bikes. When not in use, the cross supporting 'dog bone' lifts up and the BikeStow folds flat, with magnetic catches keeping it neatly closed.
We took a prototype to the 2018 Cycle Show at the NEC, Birmingham. Having received such an overwhelmingly positive response, we are now producing the BikeStow in small batches - ensuring we keep the high quality, well engineered and hand crafted feel that was loved so much at the show.
Patent Pending - Registered Design
We've kept everything local in terms of manufacturing. The main structure is CNC routed from furniture grade birch plywood in Belbroughton, UK to ±0.25mm, and the aluminium parts are laser cut in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, UK, to ±0.1mm. We finish and assemble each BikeStow by hand in small, limited batches.
| Incredibly well made and easy to use cycle transport system catering for all wheel sizes and widths with the exception of fatbikes.—eMTB Forums |
| Has to be one of the best new products of 2018.—White Mountain Biking |
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Patent Pending - Registered Design
The BikeStow is currently only available in the UK via our website
www.bikestow.com or from our
dealersAbout the Family
BikeStow endured a three-year long birth, fathered by Simon Laight. Initially, it was meant only as a solution to our problem of having too many bikes and not having a safe, easy and reliable way of transporting and storing them. Following encouragement from friends, we bit the bullet and booked a stand at the 2018 Cycle Show to see if our idea could go somewhere. In the six weeks between booking the stand and the show itself, we had to turn a DIY garage project into an actual product. This is when the family team truly formed.
MENTIONS: @BikeStow
But all features included, this is pretty nifty, certainly well thought out and I would burn so much time replicating this if I wanted all the features, that I would be a huge a****** to pretend it would be worth it to make myself.