Racor - PBH-1R, Bike Storage, Garage Pulley Lift

This bike lift appears to be of great quality and works great! Installation was not very difficult (but make sure you have a good stud finder or some other way of making sure the screws are drilled in the center of the 2X4's), and raising and lowering the bike is even easier!The pulley system helps distribute the weight in such a way that it is not as hard as you would think lifting or lowering a 40 pound mountain bike. It feels like it about cuts the weight in half.There is also a catch on the end of the pulley so that even if you let go of the rope, the bike stays where it's at rather than crashes to the ground! The catch works so well, it almost seems that the rope-tie thing mounted to the wall is redundant (but redundancy never hurt anyone right?, and plus it gets the rope out of the way).The way the catch works is somewhat like vertical blinds. If you pull straight down or towards the wall mounted rope-tie thing, it will only raise the bike and won't lower them. You have to pull the rope back the other direction away from the wall to release the catch, and then keep the rope at that angle while lowering the bike.It really works great. My wife and I bought two of them for our bikes and love them! If you're worried about whether the hood of your vehicle will fit underneath the raised bikes, measure how tall your bike is and then add about 10 inches or so to tell you how low they will hang from the ceiling (the handle bars/seat of our bikes are around 8-10 inches from the ceiling when fully raised).Overall, this lift is very well made, easy to use, saves tons of space, and is a great deal! Solid five stars!

I got two of these and both my wife and I really like the way these work for our MTB's. They make it easy to raise and lower the bikes in a very secure manner.One reviewer I read before I purchased these mentioned the "hooks" are not hooks but "L" shaped, bent metal (rubber coated) bike connection objects. He mentioned his bike fell off the lift because of this lack of "hookness".The bike connection objects I got were indeed "hooks" but they do have a pretty flat angle in the "hook". Think an 80 degree angle instead of a 90 degree as an "L" will have. We find these "hooks" to work very well and we have had zero issues with the bikes coming off the "hooks" even after many uses.My only negative comment relates to the installation instructions. They suggest you drill a pilot hole into the wooden stud using a 1/8" drill bit to guide the mounting screws.The screws they supply are MUCH bigger around than 1/8". With a power driver, these screws and the 1/8" pilot hole make it is nearly impossible to bottom the screws into the stud. They get within about 1/2" of bottoming and just stop.I almost rounded the screw heads as the driver bit was jumping out of the the screw head even when I was really bearing down on the drill to hold the driver bit in the screw head. I have to think I was putting well over 75 pounds of pressure onto the drill and the screws would not bottom.I backed the screws out and re-drilled the pilot holes using a 5/32" drill bit and this worked much better. I still got a very firm, very secure bite as the screws entered and bottomed in the wooden stud and the force required to keep the driver bit in the screw head is much more reasonable.In all other ways the instruction were straight forward and easy to follow.

This is a great bike hoist and now my garage looks so neat and tidy. I bought two of these and now I'm online to buy a third. The installation was simple and went quickly once you understand where you want it and after you understand how the pulley system works. Solid construction of the pulleys and the bike hooks.My only negative about the product, which cost one star, was that the directions weren't that great. I used the picture on the box to understand how to install it more than I did the actual printed directions. The one picture that really needed to be clear, the picture that shows where the rope goes through the stopping/control mechanism, was grainy and not easy to see. Use a higher resolution printer and all would be fine. Plus they don't explain that you need to put the pulleys at the same distance that you measured between the handle bar and back of seat. I did feel like the screws were a little short and I put an extra screw in each bracket just for safety sake. When you install the brackets parallel/inline with the joist the screws stand off from the ceiling about 1/2", then there is 3/8" of drywall (in my case), so the screw only gets in about 1/2" into the joist. People without drywall will probably not have any issue with the screw length. Screw quality was good and I had no issues like other did with stripping of screws. Use the larger phillips bit head.After I figured out the mechanism, the install and subsequent installs were a snap. My wife was able to easily raise and lower the bikes and they got her stamp of approval, which is what I needed in order to claim the project a complete success.

This “bike” lift works awesome!!! It worked so good for my bikes that I bought one for my 24’ extension ladder too. The claws fit perfect under the seat and handle bars. They firmly held the rungs of the ladder too due to the rubber coating on the claws to prevent slipping. With mounting the pulleys 8’ apart, there was still plenty of rope included to mount it to my garage 10’ ceiling. I plan on buying 2 more for my kayaks. These have freed up so much space in my garage.I bought this set as “damaged box” and was a little reluctant at first but upon receipt, all the items were in their original plastic bags and nothing was missing or used. If you’re not giving it as a gift it’s the best way to go. You’re throwing the box in the recycling anyway.

prodcuto de calidad , llega super rapido el mejor precio de otras paginas, facil de armar e instalar, a mis amigos.

Easy to fit and easy to use.

Fácil de Instalar y muy practico para aprovechar espacios, la cuerda esta lo suficientemente larga como para colocarla en techos altos.

Not very well engineered; it does the job, but I could have constructed a much better device by buying pulleys and ropes from the web and from my local builder's merchants - and for less money! I shall be replacing the rope with something more substantial - I don't trust it to hold my bike airborne for weeks at a time! £30+ is a lot to pay for this - probably worth about half that.(note added after ~6 months use): i replaced the rope wiht sashcord from my builders merchant - much betterBut the pulleys have a lot of play on their axles, and the cord sometimes gets trapped between the pully wheel and the housing. NO excuse for this - they should be better engineered.

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