In the last decade, it is reported that the number of people taking to the roads on bikes has risen by over 100%. Subsequently the need and demand for bike storage, has increased. Bike storage is an essential consideration for any cyclist. Bike theft has also increased as the number of bikes on the roads and streets in has grown, especially in inner urban city areas where bikes are virtually on every corner you turn. Bikes are not safe to leave anywhere; not your garden, driveway, porch or even padlocked to a street lamp. Without secure bikes storage, your valuable bike is not safe
To tackle this problem and encourage the continual growth of people taking to the roads on bikes, bike storage solutions have been developed and evolved. Individuals, businesses, organisations & local council boroughs have invested greatly in bike storage solutions on their properties, business places, streets and public places.
Another factor to the demand and increase in desire for bike users to have ‘suitable’ and secure bike storage, was the development and increase in bike designs and styles available to bike users. It’s not only security that is sort after or considered when one seeks bicycle storage; suitability now also plays a very important factor. The bike market now offers bikes from 10s – 10,000s of pounds for a bike, depending on how deep your pockets are and how style conscious you are. This also reflected on bike storage stockist and manufactures with regards to the variations, designs and styles of bicycle storage available to bike owners.
So it goes without saying, unless you have a very affluent and secure bike storage space on your drive way, porch, garage, garden or office car park; then you will have to bring a bike inside, your home or office, which presents a new problem in itself. Firstly bringing your bike inside your home or office presents space issues, secondly décor issues; will it fit in or be inconveniently out of place. Successively this opened another aspect for the bike storage solutionsto cater for; interior cycle storage. There are many bike storage retailers who now also provide interior bike/cycle storage solutions. These come in various designs, styles, and materials that can be custom made to uniquely accommodate your space and interior décor. Interior bike storage has developed, with space and efficiency always on top of the modern bikers list, dual function for interior bike storage has become a desirable feature. Bike storage racks such as the Bike Shelf and Bike Perch are not only contemporary designs and alternatives for bike storage solutions in your home or office; they accommodate dual function because respectively they are also pieces of furniture.