Ever since I got my Trek 1500 at Christmas, I've been looking for a bike rack that supports more than two bikes and can handle a lot of biking-related gear as well. Until then, Kathleen and I were a two-bike family: I rode a rock-solid Marin Bear Valley SE that probably had 25,000 miles on it, and she has a late model Trek mountain bike that was also a great investment.

We still have these bikes and all of the gear that goes with them. Now I'm adding appropriate road biking accessories, and there's a lot of gear spread out in the garage and the basement.

The bike rack I have my eye on is the Delta Cezanne Bike Gear Rack. It's a free-standing rack that can hold as many as six bikes, but more realistically would hold four. This would leave the center free for equipment stored in the baskets and jerseys and clothing hung from the center.

The reason I would strongly consider putting the Delta Cezanne Bike Gear Rack in the basement is because it could be used for clothes storage. I don't like to run my biking jerseys and shorts through the dryer. It would be easy for me to take them out of the washer and hang them on hangers from the center of the rack. This would also mean that I could store all of the bikes near the work bench in the basement, which is also the most logical place to locate my repair stand.

An arrangement like this would improve the organization of the garage and the basement, giving me more room to store other things and one less excuse to ask my wife, "Where did I leave my Polar Wearlink transmitter last night?"

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