The HMB Journal

Carbon frames make people nervous about storage in a way steel never did. The truth is more useful than the myth: carbon is extraordinarily strong, just in specific ways. Here's how to hang one so it's safer on the wall than leaning in the hall.

In a small flat, the floor is the one thing you can't spare — so the bike has to go up. An honest run through the realistic storage options, what each does well, and which actually looks like you meant it.

Winter means one of two things: your best bike hibernates, or you move indoors and the rear wheel comes off. Either way, here's how to store a bike, wheel or full wheelset so it comes back in spring ready to ride — not needing a workshop session first.

An e-bike is too heavy to lean in the hallway, too valuable to leave on the pavement, and too full of lithium to charge carelessly. Here's how to store one properly in a flat — from where it lives to getting it safely on the wall.

Most wall mounts assume a bike with a dead-level top tube — a frame almost nobody rides any more. That's why your compact road bike or e-bike hangs at an angle, looking like it's halfway off the wall. Here's what's really going on, and how to get any bike sitting perfectly level.