An assembly for storing bicycles in an upright orientation and suitably with both wheels of the bicycles off the ground. The assembly is configured to suspend the bicycles from their front wheel by engaging the front tire of the bicycles, and without needing to engage the rim of the front wheel, or
An assembly for storing bicycles in an upright orientation and suitably with both wheels of the bicycles off the ground. The assembly is configured to suspend the bicycles from their front wheel by engaging the front tire of the bicycles, and without needing to engage the rim of the front wheel, or the frame of the bicycle. Moreover, the assembly is adapted to allow the bicycles located in the upright orientation to be moved while on the assembly from side-to-side to allow bicycles storage to be clustered together and a bicycle to be retrieve-from storage to be spaced further apart from adjacent bicycles.
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1. An assembly for storing bicycles in an upright orientation in which the bicycles have an upper wheel and a lower wheel, the assembly including: a plurality of support frames, each having at least one supporting member arranged to support the weight of a bicycle by being configured to engage the t
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An assembly for storing bicycles in an upright orientation in which the bicycles have an upper wheel and a lower wheel, the assembly including: a plurality of support frames, each having at least one supporting member arranged to support the weight of a bicycle by being configured to engage the tyre of an upper wheel of the bicycle located in an upright orientation; andat least one rail on which the support frames are mounted so that the support frames can move along the at least one rail, wherein the assembly is adapted so that the bicycles able to be engaged by the support frames are supported in an elevated position above the ground to allow the support frames and bicycles supported thereon to move along the at least one rail,wherein each support frame includes two supporting members, including a U-shaped forward supporting member and a U-shaped rearward supporting member, and the forward supporting member has a tyre engaging surface that faces rearwardly and the rearward supporting member has a tyre engaging surface that faces forwardly, wherein each support frame also include a pair of barrier members that are interconnected by the supporting members, and wherein the barrier members have a lower section and a higher section, and the forward supporting member is connected to the lower section and the rearward supporting member is connected to the higher section, and the higher section is angled to extend upwardly from the lower section, and arms of the rearward supporting member are longer that the arms of the forward supporting member, yet the tyre engaging surface of the rearward supporting member is higher than the tyre engaging surface of the forward supporting member. 2. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein each support frame is unconnected to the support frame adjacently located on the at least one rail. 3. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the support frames are mounted to the at least one rail by one or more carriages having wheels that run along the at least one rail. 4. The assembly according to claim 3, wherein the assembly includes two rails, including an upper rail and a lower rail and the carriages engage the upper and lower rails to locate the support frames in an operative upright orientation. 5. The assembly according to claim 4, wherein each rail has forwardly and rearwardly facing surfaces and the support frames engage the forwardly and rearwardly facing surfaces to lock the support frames in a forward and aft direction on the rails. 6. The assembly according to claim 4, wherein each rail has a square cross-section or a rounded cross-section on which the support frames are mounted. 7. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the upper wheel is a front wheel of the bicycle, and the forward and rearward supporting members are configured to engage spaced portions about the circumference of the tyre of the upper wheel. 8. The assembly according to claim 1, whereby when in use, the tyre of the upper wheel can be received between the arms of the forward supporting member and the reardward supporting member and a base of the supporting members between the arms can be the tyre engaging surface. 9. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the pairs of barrier members and the supporting members interconnecting the barrier members define an upwardly oriented opening that is configured to receive the upper wheel of the bicycle. 10. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the support frames include a stabiliser formation for receiving the lower wheel of the bicycle located in an upright storage orientation on each respective support frame. 11. The assembly according to claim 10, wherein the support frames also include a mast to which the barrier members and the stabiliser formation are attached. 12. The assembly according to claim 10, wherein the stabilizer formation has a rear wall for engaging the tyre of the lower wheel, and oppositely disposed side walls extending from the rear wall, and rear wall is arranged in an upright orientation. 13. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the assembly includes posts adapted for being anchored to the ground, and the at least one rail is mounted to the posts. 14. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the support frames include a spacing member and the spacing members are sized to abut or engage when the distance between upright axes of the support frames is in a range from 200 to 450 mm. 15. The assembly according to claim 14, wherein the support frames are mounted to the at least one rail by one or more carriages having wheels that run along the at least one rail, and wherein the spacing member is the carriage. 16. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the support frames are arranged at different heights such that bicycles that can be received by the support frames can be located at different heights to reduce clashing or contact between bicycles on the support frames that are adjacent. 17. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein adjacent support frames are located at different heights. 18. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the at least plurality of support frames and the rail are arranged to allow the at least plurality of the support frames to be move freely sideways while the bicycles are supported in the elevated position to allow a user to adjust the spacing between the bicycles by moving the support frames relative to each other.
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