Hi, this is Jurgen. 2014, I launched with the help of Kickstarter: DaHanger, a bike
storage rack for the modern design. During my campaign, I got a ton of
feedback and questions from you guys, and some of them, I do remember like they
were yesterday. Hey check out our Kickstarter.... Awesome! How many bikes does it hold?
One bike?
That's it? Really? I have six bikes. I have eight bikes. I have five bikes. Fat bike.
Road bike. Single speed. Mountain bike. Track bike. Cyclo-Cross bike. I need to fit
more bikes on the wall. I need to fit more bikes on the wall. I need to fit
more bikes on the wall. Okay, back to the drawing board. You guys gave me a
pretty long wish list during our first campaign. After eliminating the
outliers, I needed to find the answer to the most important question: "how to hang
more bikes on the wall"? The answer.....meet Dan. Why is Dan better for multiple bikes?
Well, there are a couple of ways to hang bikes on walls: front wheel hooks, they're
hard to use, and takes up a lot of floor space by hanging bikes perpendicular to
the wall; horizontal brackets or shelves, they're easy to use, but take up a lot of
wall space, which can be limited to the amount of bikes on the wall. And then
there's Dan: Dan has extra long legs, which positions
the bikes in an angle, that allows for staggered installation, this will give
you extra wall space for more bikes without taking up any additional floor space.
After numerous prototypes, I figured out the right size, angles, and gaps
that fit all the bikes and pedals that I could find; the large
wheel shelves are there to protect the wall from being scuffed and add extra support.
Dan has been an absolute pleasure to hang out with, he has been displaying old
classics for us and cleaned up the floor space all around the house, he is for sure a
a cyclist best friend. I think it's important how we live and the things we
surround ourselves that bring us joy and happiness. Our manufacturers ready to go
and the money from Kickstarter will be used for a first production run, and to
be honest, I've been hanging out a long time with this little dude now, maybe too
much time, but he's pretty awesome. Cut!
This is Clug. Clug is a wonderfully small and easy to install clip that gives your
bike a hug, and helps keep things tidy around your home; it's the same size and
half the weight of a kiwi fruit. It's name sounds like a drain cleaner, but it
isn't, and as you'll see from this demo, it's much easier to install than windows
95, and it will turn virtually anywhere you can think of into somewhere your
bike can live. We faced a problem here at Hurdler Studios, every day, we'd come in
to work with our bikes, but we had no good place to store them when we got
here; with problem in hand, we set out designing the details to get a shape
that feels effortless to Clug your bike into place. We've gone through a pile of
iterations, tested to the point of breaking, and kept designing until we got
everything just right; Clug currently fits standard road bike tires, but we
have other variations on the drawing board. We're here on Kickstarter to help
raise the funds we need to purchase the steel tooling and materials which allows
us to crank out Clug by the thousands. Because 3D printing is the future,
we're bridging the gap between the campaign and delivery of the production version
of Clug by offering the first 200 supporters a free 3D printed Clug as
soon as we're successfully funded; with a pledge of five dollars or more,
you'll get the digital 3D files to print your very own Clug at home. We hope you
like Clug as much as we have enjoyed designing it and getting it to this
point. We want to thank you in advance for your support and we look forward to
getting a Clug into your hands as soon as possible. Thank You!
Our primary motive for designing Steady-Rack was we wanted to find a solution
for bike storage, that was easy to use, save lots of space, and anyone in the
family could use the rack. We thought why stop there, let's actually add some other
features and benefits to the rack that make it a total storage solution. One of
the major problems with storing bikes is the amount of space conventional storage
systems take up; here's a good example: a conventional storage hook with a single
bike on it, and three Steady-Rack's with three bikes on them, all in the same
amount of wall space; we've mounted a conventional hook and you can get a
multitude of these types of hooks that are available on the market today,
alongside our Steady-Rack's, and we spaced them equal distant; if I wanted to remove
this bike, with a conventional hook system, that would be impossible without
taking every bike out of every rack, but because of the Steady-Rack's unique
patented swivel action, all I have to do is push the bikes adjacent slightly away
from the one I want to remove, clear the handlebars, and then we just move it
out of the way. You've been out for a bike ride, you've come home, and there's a
car in the garage right where your bike racks are, now with Steady-Rack, there's no
need to move the car, all you do is wheel your bike up on the back wheel, bring it
in, and you can load and unload the Steady-Rack at any angle, it doesn't have
to be at right angles to the wall, engage the rack and drop it up in, and if I want
to take a bike out now, I don't need to move the car, just simply push this bike
out of the way, pull this bike out a little using the pivot action, and I just
gently and easily unload it. One of the features of the Steady-Rack is that the
bike sits snugly in the rack and there's no metal to metal contact at all.
Another feature of the Steady-Rack design and the pivot is that it's a safer rack,
because if you accidentally walk into the rack, it'll bump the bike away.
The rack is designed to collapse, so when you're using it you pull it down, when you're
finished with it you can simply fold it up. As well as all the practical
and functional features of the Steady-Rack, one of the things we noticed with
the conventional hooks is that they don't look that attractive, so we set about to
make Steady-Rack, not only practical and functional, but a great-looking rack.
Included in your Steady-Rack kit is a plastic rest, the rest is designed
so that when you're parking your bike and pivoting it, all you do is place the
rear wheel either side of the rest and pivot it to the side, what this does is
it effectively keeps the bike in a vertical alignment and allows you to
overlap your bikes and there's no risk of the bike swinging around and
contacting each other.