What's the difference between bike hangars, bike lockers and bike sheds?
- 5 days ago
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Three different products, three different use cases
Bike hangars, bike lockers, and bike sheds are often used interchangeably, but they describe different products with different security levels, capacities, and practical applications. Choosing the wrong format for your context can mean investing in infrastructure that residents or staff simply will not use.
Bike lockers offer private single-user access but take up significant space per bike. Bike sheds fit more bikes but have minimal security. Fietshangar combines communal capacity with certified anti-theft security in a compact footprint.
Lockers, sheds, and hangars compared
A bike locker is a single-user unit: one person, one bike, exclusive private access. Common at transit hubs and large employers, but space-inefficient since each locker holds only one bike and takes up significant footprint per space. A bike shed is a shared enclosed structure with multiple bikes under one roof and a single shared door. More space-efficient, but security depends entirely on construction and lock quality, and most sheds carry no independent certification.
A bike hangar is a communal unit designed for street or outdoor installation, fitting four to six bikes in the footprint of one car parking space. Fietshangar combines certified anti-theft security with communal capacity. It is the only bike storage product in the market with both SKG-IKOB KE 470 certification and the Dutch Police Keurmerk, making it the highest-specification option in this category.
Find the right product
For most residential and municipal applications, a bike hangar offers the best balance of security, capacity, and footprint. View the Fietshangar 2.5 specification to see how it compares.
