Pack it away: Best motorcycle kit storage options

The most basic way of hanging your motorcycle clothing and familiar to anyone who's ever been to a car-boot sale. This clothing rail is heavy-duty, with a quoted capacity of 160kg so should be able to handle any and all motorcycle kit you hang on it.

Described as Heavy Duty, this clothing rack/wardrobe frame comes up as Amazons Choice for Motorcycle clothing storage and gets good reviews on the site. It stands 180cm tall and 120cm wide, with a capacity on the hanging bar of 30kg, which should be plenty enough for most motorcyclists.

While this coat rack is intended for less dynamic kit than our riding gear, it is still a nice solution for your day-to-day kit. The shelf is 66cm x 30cm and will house a couple of helmets or a helmet and boots while your jacket and trousers can hang underneath either on one of the hooks or on a hanger on the rail; hooks can handle 3kg and the rail, up to 10kg.

The pricing of these helmet stands is almost as confusing as the company naming concept; one is £12.99, two costs £15.29 and four, £23.99 if you have four helmets. But whatever the naming and pricing, it is a simple and elegant way to store your helmet; screw it to the wall and rest your helmet over the top.

This handy gear tidy from tool manufacturer Sealey is fairly small 49cm x 35cm - but is designed to house a single helmet on top and a pair of gloves underneath, and makes for a good kit storage option.

This wall-mounted rack is a very nice design, combining wood and metal for a look and feel that should work in many homes or garages. It is designed to accept a helmet on the top section, with a large wooden block spreading the load on the lid's interior lining so it doesn't mark or distort.

This generic bracket is designed to house a helmet and a jacket or suit and has a very small profile when not in use. It is made from a polymer-based on corn-starch so it is biodegradable and environmentally friendly and is designed to hang a helmet from the back as well as provide a handy hanging hook for keys or clothing and a hole for a coat hanger, possibly loaded with a textile suit, for example, to hang on.

So this is more the kind of thing you might install at work for you and one or two other bikers or if you want to store your kit in safety in say your garage or workshop. This large version is large its 176cm high and 115cm wide with double doors and a host of storage options, including a hanging rail and adjustable shelving.

The Biker Tidy storage system was designed by a biker, so you can imagine it works. Available as wall-mounted or this freestanding example and with a double freestanding one as well (effectively two of these back to back), it offers space to hang jackets and trousers, areas to house gloves, a shelf for a couple of helmets and room for a couple of pairs of boots as well.