My thanks to other positive Amazon reviews that tipped me off to this item. We have two bikes, and I had them on an expensive Topeak vertical bike rack -- one of those floor-to-ceiling pole designs. It was a disaster. It once came loose from the ceiling in high heat and dumped a bike onto the hood of my car. Beyond that, the cradles were very tricky to tighten in that if they were just a little too loose, the bikes would slooowly slide to the bottom of the pole. But if you tightened them just a smidge too far, the mechanism would strip and pop loose completely. I once spent 45 minutes trying to get them set correctly while they kept sliding down or popping loose. I had straps all over the bikes and hooked to the wall out of fear of another collapse.Now, with a new car in the garage, I didn't want a repeat of the tumbling bikes situation, but needed to go vertical again because I just don't have that many options in our smallish, densely packed (but neatly, I swear) garage. This rack did the trick.First off, this is good-looking piece. I got the plain aluminum and it's just gorgeous. It would do justice to the interior of anyone's house if you wanted to keep it inside. Besides the brushed aluminum pole, the other bits are heavily powder-coated, so they're slick and should stay beautiful and corrosion free. It's solid as a rock, with no wobble I can detect with the two vertical pieces screwed together.Assembly only requires a few moves, but it's a bit tricky. There is some fiddling and holding of several pieces at once while you tighten down the leg assembly on the bottom pole section, and the instructions fail to note that there is an "up" (with tiny holes to attach the top piece and a "down." Had to do it twice. But once assembled the whole piece is mechanically solid and smartly built -- a thick top plate fastens to a matching plate on the bottom with the legs arranged in between with molded nubs locking them into position. One leg faces straight forward, so it's extremely strong and stable. It feels like an industrial / commercial grade piece of equipment, and I have no fear whatsoever it will tip over.With the legs attached and the pole assembled, the arms slide into a track with small metal backing plates and tighten down with two short Allen-head screws each. That's a little fussy too, because one you have them slotted in, if you back out a screw too far in adjusting things, the back plates move around and you often have slide the whole arm up and out and re-insert it. It took a while to get the bikes where I wanted them (one has an unusual slanted top tube). But again, it's a solid, dead-simple system. The backing plates are solid powder-coated metal, and the track is built into the aluminum poles. It feels like nothing's going anywhere once you tighten things down. And because the arms move up and down independently, you can deal with an unusual top tube to get the balance right.Now that it's up, I don't know why I suffered with the inferior floor-to-ceiling friction pole thing for so long. The Velo unit just exudes quality and doesn't cost any more.Five stars for solving an annoying, potentially dangerous problem in my garage.