Hanging your bike by the wheel

el tel

Storage space has become a bit of a pain and so I'm going to buy a couple of wall-mounted hangers soon. In theory wheel hanging is a practical solution however I have this mental block about it even though I've seen plently of shops that do it.

Any thoughts? Can it damage the wheels?

Captain Havoc

I lived in place with a bicycle shed for a year where you hang by the wheel, it was fine.

Quigs Snr

You will be fine. Think about the amount of torgue and momentum applied to a wheel in all directions in a sprint on an irish road (say a rider weight of 75kg applying 1000 watts of power and throwing the bike around, often enough to cause the wheels to flex) . Massive forces compared to the dead weight of about 7 or 8kgs on the wheel whilst hanging on the wall, which is nothing by comparisson.

Just make sure the hooks are padded so they don't scratch your rim.

LastGasp

This came up before and the concensus was that it's no problem. I've been doing it for years and hasn't had any effect as far as I can tell.

peterako

I always hang my bikes by their (two) wheels. Have been doing so for nearly 10 years.

No problems. No scratches etc.

I use cheap enough plastic coated hooks readily available from most hardware stores.

(I think I bought my hooks from Lidl )

Collumbo

Second that on the Lidl hooks... they still hold all 4 bikes in the shed and one of them is about 13kgs.

cdaly_

Third that. I have the Lidl hooks in my shed but I can't be ar*ed bringing the bike all the way through the house so it tends to stay in the hall instead.

Thinking of getting rid of the dining room table and putting hooks in there instead...

peterako

cdaly_ wrote: »

Thinking of getting rid of the dining room table and putting hooks in there instead...

How about hooks on (under) the dining room table?

You may need to remove some floor