Hanging bikes

[hozn]

I hang my bikes that way. No worries about the rim; I think normal use is far more traumatic. Do be careful about wedding the valve stem, though. That could be damaging.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Thanks.

[hozn]

@hozn 52638 wrote:

I hang my bikes that way. No worries about the rim; I think normal use is far more traumatic. Do be careful about wedding the valve stem, though. That could be damaging.

That was supposed to say “wedging” – probably the phone would have proffered “pinching”.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@hozn 52641 wrote:

That was supposed to say “wedging” – probably the phone would have proffered “pinching”.

I figured. Any preference on front wheel or back wheel on the hook?

[dbb]

I hang my bikes from the front wheel. The center of gravity seems to make it a bit easier that way.

[hozn]

Yes, I also hang from the front wheel, mainly due to ease of lifting them up and of dropping them onto their rear wheel for wheeling them out [of my shed].

[hozn]

Also, I stagger the height of the hooks to maximize the horizontal space needed. It’s either that or one fewer bike … (shudder)

[consularrider]

@hozn 52649 wrote:

Also, I stagger the height of the hooks to maximize the horizontal space needed. It’s either that or one fewer bike … (shudder)

Since my hooks are on a cross beam and closer together to have room for four, I alternate between front wheel and back wheel. Someone once commented to me that it’s better for the headset to hand the bike from the rear wheel. I don’t know if there is anything too this.

[hozn]

Ooh, that would work too!

Yeah, I don’t have enough data to comment on the headset, but no issues in past few years. I would imagine doing things like fork-mount roof racks would be much worse for headsets, but that advice may also be unfounded.

[dasgeh]

@hozn 52649 wrote:

Also, I stagger the height of the hooks to maximize the horizontal space needed. It’s either that or one fewer bike … (shudder)

Do you do anything special to get your WeeHoo to stand up, or is it just wedged in there?

[hozn]

Yeah, it is just wedged in there; the wheel is against the wall and the bar resting against my mtb handlebar grip. It works quite well, though I hardly ever ride that bike that it is leaning against (really struggle to justify a full-suspension mtb here; that will be the one to go when the kid/s get bigger and need more bike room).

[culimerc]

I hang ours like Consularrider does. Flip/flopped back to front so that I can get more in a tighter space. I’ve been doing that for a number of years now and even the bikes that see significantly less use show no sign of out-of-round wheels.

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