Help: Hanging bikes on the wall by the front wheel..

… with ladder hooks

How do I get them to line up perpendicular to the wall, rather than fall parallel, thus:

Help

different hooks!

Well you need the hook at 90 degrees don’t you?
Either use a bit of 2×4 to have it at a right angle, or get “davinci” bike hooks??

DrP

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_249484_langId_-1_categoryId_242557

Why isn’t your garage covered in assorted crap like mine?

Ah, I’ll stick them on a bit of wood then!

Ta

I just went to decathlon instead and bought their 5 bike hanging unit.

what he said, need somethign that looks like this

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_categoryId_242557_productId_249484_langId_-1?cm_mmc=Shopping-_-Google%20Product%20Search-_-Bike%20Parts%20%26%20Accessories%2FBike%20Maintenance%20%26%20Tools%2FBike%20Covers%20%26%20Stands-_-Mottez%20Bike%20Storage%20Wheel%20Hook&source=shopping

I’ve got some that screw straight in, the kind you’d normally put in a ceiling. The only problem is the bike puts a lot more force on the hook than just it’s weight, after a few rawl plugs pulling out I gave up an and hooks in the ceiling at the right distance from the wall and put some wood batons on the wall to hold the wheels steady.

You need these hooks!
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Doing that will square your wheels.

Word of warning to owners of mavic wheels with the inter spoke milling don’t hang your bikes like this you can dent the rims.

What does that mean?

They are still round. And they’ve been like that for a week. I think pot holes will try and do more damage?

djglover – I have bikes that have been hung up like that for years, not weeks. I’m still waiting to hear what “squaring your wheels” means.

I think it was an attempt at humour druidh 😆

Any force applied to a given area over extended periods on alloy will break down the substrate metals causing them to gradually stretch out of round. As such the weakened metals will buckle easier if bumped in the same said patch of wheel that’s been hung.

Cool. Could you go over to the 9/11 thread and apply your engineering /material skillz there too?

🙄

Oh – it wasn’t 😳 but 😆

I’m sorry; i made it up. Tis’ all bollocks. And I’m embarrassed when i read it back. Once again I’m sorry.

…so hanging from front wheel mon-wed then back wheel thurs-sun is ok? 😉

If you hang your 26″s when and turn them by one spoke every hour then eventually they will stretch out until they are 29ers 😀
WIN!!

😆 @ Rorschach!

tbh I have never liked the idea of hanging a bike by a wheel. The point loading just seems like a bad idea.

A couple of things to check are that your brakes are definitely well bled as any air may migrate up to the caliper if higher than the lever and if you have certain rockshox forks (my U-turn dual air revs did this) lower leg oil can leak out of the U-turn mechanism if the bike is left upside down.

Front wheel up will keep your fork seals moist and working better.

given how much I use that mtb, thats probably a good thing.

I got some of these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=32171&gclid=CJ2tu5f1-bICFUJd3god_F0AHg

and put them into a wall with a 10mm rawl plug. I set them at a height so the back wheel is on the ground to take some of the weight

seems fine to me

druidh – Member
Front wheel up will keep your fork seals moist and working better.

It will indeed. I think it was TFT (I could be mistaken) who told me to put the bike upside down once in a while to keep the wipers/foam rings lubed up.

or they will leak from the lock-out and piss oil all over your shed floor.

Baznav – is that correct re mavins? Just got myself a nice pair and still deciding how to store but hooks in ceiling joist and hang front wheel was my preferred route.. Until I say yr note

So what other options to store multiple bikes. Mine have cable under top tube so can’t even use TT as a support.

I’ve got Mavic Ksyriums with contoured rims, but that’s on a road bike that weighs naffs all. I have to say, I’ve never heard of that issue before though.

tbh I have never liked the idea of hanging a bike by a wheel. The point loading just seems like a bad idea.

What about the point loading of standing a bike on its wheels – that’s only pressing on one part of the wheel. Then to make it worse you put a person on it and go hit some rocks 🙂

I think sitting on the bike while hung, will cause damage. 😉

Going back to the OP, could you not just rotate the hooks you have by 90deg?

OP, it is direction your hooks are at, but you knew that.

Its all a compromise to be honest the way you have them takes up more wall but less internal space, having them hanging into the garage takes up less wall but a lot more space.

All depends on your own layout as to whats best.

I have just bought one of those Aldi stands, its great, much less agro than getting the bikes onto the hooks I used before.

I’ve been doing it for ten years now and it’s never caused me any problems