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Originally Posted by
jowilson
Say your storing your bike for the winter and you won't be able to ride for a few months. If you don't want your tubes to stretch because of the high pressures, should you let all the air out or will it be fine? Also, should you put the gears into small (front) and small (rear) to relieve cable tension and prevent cable stretch? Should you just loosen the front and rear derailleur cable nuts? Or just leave it in which ever gear you have it in?
Josh
Yes.
The only thing I would do is "unweight" the tires if there was no air in them.
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