Originally Posted by Herbert
If you think about how much stress your CF fork endures when you are actually on the bike, that makes the little 18 pound or so stress while hanging seem like nothing. So you will be fine with your bike being stored hanging by the front wheel.
If you have deep section carbon rims though, I'd recommend a different type of storage.
]Cheers,
Herbert
Yes but those forces are in directions that the designers accounted for. A force in a direction that the part wasn't designed to handle...no matter how small...could be an issue. I have seen a Fizik Aliente with snapped CF rails that proves this perfectly. Rails snapped right off because the bike (17.5 lbs) was hung by the nose of the saddle a force you probably wouldn't design a saddle to see.
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