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Millions of bikes for over a hundred years have been stored by one wheel in homes and bike shops around the world, without anything more then a cosmetic mark left on the rim from the hook's contact. This is the usual first method in at home storage that I suggest to customers.
But with the advent of carbon skinned deep section rims some say that the carbon airfoil skin can be damaged by hook hanging. Again this is with a rim design where there's a thin shaped skin of carbon producing an airfoil shape to the rim. The spokes travel through this aero skin to the actual structural rim hidden inside the skin.
BTW I have watched a coworker ride a bike while it was hanging by it's front wheel. He needed a hand in getting in the pedals but once there pedaled away for a few minutes. No wheel/rim damage or human injury. Andy