Not to mention the foolishness of thinking hanging wheels will put anywhere near the stress on spokes that riding or heaven forbid, PEDALLING will. IMAGINE THE HORROR!!!

And of course ^this^.

Six miles should be far enough inland that it's not a concern. We have problems at the beach house but that's within 500 yards of the water. I think anything outside of half a mile or so is probably far enough to eliminate that effect.

My three daughters bikes have been hanging by the front wheel in my hanger since they left home, the oldest 24 years ago, the other two 19 years ago, all three stock Specialized Allez. They ride with me when their families visit and I go over them and do basic routine maintenance before re-hanging and the original wheel bearing and wheels are as new.

Many decent-quality cables these days have a thin polymer coating for low friction, so no dry lube needed to prevent rust.

OMG! And the wheels didn't assplode and the riders didn't die a fiery death??

Thanks for your comment. It took an expert such as yourself to correct my post.

VegasJen - spotted a bike for you to check out when you are in FL

Litespeed Blade

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11564096950...&segname=11021

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I prefer to store bikes similar to storage of these RC cars

recommendation / tip - for long term storage of bikes

coat of wax on the frame

a light spray of lubricant (tri-flow, wd-40, whatever) into the shifter assemblies if they are Shimano dual control / STI (‘brifters’) or Rapid Fire or similar

the factory lubricant (light grease ?) in the Shimano shifter assemblies will solidify and the shifters will not operate correctly after sitting for a couple of decades

( most times few squirts of liquid lubricant - sometimes over a day or two - will recover the operation ... sometimes liberal use of liquid lubricant is required )

Unless you are saying the bicycle specific WD-40 stuff, WD is mostly a solvent with something like a 1/4 of the spray a petroleum lubricant, OK for no harm flushing of caked up lubes in a sticky shifter but afterward I would lube with something that does not gum up over time like tri-flow as you say.

I spray the insides of my STI shifter with this: https://www.amazon.com/DuPont-Non-St...dp/B003UTX0R8/

As we know because it is easy to find and fairly common knowledge Water Displacement-40th Formula is not a lubricant it does have some lubricating elements but it is designed more as a water displacer and rust remover. It is not a good lubricant and never has been but is fine for removing old gunk from shifters or other items but not to keep them lubricated.

I would really only clean my shifters when needed. I would not do it as preventative measure unless I knew the shifters where quite old and it hadn't been done and I was using the bike with some regularity. Leave the factory lubricant alone till you need to deal with it. If they really need to be flushed then flush them but don't just do it to store it unless maybe doing some really super long term storage over periods of years but then at that point I would probably just sell the bike and buy one I wanted or if I really just loved the frame, strip the frame down and do what you need to store it long term depending on materials and sell those parts to someone who can use them.