Storing or Keeping Spare Wheels
 

I have noticed on the road forum that many people have multiple sets of wheels. Do you find it is easiest to store the nicest ones mounted to the bike or say if they are your race wheels, keep them stored in a safe place? What's your storage solution, I am starting to build a collection as I have 3 sets of unmounted wheels (Stock wheels, and newest set).

I was considering just buying a second set of tires/tubes in my favorite pair to keep mounted on the SL Races to keep them nice for events, large rides and hopefully some racing this year. Also, I feel like the wheel is safer if a tire is mounted to it, even if it is not mounted to the bike at the moment.

Any thoughts?

I drilled some holes into a ceiling beam in my garage and bought several 2 foot bungee cords with rubber coated hooks on the ends. I run the bungees through the wheel and hang the hooks into the ceiling beam. It keeps them off the concrete floor which is probably safer for the wheel.

Strung up like a clothes line or a bear bag? Any pictures of the setup?

Mine are just leaning up in odd corners of the house.

I do my best to keep spare wheels tired and aired up, ready to go, just out of convenience, not rim protection.

No real wheel safety issue I can think of if you hang 'em on hooks. Maybe carbon might be more prone to chipping if you've got 'em unshod on a concrete floor in the garage.

This is what I am trying to cure. ;)

I hang mine on the protruding extra length of track for the garage door.

I deflate the tires on my 7850-C50's and and stow them in the bags Shimano provided with them.

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they are find stored without tires and tubes on them, they mostly come from the factory that way and stay in the lbs like that till purchased. a tire and tube may protect from a ding here or there. I just stick mine in the closet. they are just fine there.

A little bit of both, I guess. I have 5 pairs of extra wheels. Each pair has it's own bungee and there's about a 2.5 foot distance between each bungee. I don't have any pictures of my setup right now.

Well, for my race wheels I deflate the tires, slip them in my nice padded DT Swiss wheelbags and put in a little nook of the garage where I won't keep knocking them over repeatedly.

Here are some of mine, I pretty much just put them where ever I can that they don't get in the way.

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Two people I know who have a large collection of wheel sets get those rubber coated hooks from Lowes and screw them into the ceiling and then hang the wheels from them. Seems to work well and keeps them out of the way.

Nice, a man after my own heart.

Mine are in their original shipping box. U can ask your LBS for boxes too!

I was thinking of this. Putting them back int eh shipping box. But I figured they would take up way less room hanging somewhere. I like the rubber hook idea and possibly a beam to beam couple of loops as suggested with the bungees.

does this mean i should feel ok about having three sets of wheels (with tubes/tires/cassette) for two bikes?

I would have to say yes. I may not be the best person to answer though since I'm not even sure how many road wheelsets I currently have. :o

This.

Cheap, secure, and out of the way.

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Garage side. Various wheels and bikes. Hooks are cheap ones, just screw into the wood. I put a 2x4 across because I wanted control over how far apart the hooks would go and I also didn't want to crack any wood holding the house together.

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Hallway to bike room in basement. Black thing at top of picture is corner of bike bag.

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Off of the handrail next to the steps up to the house (inside the garage). These hooks are much thicker and require a drilled hole to prevent cracking the wood.

No pic of bike room or the shop area because it's such a mess. Suffice it to say that I have wheels and tires there. All my good tires are in the shop area.

I prefer to hang wheels. I prefer to have a tire on them, but sometimes that's not possible. Just one careless drop and you can ruin the rim. It's like a helmet - you don't plan on hurling yourself headfirst into the pavement but you need to be prepared in case it happens. My good wheels, when lacking tires, hang from hooks.

cdr

Much appreciated cdr, I like the spacing utilized with the 2x4 addition. You certainly make me feel better about only having a couple extra sets. I actually completely forgot that they make special bags for wheels. I am sure I can even find a bag to put them in. Keep up the collection, you know this will come up again in a year or so.

that beat up s-works m2 makes me sad. regardless, nice collection.

I hang my wheels from hooks on the garage ceiling. And stack them up between some motorcycles, and leave some in random corners of the garage. The really old ones go in the garage attic.

So nobody recycles their wheels? Like sells them off, scrap the metal, or anything like that. I guess we have all just gotten so god at storing them all? This thread is an easy sell to the girlfriend as I look like I barely even have any spare parts next to some of you guys. ;) Appreciate all the help.

+1 They even have some square hooks with a wide enough flat section that they will hold a pair each. When my whole family was into riding and racing (4 road bikes, 4 mountain bikes, and 2 track bikes, most of them with 2 sets of wheels) this kept it very uniform, with a pair of wheels hung in between each bike as everything lined one wall of the garage.

As for which set to keep on the bike, I kept the set I used the most. So, my "race only" wheels were usually hung up by themselves while the bikes had the training sets on.