So I am looking to start hanging my bikes in my apartment, as I am sick of having them just rest up against various walls. I believe hanging them from a wheel is most condusive to my situation, though I have concerns for whether or not this is good for my rims. Your thoughts?

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so long as it is lined with rubber or somthing you should be fine

yeah theres four bikes hanging by there wheels in my apartment, its how I have always stored them, and none of them have ever had rims warped because of that, also the bike shop I used to work at hung all the stock bikes(that wernt out on the sales floor) on hooks, and you dont need fancy bike hooks, go to home depot and get 75 cent hooks they work just as well

Every individual spoke is under more tension than the weight of your bike is putting on any point on the rim, hanging is totally fine.

Yeah all i did was get a 2x6 the length of my wall and put the hooks a foot apart and bolt it to some studs and now i can have 8 bikes on my wall...i think it was a total of $22 including some white paint so the wood could match the wall.

This thread may be of interest to you. I posted some pics further down.

It doesn't hurt your wheels at all.....

Your rims will undergo more stress by actually riding the bike.

we hang nearly every bike at our shop like that. the amount of force put on the wheel is minimal and evenly distributed throughout the wheel. as said previously, you put far more stress on it by simply riding it.

on the other hand, clamping your bike in a stand around the top tube (the poor cervelo in the above photo!) can crush it. clamp it around the seatpost! it makes me cry to see a bike put at such an unnecessary risk!

Bah thats just one of his rooms. You should see where he keeps his nice bikes..

Thanks for the input folks.

there are bike shops in NYC that are not as well stocked as that stable.

You have to turn the wheel by which the bike hangs every day in order to keep a bump from forming. If you go on vacation, put the bikes on the floor or have a neighbor come over and turn the the wheels for you.

A guy in a van told me this.

Are you serious? What a bunch of hooie..... can I say hooie on this board?

as long as you say it often!

This would be true if he were using one of those pinch mechanism Park clamps, but that looks like an Ultimate Support stand, which ratchets in to place and *hopefully* he's only got it resting in there and not fully clamped.

Let me be very very clear.... this is not my basement, but a basement of a friend. (I refer to it as the "Holy Grail" of cycling...) He is very careful of all his bikes and yes, he only uses ultimate stands.

You might also want to look into the rubbermaid Fasttrack system. It will cost you a bit more, but I like the idea that I can slide the hooks to accommodate different handlebar widths.

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HOW MANY FREAKIN HELMETS DO YOU HAVE MAN!?

I built this rack using $30 worth of 2x4s, fence brackets and hardware. It took about 2 hours. It's totally freestanding and was built to fit the space available. I post race numbers on it to decorate.



The vertical posts go all the way to the floor and the other support boards are sandwiched around it.



The top cross bar is a T shape. I wouldn't want to jump up and down on it, but it holds 70 lbs of bikes just fine.

where i work has a bike room with a bunch of hooks like in that third pic. I try to hang them so they aren't right on the spoke (like in the pic) but otherwise I think they are fine.

::sigh:: typical example of more money than sense. Helmets expire, there's no sense stockpiling them.

My LBS has an old seatpost they use for just this reason.