Best way to store tyres?

[youngoldbloke]

I have a number of tyres not on bikes at the moment - summer tyres waiting for summer, thinner tyres replaced by fatter, but still perfectly usable. What's the best and neatest way to store them?
(All folding bead)

 

[fossyant]

Mine are hung up on a bike wall mount, behind a bike that's hung there. Lesser used ones are in the garage loft. so long as they are out of sunlight. I've some Snow Studs I get out each winter (currently fitted to my commuter) that I've had since 2010.

 

[ianrauk]

All my spares are in a cardboard box in the garage. No problems.

 

[fossyant]

I don't tend to keep road bike spares though - no need. Some perish rather quickly - looking at you Mr Michelin Pro 4's !

I've got 3 sets for the old MTB, and again 3 sets for the FS MTB bike. MTB a bit different - Ice studs for both, main use tyres and a set that I have spare.

Eg. the Full Sus - I run all year on Maxis Minions, I have Ice Spikers just for fun when it snows, and also an older set of XC Nobby Nics - they roll well, but grip on off camber and roots isn't great, they slide out. The Minions are lots slower, but they are so grippy.

Commuter has fat MTB tyres from when it wasn't used for commuting, faster rolling commuter tyres (Land Cruisers) and winter tyre - Snow Studs, as Ice on canal cobbles can be a bit lethal. Also have a set of half worn summer tyres too, but they flat too easily.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Somewhere dark and dry

 

[youngoldbloke]

Thanks all - maybe a ladder hook would work for hanging them neatly in the garage, rather than draped over the bars of various bikes

 

[Smokin Joe]

Somewhere dark and dry

Used to do that with tubs to et the rubber "Mature" which made them more puncture resistant.

 

[Blue Hills]

Somewhere dark and dry

my garage is dark and wet - is water/dampness much of a problem if the tyres are kept out of the water?

(I did until I learned my lesson store tyres in an upstairs spare bedroom that got a lot of heat - once putting a new tyre on tonset off on the Dunwich Dynamo it just exploded)

 

[Peter Salt]

I hung mine in the appliance room inside the house. No direct sunlight and heated.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

my garage is dark and wet - is water/dampness much of a problem if the tyres are kept out of the water?

(I did until I learned my lesson store tyres in an upstairs spare bedroom that got a lot of heat - once putting a new tyre on tonset off on the Dunwich Dynamo it just exploded)

High humidity prematurely ages the rubber

 

[Blue Hills]

High humidity prematurely ages the rubber

thanks - seems odd though - the water in my garage comes and goes (through the hill) so not always high humidity at all.

 

[roley poley]

Somewhere dark and dry

as above and flat because when I came back to mine which were hung on a hook it had a kink in the bead

 

[Blue Hills]

as above and flat because when I came back to mine which were hung on a hook it had a kink in the bead

seems odd - from the weight of a single tyre.