Hanging bikes up by the front wheel

[uphillstruggler]

I presume he means that if hanging by the front wheel, the forks carry the load. If hanging by the back wheel there is a triangular section of the frame to spread the load a bit.

exactly

 

[mickle]

I know what you mean. I was just sayin'; ""

 

[Davidc]

This is very silly - I always used to hang mine up by the front wheel, but the back wheel would have been much easier. I just never thought of it!

 

[mickle]

It's easier by the front wheel shirley? Just wheel the bike up the wall....

 

[Davidc]

It's easier by the front wheel shirley? Just wheel the bike up the wall....

Doesn't work unless the bikes are by the wall - mine were out from it.

 

[MacB]

This has got me thinking, all our bikes hang by front wheels out from the wall so no rear wheel support at all. It's very easy to put them up just a case of raising bike onto backwheel and then use bars, and knee on back of saddle, to lift onto hook.

Am I seriously running any dangers re the forks? these are all steel or alu by the way, I may hang the new carbon forked beastie the other way.

 

[Smokin Joe]

This has got me thinking, all our bikes hang by front wheels out from the wall so no rear wheel support at all. It's very easy to put them up just a case of raising bike onto backwheel and then use bars, and knee on back of saddle, to lift onto hook.

Am I seriously running any dangers re the forks? these are all steel or alu by the way, I may hang the new carbon forked beastie the other way.

My reason for hanging from the rear wheel is less strain on the forks and headset, the rear triangle is a sturdier bit of kit with no bearings under stress.

Now, I would not claim for a minute that the amount of stress on the front end is anywhere close to the limits of what it can take (because I just don't know and I've never heard of anyone with problems this caused), but form an engineering point of view the rear triangle can withstand more load.

 

[Howard]

Am I seriously running any dangers re the forks? these are all steel or alu by the way, I may hang the new carbon forked beastie the other way.

I'd be surprised. Weight of bike hanging off fork: 10kgish. Weight of person sitting on bike: 70kgish + (yeah ok some distribution going on there)

But if you have a carbon steerer I'd probably not tell the manufacturer should it snap and you seek compensation

 

[MacB]

Ah, no carbon steerers, but I am musing over the strain on the headset here, I think I may experiment on the hub gear one the other way up. It weighs more like 16kg and that is a lot on a longterm basis. I might move the hanging points so that the rear wheel touches wall, depends how I get on, physically, with hanging the other way up.