Best way to hang bike

[patches]

Who needs a bike room when you have a mobile bike vault...

 

 

 

Sorted!

[MTBc]

That's a lot of little bikes. You catholic?

 

TV broke. :-/

[Jigghead]

 

TV broke. :-/

 

Ah, that'll do it.

 

 

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[Grebel]

Who needs a bike room when you have a mobile bike vault...

 

 

 

Sorted!

 

Where do the little kids sit after you've given them the sweets...?

[patches]

Where do the little kids sit after you've given them the sweets...?

 

On the bikes!

 

I use muddy Shimano cleats in stead of duct tape or rope

Edited August 1, 2013 by patches

[Pure Savage]

To the OP, your original question WRT the loft. I have the same thing and but a bolt into ceiling beam and then made a noose hang from there and hunf my bike from the saddle in the loop. Was able to hang it horizontal that way. There is a photo on the other thread like this one

[Ecko_1]

To the OP, your original question WRT the loft. I have the same thing and but a bolt into ceiling beam and then made a noose hang from there and hunf my bike from the saddle in the loop. Was able to hang it horizontal that way. There is a photo on the other thread like this one

I get what you are saying. Unfortunately, although my ceiling is extremely high, the ceiling is a concrete slab so nothing is going in the ceiling. The hooks in the wooden loft works for me. We are renting so the hooks are the lesser invasive way of mounting the bikes. They make a very small hole, and if it is noticeable when I move (which will hopefully be soon, house h unting started), I will just throw some woodfiller in the holes.

[Ryanpmb]

 

 

All disc brakes scream like banchees. so changing to a different make is not going to fix that. There are numerous things that can be done to get rid of the scream. Do a search on MTBR you'll be amazed at the different remedies they found through trial and error.

 

One of the biggest mistakes is bedding in new pads, and cleaning the rotors when changing pads. But no matter what you do, at some point depending on conditions you will always get chased by the invisible turkey

No screaming from my Hopes or Shimano's. The Avids I got rid of though - different story.

[madmarc]

Pretty much - while this is more common on caravan and trailer wheel bearings, there is a possibility that if you wash your bike after your ride and by some chance water enters either the wheel bearings (cup and cone, not sealed - although I have seen water inside sealed bearings) and ends up on the bearing surfaces, surface rust can begin to occur on the bearing surface in as little as a few weeks which will reduce bearing life - something a quick spin of the bearing will help to reduce. We have a very interesting case study of backup new electric motor failures because they were stored without a procedure in place to routinely rotate their shafts. Of course you could argue that if water is in the bearing in the first place the bearing life is compromised anyway, but that's going off the topic.

 

I agree with your analogy on rotating wheels based on what your procedure with electric motors, in fact it's common for all shafts to be rotated on heavy engineered components in storage for extended periods. We did that in the stores when they built Mossgas with all the machines being stored prior to installation. However if dust and water have contaminated the bearings they will have to be replaced anyway. Something they found out soon after commissioning on Mossgas, the longer equipment was stored the faster the bearings failed, so the procedure to rotate shafts during storage is kind of useless and a waste of time.

[madmarc]

No screaming from my Hopes or Shimano's. The Avids I got rid of though - different story.

 

I'm not here to promote SRAM or AVID, but from my signiture you will realise why i use them (I hate walking) but many cyclist are always blaming the brakes or looking for the fault in the area of the brakes, but it's not always just the brakes. The invisible turkey chasing you is actually a result of a thing called resonance. Resonance is a whole new subject to discuss, and god forbid if JB gets in on the discussion, because thats gonna be a whole new interesting lecture.

Resonance eminates from the source being the brake assembly incl the rotor up through the seat and chain stays and in some cases the entire frame vibrates like something from Adult World. By changing the weight, size or shape of some of these components will reduce or completely remove the resonance / vibration and the noise. I've heard of guys taping a small lead sinker to their stays or caliper fixing the problem as well as cable tieing the brake hose to the stays which ahs also worked, as well as changing to solid rotors and using a combination of metal and non metal pads.

 

the point is there is no difinitive answer to this problem because of all the different brake and frame designs, but once you understand resonance, you can start trying different solutions and one will eventually solve the problem through trial and error.

 

I run SRAM XO and they only scream for a short period when i been through water, once they dry off the run silent. But on the Lowveld Quest through the forest on stage 2 where it was wet with some serious descending everyones brakes were slaughtering Turkeys through the forest and most were running Shitmano.

[fabs]

I was going to agree with what you said until you ragged shimano again