Storing bikes vertically - potential issues with suspension fork?

[dasilvarsa]

 

Long Term Storage of Brand New and Demo Giant Bikes (Notice the Arrow)

[Grease_Monkey]

^ This.

 

Also, if your fork gives uphill because you turned it upside down it needed a service anyway.

 

Open bath and emulsion dampers (RS Motion Control, Fox Evolution and older non-FIT, Manitou, Marzo) will behave a bit erratically for the first few compressions if they've been upside down for a while, but will return to normal pretty quickly with no lasting issues. The oil just needs to get back on the right side of the compression valve.

Hahaha droo, you know my Ribbon needs a damper rebuild soon! Will be bringing it to you next month.

[Grease_Monkey]

Dammit. Why didn't I think of mounting them at a 45 degree angle like that.

My wife actually came up with the idea after I mounted the first bike at 90°, and was meauring up to mount the second bike higher up on the wall. This works nicely because you can mount them close together and they are easier to put on and remove.

 

I've changed the one that was at 90° to 45° as well (my OCD could not handle one being different from the others).

[Grease_Monkey]

IMG_7238.jpg

 

Long Term Storage of Brand New and Demo Giant Bikes (Notice the Arrow)

It's not really long term storage though, the longest that any one bike sits without being ridden is 5 days... and I load them upright on the car and drive to where ever I'm gonna ride, hopefully giving enough time for the oil to settle at the bottom of the lowers before I start riding.

 

As for the brakes, gave them all a bleed yesterday, and no sponginess anymore...

[droo]

Dammit. Why didn't I think of mounting them at a 45 degree angle like that. 

 

You'd have saved yourself a step ladder...

 

[popcorn_skollie]

You'd have saved yourself a step ladder...

 

 

I was gonna bring somoosas on the next visit. But now all you gonna get is samoosas.

[dasilvarsa]

https://www.bicycling.com/repair/a20016522/7-things-you-should-never-do-to-your-bike/

 

Read the whole chapter.

 

There's always the right way and then the cxxx txxx way.

[Grease_Monkey]

https://www.bicycling.com/repair/a20016522/7-things-you-should-never-do-to-your-bike/

 

Read the whole chapter.

 

There's always the right way and then the cxxx txxx way.

Bike is not being stored upside down. The back brake reservoir is higher than the caliper when stored vertically, front brake reservoir pretty much level with the caliper.

 

Have a look at how the bikes are hung in my first post (by the way - all three are now hung with handlebar at 45°), and all my bikes are brakes: left rear, front right orientation, putting both reservoir/levers higher than the calipers.

 

Besides, if there is no air in the system, nothing can go to the calipers. The solution to a bad bleed is to bleed it correctly, not to avoid turning your bike upside down

 

My main concern was suspension fork issues though - and from what I have read and advice on this forum - there seems to be nothing that can go wrong there either...

[Hairy]

Kief, thanks for all the replies guys. Puts my mind at ease then!

I am glad to someone else also uses the work "kief"   

[Grease_Monkey]

I am glad to someone else also uses the work "kief"

Daar is nog so paar van ons komen ouens oor

[Patchelicious]

RS1 forks must be confused

[Eugene]

Stored my bikes vertically for years with no hassles.

 

The hydraulic brake system is meant to be a closed and sealed unit if bled correctly, meaning that no matter what orientation they are placed in, it won't effect the system.

I thought the same thing. Logically, there should not be any spongyness in the brakes just by hanging upside down.

[Tankman]

IMG_7238.jpg

 

Long Term Storage of Brand New and Demo Giant Bikes (Notice the Arrow)

 

Those arrow are for when the bike are in the boxes and in transit. (Couriers, containers and air freight)

 

So that the courier guys dont stack 10 on top of each other while laying them flat ... and avoid bending cranks, derailleurs and hangers.

[Tankman]

Yes, I have seen bent cranks from stacking boxes on top of each other ... that and throwing a boxed bike from an airplane like it is a slice of cheese frisbee!

[Tankman]

RS1 forks must be confused

 

 

:lol:    Upside down when right way down and right way up upside down! 

 

That's what she said! 

[Hairy]

Those arrow are for when the bike are in the boxes and in transit. (Couriers, containers and air freight)

 

So that the courier guys dont stack 10 on top of each other while laying them flat ... and avoid bending cranks, derailleurs and hangers.

on that same image of the box, Giant also show that you should smash your "delicate's" into the top tube of your bicycle too.