Hanging bikes?

[skollie]

Het 'n bietjie van 'n spasie probleem! Is daar enige rede hoekom ek nie my fietse aan hul voorwiele moet ophang nie? Enige voorstelle

[chuck]

wel sal jy dit like om aan jou voorwiel te hang 

 

Ek doen dit al vir jare en geen probleme nie. Dis `n ou vrou storie dat die wiel soos `n eier gaan word, tensy jy op die fiets is as jy aan sy voorwiel hang

 

[TiBones]

I hang my bikes. If it is a MTB with a front shock, the shock makers reccommend you "bounce a bit when you first ride, just to get the oil in the right places.

[1Don]

I bought a holdfast wall mount for R130ish. They work well, you mount it on the wall and hang your bike on the top tube. Then they're out of the way.

[Johan Bornman]

Kry een van daai hake en hang hom. Jy sal sien dat dit nog steeds 'n klomp plek opvat. In daai geval kry 2 hake. Haal die voorwiel af en hang die fiets aan sy agterwiel. Nou't jy 400mm meer spasie by die handlebar. Hang die voorwiel aan die ander haak. Tegnies is daar geen rede waarom jy nie die fiets moet hang nie.

[GTRacing]

Solank hy net nie le nie...

[gongmech]

what about the bubbles in the disc brake  fluid. doent that move? Just wondering cos they said i shouldnt store my bike upside down.

[Cassie]

I bought a holdfast wall mount for R130ish. They work well' date=' you mount it on the wall and hang your bike on the top tube. Then they're out of the way.[/quote']

 

Guys, i want to know more!!  Where do one get these holdfast hooks (Cape town area)?

Or any other custum made hooks?

 

I have to hanfg the whole fandamily's bikes - 4 in total!!

 

 

[Overlord]

Builders Wharehouse have some great hooks that you can use. Buy a piece of plastic pipe and put it over the hook. Will not damage the frame that way. Spray some silicone spray into the plastic pipe or tube and it slides over the hook.

[Johan A Marais]

You can actually buy the hook with a plastic coating on it.  And yes builders warehouse sells them. 

 

I have bikes hanging in my garage on these hooks, I hang then upside down from the roof hooked on the front wheel and back wheel and then some against the wall hooked on the front wheel with the back wheel resting against the wall.

 

These hooks are very well priced, especially if you have to hang a couple of bikes.

 

It seems to work well for me.

 

Did try to get my MTB and RB with me in our main bedroom, but this did not go down to well with the wife...

[Johan Bornman]

If you have four bikes to hang, why not get the Holdfast 4-bike hanger? It is a piece of rectangular tubing, about 1.5 m long with four plastic coated hooks on. You mount it directly in the wall with two long masonry screws and a plastic plug and you can hang four bikes off it. If they have long handlebars, you hang one up one down, one up one down.

 

You'll actually see these hooks in most bike shops. They simply install them in series for wall to wall bikes.

 

I recommend this over individual hooks since the spacing is already worked out and you only need to drill two holes, which makes it much easier to get the whole lot level.

 

These hooks are great but the tyres smear the wall black. My garage doesn't mind though.

 

 

[NotSoBigBen]

what about the bubbles in the disc brake  fluid. doent that move? Just wondering cos they said i shouldnt store my bike upside down.

 

I was always of the opinion that if your brakes are properly bled then there should be no bubbles present

[Sammajoor]

*hijack*

 

Johan read your mail.

 

*hijack off*

 

[Johan Bornman]

Thanks Sammajoor. Mail read.

 

As for the bubbles in the brakes, it works like this:

 

The fluid reservoir in a bike's disc brake has a floating diaphragm on top of the fuild that moves up and down as the fluid is required to go elsewhere due to pad wear. As the pads wear, the reservoir empties and when you put new pads in, the reservoir is full again. Unlike car or motorbike reservoirs, the MTB reservoir has a floating diaphragm that more or less protects it from air entering the system when the bike is inverted.  I say more or less, since you can introduce air by manipulating the brakes when the bike is upside down. However, that is not something we generally do. Haning vertically, probably the same, depending on the brake lever angle relative to the horizontal.

 

If the brakes are bled, no bubbles are present but you can introduce new bubbles by turining the bike so tha the fluid doest cover the hole in the bottom of the reservoir AND you manipulate the lever.

 

In general, it is safe to put the bike in any position but not safe to put it upside down AND pump the lever.