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keeping bikes off the ground?
Whether you use your bikes every day, or store them for the winter,
what are the advantages to keeping your bike off the ground (besides the obvious of saving room)? Does it allow your tires to last longer, or perhaps not lose air pressure over time? |
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keeping bikes off the ground?
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:04:30 -0700 (PDT), Ablang
wrote: Whether you use your bikes every day, or store them for the winter, what are the advantages to keeping your bike off the ground (besides the obvious of saving room)? Does it allow your tires to last longer, or perhaps not lose air pressure over time? Dear Ab, Nope. The air pressure rises too little to measure with conventional gauges when each tire supports a load of about ten pounds. (Look at the normally inflated tires of a bike as they rest on the ground--not much flattening, is there?) The gradual loss of air pressure is a matter of the solubility of air (80% N2, 20% O2) in the butyl or latex rubber. The gases are much more soluble in natural latex, so tires with those tubes lose air faster. (CO2 is _much_ more soluble than N2 or O2, which is why flat tires pumped up with cartridges lose "air" in a few days.) Tires that have lost pressure and sat for a very long time can be damaged, but obviously their owners didn't care about them. Tire deterioration is a common problem in highwheeler restoration. After more than a century, natural rubber solid tires are not a pretty sight: http://www.hochrad.info/hochradseite...e%20reifen.htm But they'd be just as ugly even if they'd hung from the ceiling. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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keeping bikes off the ground?
"Ablang" wrote in message ... Whether you use your bikes every day, or store them for the winter, what are the advantages to keeping your bike off the ground (besides the obvious of saving room)? Does it allow your tires to last longer, or perhaps not lose air pressure over time? Makes it harder for the mice to crawl onto the bike and chew off the bar tape where you left sticky-sugary gu on it. This actually happened to me during a single night of storage in a garage infested with mice in the mountains. BobT |
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, Ablang wrote: Whether you use your bikes every day, or store them for the winter, what are the advantages to keeping your bike off the ground (besides the obvious of saving room)? None. Does it allow your tires to last longer, or perhaps not lose air pressure over time? No. |
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keeping bikes off the ground?
Prevents low spots from developing on the tyres.
Lee "Ablang" wrote in message ... Whether you use your bikes every day, or store them for the winter, what are the advantages to keeping your bike off the ground (besides the obvious of saving room)? Does it allow your tires to last longer, or perhaps not lose air pressure over time? |
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