EasyPeez
Veteran
- Location
- Cottingham, East Yorkshire
Now I have a dedicated commuting bike my steel framed road bike is seeing very little action (i.e none in the last couple of months) over the winter. It's stored in an unheated brick shed with one of these chucked over it -
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bik...rage-solutions/halfords-essentials-bike-cover
It was cleaned and lubed before storage, and tyres left pumped up.
According to various online sources, if I leave my bike like this for an extended period I can expect one or more of the following problems when I come to ride it again -
- Tyre sidewalls perished and/or tyres flat spotted
- Rusted frame from condensation forming inside tubing
- Grease in all the bearings will have dried up
- Cables will be rusted and siezed
Should I be worried about any/all of the above? And if so are there things I can do to mitigate these problems,? Could the bike cover be more of a hindrance than a help, in terms of trapping in any moisture?
I'm in the north of England so temperatures are pretty parky now and likely to remain so for the forseeable. The shed (it's more like a very small garage really) is brick with tiled roof and concrete floor. There are no leaks and I have some gardening books in there which haven't disintegrated over the years, but there is some evidence of damp around the roof area from time to time. The tumble drier is in there and gets used every couple of days for an hour or two; it has a flue piping the warm, damp air outside but I daresay this isn't 100% effective.
Cheers.
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bik...rage-solutions/halfords-essentials-bike-cover
It was cleaned and lubed before storage, and tyres left pumped up.
According to various online sources, if I leave my bike like this for an extended period I can expect one or more of the following problems when I come to ride it again -
- Tyre sidewalls perished and/or tyres flat spotted
- Rusted frame from condensation forming inside tubing
- Grease in all the bearings will have dried up
- Cables will be rusted and siezed
Should I be worried about any/all of the above? And if so are there things I can do to mitigate these problems,? Could the bike cover be more of a hindrance than a help, in terms of trapping in any moisture?
I'm in the north of England so temperatures are pretty parky now and likely to remain so for the forseeable. The shed (it's more like a very small garage really) is brick with tiled roof and concrete floor. There are no leaks and I have some gardening books in there which haven't disintegrated over the years, but there is some evidence of damp around the roof area from time to time. The tumble drier is in there and gets used every couple of days for an hour or two; it has a flue piping the warm, damp air outside but I daresay this isn't 100% effective.
Cheers.