Tie downs to the ceiling?

A block of wood isn't technically off of the ground but it counts.

Leaving the tire on concrete will give your tire a dry spot.

I think as long as the air pressure is right you won't need to worry about "flat spotting".

That's what your asking ....I think?

yeah. I'm just trying to keep it up so as not to get a flat spot. Could I just put car jackstands under the forks?

a block of wood will work just as long as it isn't sitting on the concrete floor!!!

Jackstand would work fine.

I generally use a small piece 2x4 and an old towel underneath so its on a soft of a spot as possible. I also go out atleast once a week and rotate the front wheel about a 1/4 turn or so to help keep the flat spots from happening.

Here is a idea, get a 2" X 12" about 8' long and put the whole bike on it.

ahh hell just ride it during winter..it'll be fine then!

Re: Keeping front wheel up

"Without a set of stands." That's my goal as well. I plan to stack small blocks of wood under the fork bottoms, using thin table saw strips of wood to get that last 1/8 inch to even out on the left and right sides. I got a lot of scrap wood, so this should be easy for me.

There's not a lot of weight on the front end when the bike is on the center stand, so whatever you have handy; a stack of standard sized bricks, empty metal juice or coffee cans, with small blocks of wood at the top, or cloth, so the painted tube bottoms aren't scraping against brick or metal.

I don't plan to lock the front fork during storage, so the front wheel will be pointed straight ahead. I don't think there will be a balance problem. The weight of the front end will be directed straight down.

I would have liked to put a wood block under a frame tube near the front (the lower fairing is off anyway), but there doen's seem to be one. I certainly won't rest the bike on the exhaust pipes.

Getting both wheels to spin freely in the air during storage appeals to me. I spin the wheels ever so often on my other two bikes during storage, with the idea that the bearings or bushings won't loose their roundness. Needless overkill, I suspect.

Tie downs to the ceiling, as Dee Dub suggested, sounds interesting. But you'd have to have a secure connection at the ceiling (maybe to a joist, rafter, or whatever they are called). What would a person tie those straps to on the bike? Front forks, somehow? I wouldn't want the handlebars to support the front during a long storage. Not at the grips, anyway. Overkill again, on my part.

we don't have that problem in florida. we just ride.lol

+1 Same here

Re: Keeping front wheel up


I'd strap then under the top tree...

I'd use a piece of styrofoam.