hot bike shed harmful to bikes

[Adrian Boliston]

Our black wooden bike shed at work is absolutely ROASTING inside and you practically burn yourself
touching the bike!

Can this heat harm the bike or it's components in any way?

[Arthur Clune]

Adrian Boliston <adrian@boliston.co.uk> wrote:

: Can this heat harm the bike or it's components in any way?

Not really. The expansion/contraction due to hot/cold may mean that you have to pump your tyres up a
bit more than normal but that's about it.

I've had my bike get too hot to sit on just leaving it in direct Sunday in the Pyrenees.

Arthur

[Adrian Boliston]

"Arthur Clune" <ajc22@york.ac.uk> wrote in message news:beugst$ou9$1@pump1.york.ac.uk...

> Adrian Boliston <adrian@boliston.co.uk> wrote:
>
> : Can this heat harm the bike or it's components in any way?
>
> Not really. The expansion/contraction due to hot/cold may mean that you have to pump your tyres up
> a bit more than normal but that's about it.
>
> I've had my bike get too hot to sit on just leaving it in direct Sunday in the Pyrenees.

No risk of evaporating the grease and oil in the bearings, or perishing the tyre rubber then?

[Pete Biggs]

Adrian Boliston wrote:

> No risk of evaporating the grease and oil in the bearings, or perishing the tyre rubber then?

Tyres should be fine, especially as synthetic rubber is used for nearly all brands now.

I suspect the grease would gradually dry up if bike was left long enough in the heat, but our
summers aren't /that/ long :-(

Minor problems might be glue in handlebar tape or anything else going squidgy and coming unstuck.

I can't of any other problems. At least bike is better off than it would be in damp winter
conditions.

~PB

[Simon Mason]

"Adrian Boliston" <adrian@boliston.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<beuc00$92g0q$1@ID-111900.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Our black wooden bike shed at work is absolutely ROASTING inside and you practically burn yourself
> touching the bike!
>
> Can this heat harm the bike or it's components in any way?

I suppose it could reduce the viscosity of the lube oil, so it is thin enough to drain out of
the cables or bearings, but other than that can't see it having much effect. Decals could peel
off. Simon

[Erdefen]

Adrian Boliston wrote:

> Our black wooden bike shed at work is absolutely ROASTING inside and you practically burn yourself
> touching the bike!
>
> Can this heat harm the bike or it's components in any way?

Paint your shed white, it should reduce the temp by at least 10 deg C. Regards Erdefen

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[Adrian Boliston]

"Erdefen" <lodiehr.pants@clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:3F1326DC.F1577F1A@clara.co.uk...

> Paint your shed white, it should reduce the temp by at least 10 deg C.

I could always wrap aluminium cooking foil all round the shed to reflect the sun's rays!

[Peter Clinch]

Adrian Boliston wrote:

> No risk of evaporating the grease and oil in the bearings, or perishing the tyre rubber then?

Given the popularity of cycling in much hotter countries than this one (say, southern Italy) I
really don't think there's *that* much to worry about. Or indeed the continued usability of far
worse specced and maintained bikes for daily transport over poor roads in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pete.

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