DON'T TIRE OUT !

After buying a new spare tire for my bike,  I was going to make sure  this spare kept its shape.
Looking around, I found a used 8' length of 3/8" copper pipe that I bent up as you see.
Bending copper pipe is easy but tight curves are not, here is a video if you want perfect.

• The main thing is the first bend, it needs to match the tire radius (see the third pic).
• Then make the second and third bends at an angle away from where the tire will hang.
• And the last sharp Hook bends are hard to do without crinkling the tube.
• Finally put two 1/4" leg tips to avoid copper scratches where hung up.

Here is the  Bike  reason for this ible.

You can see the Ladyada three SpokePOV Blue LED boards.
I have assembled six sets of three for friends and family, that is 1080 LEDs
Each and every LED worked the first time, as did the board..

And you can see my spare tire hanging in the background top right.

Need some preventive maintenance on the bike
IF  I'm going to use it for my favorite Burning Man mid morning pastime.

FAVORITE PASTIME :
Start at 10 am
Get on the bike and cross the center plya to the other side stopping at the first Bar with customers.
Then the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth and  the sixth bars ( see the detailed blue map ).
By the seventh Bar,  I look into activity at Center camp.
Then on to visit Bar 8,  Bar 9,  Bar 10, and the eleventh Bar is my last great stop before returning to my RV. 

End at 3 pm..
Arriving amused and sober from peddling in the hot sun and ready for the comming nights activities after a nice
AC ( air conditioned ) afternoon nap.

I thought a tire hanger could be made cheaper and lighter.
iceng agreed, copper price being what it is these days.

PAPER HANGER
Specifically out of 3/4" thick cardboard.

Yes.....  it was cut  correctly so it  fits the tire and now is balancing on a Coke bottle top.

Bend a 1/4" copper tube by hand.
The sharp bend was made with a ball peen hammer .
The hook end was bent by a needle nose plier .
And the reinforcing of the sharp bend is a little solder applied by a marginal powered solder gun.

The hook was force fully pressed, by hand, into the balance point of the cardboard.

And that is the low cost, low weight  tire hanger version.

Showing a  WRONG  method of long term tire storage !

You do not want to let the wight of the tire deform itself
hooked over a convenient stick, iron hook, metal beam or 2x4 wood bar.

Here we see some of the many  CORRECT  ways you can store a Tire.

Collaborating for your instructable,

ICeng  and  Grengate.