I've just received 4 new tyres (2 front, 2 rear) and it's probably going to be at least a year before I need to use the last of them (my existing front has at least 3 months use left on it). In the past, I've just propped them up against the wall in the garage for the best part of a year and they seemed fine. Now however, given it will probably be longer before they are used and that I now have the garage space to store them in all manner of ways, what is the "correct" way of storing them? Is on the floor best or up against the wall (get your mind out of the gutter :P)? Do you need to move them about periodically so that you don't get flat spots or is this only an issue with tyres fitted to a bike given there is much less weight on them?
I have spare wood/space to make some sort of frame to hold them on the wall like those proper "tyre racks", this sort of thing:
http://www.powerlinks.co.uk/images/tyre-rack.jpg
Is this worthwhile, or do folks think it's overkill?
Ta in advance, chaps and chapesses.
