HELP!! How does heat affect carbon rims in storage?

itchieritchie
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Dear Gurus and Bike Deities, (especially of the carbon kind)
I store my Zipp 303's in the loft. Sometimes it can get pretty warm in there on account of the water tank. It's quite a big loft but the rims themselves are about 4 metres away from the water tank. They're also kept in wheel bags.
Am I doing any damage to the carbon with the constant fluctuations in heat and cold? I'm always on my training hoops and only ever take out my beauties for race day. Don't want to enter my next tri and then find that they've gone brittle or something and completely stuff up on me...!!
Come to think of it, my carbon frame is ALSO in there (Focus Izalco Expert) and wouldn't want THAT going awry on me either...but I haven't raced in almost a year now, hence my questions.
How do you store your rims and frames?
Thanks for any advice you can give me. :P
Newbie Rich (first post)
I store my Zipp 303's in the loft. Sometimes it can get pretty warm in there on account of the water tank. It's quite a big loft but the rims themselves are about 4 metres away from the water tank. They're also kept in wheel bags.
Am I doing any damage to the carbon with the constant fluctuations in heat and cold? I'm always on my training hoops and only ever take out my beauties for race day. Don't want to enter my next tri and then find that they've gone brittle or something and completely stuff up on me...!!
Come to think of it, my carbon frame is ALSO in there (Focus Izalco Expert) and wouldn't want THAT going awry on me either...but I haven't raced in almost a year now, hence my questions.
How do you store your rims and frames?
Thanks for any advice you can give me. :P
Newbie Rich (first post)
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Carbon Fiber is used for car and motorbike exhaust muffler canisters which can get well over 90C degrees. Your wheels may possibly use a different type of resin so best to contact Zipp but most likely it's not a problem. UV rays from sunlight supposedly can deteriorate unpainted or clearcoated CF but my CF forks are around 8yrs old, get ridden in plenty of bright sunshine where I live and are stored near the ceiling in my flat where often the heat can get over 35 deg.0