New bike rack

nicely done!!! :-)

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au> wrote in message
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Finally got around to buying some steel and making up a rack for my five
bikes.

http://www.users.tpg.com.au/adsl4xun/images/BikeRacks.JPG

All up it cost me less than $40 for the steel, threaded rods (bent into
hooks at one end so I can adjust the individual height of each bike), and
dynabolts. Basically I welded up two brackets out of right angle steel

and

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bolted a rectangular bit of box section to the top. The rectangular bit

is

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50mm x 20mm and 1200mm long with a 10mm hole every 100mm so that I can
adjust the hooks (1m lengths of M10 threaded rod cut in half, bent at one
end, and covered with some old bike tubes that will probably get replaced
with some lagging from Clark rubber).

I am lucky enough to have a mate who has pretty well got every conceivable
metal working tool in his shed (got to play with arc welder, mig welder,

tig

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welder, plasma cutter, bender, drill press, grinder, steel cutting
bandsaw.........was great fun and we might have a crack soon at making

some

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horizontal dropouts and cold pressing the rear triangles of my SS so that

I

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can fit in the 110mm BMX hub that I have lined up for it.

I am pretty happy with the end result and I now have stacks more room in

the

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shed.........I wonder if I could fit another bike in there?????

Ride On,

Gags

Gags,

Do you work for Defence by any chance? I could have sworn i saw that link
below on the cycling folder at work today....

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Finally got around to buying some steel and making up a rack for my five
bikes.

http://www.users.tpg.com.au/adsl4xun/images/BikeRacks.JPG

All up it cost me less than $40 for the steel, threaded rods (bent into
hooks at one end so I can adjust the individual height of each bike), and
dynabolts. Basically I welded up two brackets out of right angle steel
and
bolted a rectangular bit of box section to the top. The rectangular bit
is
50mm x 20mm and 1200mm long with a 10mm hole every 100mm so that I can
adjust the hooks (1m lengths of M10 threaded rod cut in half, bent at one
end, and covered with some old bike tubes that will probably get replaced
with some lagging from Clark rubber).

I am lucky enough to have a mate who has pretty well got every conceivable
metal working tool in his shed (got to play with arc welder, mig welder,
tig
welder, plasma cutter, bender, drill press, grinder, steel cutting
bandsaw.........was great fun and we might have a crack soon at making
some
horizontal dropouts and cold pressing the rear triangles of my SS so that
I
can fit in the 110mm BMX hub that I have lined up for it.

I am pretty happy with the end result and I now have stacks more room in
the
shed.........I wonder if I could fit another bike in there?????

Ride On,

Gags

On 2005-09-26, Saul (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Gags,

Do you work for Defence by any chance? I could have sworn i saw that link
below on the cycling folder at work today....

He could tell you, but then he would have to shoot you.

That, or beware of the rocket launcher.

--
TimC
Dijkstra probably hates me
(Linus Torvalds, on gotos in kernel/sched.c)

"Saul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Gags,

Do you work for Defence by any chance? I could have sworn i saw that link
below on the cycling folder at work today....

You betcha......at least I turn up each day 😉

Gags