- Good morning motivators. It might not seem like much,
but in behind these doors is a bike garage, a bike shed,
a bike storage locker, that is as secure as I could possibly
make it. And as convenient as I could possibly make it.
This is our new home on Vancouver island.
And we're trying to set it up, so that we can have people
come in from all around the world.
And one of the things that people are bringing, bikes.
So we gotta make sure we have a place to store them.
So let's say you have an area under a deck like we do,
or maybe in between a couple of buildings on your property.
Maybe there's just some sort of area that you think you
could possibly enclose that doesn't have to necessarily look
like this, but you want to get a little bit
of extra space out of it.
Now, the concern is always, well,
how do I make something like this
actually secure enough to be able to be outside and not have
my bikes inside taking up space? And how do I make it dry
enough so that my bikes can actually withstand the elements
being outside?
So, even if you don't have a setup exactly like this,
I'm going to tell you some of the methods that I used and
selected in the building of this,
that you could maybe apply to something that you choose to
build.
Let's dive in.
The first thing I had to do was prep the area.
I had to do a little bit of cleanup.
And what we had outside here was really wispy, thin,
almost like lattice type siding.
But I had to take off of all the side because that isn't
going to be secure enough.
But my understanding actually living in Winnipeg,
where there was a lot of property crime, is that most thefts
are spur of the moment.
It's we know that there's something to take,
or we think there's something to take here, they get in,
take it, move away.
So in the case of all that lattice,
that's going to be something that people can really quickly
go, err, err, err, pull it all off
because it was just stapled. It's just then stuff.
But I wanted to make sure that
that wasn't going to be the case.
So what I ended up doing was I took down all of that lattice
and I replaced it with two by six pressure treated wood
here. Pressure treated is to allow it to be out here in the
elements without getting soft, without degrading.
The two by six is because this is like, this is really,
really solid stuff.
How I ended up putting this together was with screws.
Now you want screws because people can't
come with a crowbar and pry this off with screws.
After I built it, I came back and
I took out some of the screws randomly,
and I replaced them with security screws.
Now, security screws, they don't have a Phillips head
or Robertson head, a slot head.
All of the common things that robbers or anyone really might
be walking around with easily. What security screws are,
is it's a specific head that unless have that head,
you aren't taking that screw out.
So I replaced about half of the screws here once I had it
all set up with those security screws.
This security isn't done yet. Come in to the inside.
My dad made the really good comment when I showed him
putting up all of the two by fours that people could
theoretically just pry one of these two by fours off,
eh,
somewhat easily.
So he recommended actually taking some of those leftover
small little slats.
This is just one inch little members here and screwing those
in vertically.
Now what happens is somebody can go ahead and take off this
top board if they really, really want to.
And somehow they have that security screw,
but then even if they unscrew everything there,
this board is going to stay put because it's screwed into
all these members vertically.
Now I put those all the way around at roughly eight and a
half inch intervals.
Really, it just kind of looks like lattice from the outside
and from the inside, it actually serves that
really nice security purpose.
Let's talk the final little bit of security.
This is like top, top, top end.
So for the first couple of weeks as I was putting this
together, I just had a small little normal latch on this.
The problem with typical latches is that somebody can come
in with a pair of bolt cutters and poof,
really quickly take that off.
A typical latch is fairly namby pamby.
If somebody really wanted to, again,
they could take a crowbar, they could take a hammer, bam,
break the latch fairly easily. Not with this.
So, what I ended up putting in here is called a
hasp and lock combo.
This is actually intended for cargo trailers and vans and
things that are left out in yards
or in back alleys.
And they often have a lot of tools and goods in there that
people want to steal.
So this thing is like hardcore quarter-inch steel.
And then I reinforced with a two by four in behind these
bridging a couple of these pieces here,
so that it's not just in one area and they can't
just take one of the boards off.
These are also security screwed in,
but what this has is this lock is integral to it.
So, there's nothing exposed.
There is nothing that somebody could come in with a pair of
bolt cutters, and actually cut.
You can hammer on this for days on end because
it's bolted in, in it's quarter inch steel.
The bolts are three and a half inches going all the way
through a one inch piece of board here
and then an inch and a half piece of board there.
This thing is going to be more secure than in the garage,
but what it's got to secure, is a bunch of bikes.
I've got storage in there for the bikes that is really,
really super unique.
I've actually been looking at how to get as many bikes as
possible into a storage area as I possibly could for like
six months. And this is what we've got.
One of the issues that I had with our old bike storage
system at the old pain cave is that every single bike took
up roughly two feet. So you add that up, and when you're
out here in Vancouver Island, we want a road bike.
We want a gravel bike. We want a triathlon bike.
We want a mountain bike. We want commuter bikes.
Times some of those bikes by two, because NTK
is going to ride a little bit out here.
We're talking maybe 7, 8, 9 bikes.
So a do I really want to dedicate 18 feet for bike storage?
No.
I want to be able to store that in this nice little area.
Well, how I did that was with sliding hooks.
And look at this.
I actually took this idea from a mountain bike YouTuber who
I'll link his video at the end of this video to give him
some credit.
And he has a couple of options where things move and slide a
little bit smoother, but, but personally,
I just wasn't feeling the need to have some of those
features and it also made it significantly cheaper.
But he's got a really good tutorial on putting all of this
together if you want to see this in more detail.
What I put here was closet rod at the top,
cost maybe I think 30 bucks.
And then we took typical bike hooks that are about five
inches long.
I ended up actually screwing a bolt and a washer in.
And so the washer keeps it from pulling through because it's
wider than the track.
And then the bolt you're going to say, well,
aren't these bike hooks supposed to be screwed into wood?
Yeah, that's true.
But if you actually get the right size bolt,
you can still just thread them on.
You're going to rip the thread apart,
but it doesn't really matter because you don't really need
the thread. It's all being hung just by gravity.
So, I screwed this up into the joist and then just started
sliding these hooks in.
And if you take a look at this little area here,
we have three bikes in about two and a half square feet.
So I'm cutting down the amount of storage space that we need
to store bikes by about two thirds. Next question is, well,
how do you actually keep this dry? Doesn't it rain a lot?
The answer is right up here.
This is just plastic corrugated sheeting that you would
actually see over top of like a greenhouse or a pergola.
These are about 50 bucks a sheet.
They come in about 24 inches wide, 10 feet long.
So, just three of them across was all we needed to do.
I had to notch it around the post that we've got here
and then overlap. And two-sided rubber tape,
all of the seams, and then a little bit of overlap of a full
groove so that there is no water in here.
Any water that's currently on the ground right now is just
from what splashed with everything else around it actually
dripping. There is no dripping at all in here.
And we just had the hardest rainstorm that most people have
seen here in a long, long time. Bikes are bone dry.
Little admission of a tip,
don't try to use old fence boards and overlap them,
thinking it's going to be good.
I spent an entire afternoon doing that up here and then it
just leaked right away.
So then you saw grumpy Taron having to undo all of that work
and then
(knocking)
put the proper stuff up.
Put the proper stuff up
(knocking)
right from the start. Okay.
Then there are some finishing touches that we have to put on
because this is a in and out working, functioning,
every single day kind of bike shed.
How can we get as much of the gross stuff,
the dirty stuff, out of the house and into this area?
So, I just took some really basic coat hanger hooks,
put them on the wall here for helmets.
We have two on each side going down with three rows and we
have room over top because I left a little bit of room over
top of here for the Evoque tailgate pad here that can go and
get muddy, dirty. I can spray it down in a
special area that I'm about to show you over there.
And then it can just drip dry over in this spot right here.
I also wanted an area to be able to wash bikes.
That's why on this side, on the exterior, I ended up
putting up this little bike hook here.
It's just screwed in to the edge.
It's not what this security screws.
If somebody wants to steal this $8 hook,
they are more than welcome.
But something to note, is that as I'm spraying here,
there's a lot of water coming down.
So I specifically ended up choosing an area with river wash.
If you have an area that you want to put a bike washing
station, I would definitely encourage you
not to have mud or grass underneath
because the amount of water that's going to come down,
is going to create a little bit of erosion.
It's always going to be mucky.
So you want something like concrete or river wash
underneath. When I ended up posting a little teaser
about this on Instagram,
some people did have the comment about this being out in
salt air. Now there's a couple of things about that.
People also posted about the humid air that would have been
in the old pain cave, where the bikes were stored, and
we had a master spa swim spot.
It was fairly humid in there, even with the dehumidifier.
But at no point, did I ever look at any of the components
on my bikes that had been in there with that swim spa
for two years and see any sort of corrosion.
My thoughts and I could be proven wrong,
and if I am proven wrong,
I'm just going to buy an Amazon bike cover and put it over
and see if that works, is that there's humid everywhere.
I'm opening the garage door, I'm closing the garage door.
Even if I were to build bike storage in the garage,
it's still humid, salt water air there,
just like it is here. It's the same air inside and outside.
So I am hoping that this will be enough.
I'm going to keep an eye on all of the bike parts and see
how they're holding up. And really when it comes down to it,
the bike parts that can corrode are like chains, and
cassettes, and cog sets.
Like things that really get replaced anyway.
That's that I am bringing all the electronics inside - my
Garmin 10 80 plus, bike computer,
the SRAM batteries, and my Garmin radar light.
Like all of those are going to come inside.
It's really just going to be the mechanical stuff that's in
here. So motivators, I hope that you found that informative.
I certainly found this fun.
We have a lot of projects that we're creating in the pain
cave inside, in island Relaxo, out here with swim spa,
hot tub, sauna.
I'll have affiliate links in the description below to any of
the specific things that I chose and would recommend for
you. If you were doing something similar like this,
that might be hard to find. If you're wondering which things
I actually use, those will all be
linked in the description below.
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it is a total pain in the patoot to move a camera around
while you're doing construction.
So, with all of that said, later motivators.