- Now I'm pretty keen on carpentry
and I've gotta be
cuz I'm currently renovating
my own farm cottage as well as being mad keen
on bikes, as we all know.
Now something that happens when you've got lots of bikes
is they have a tendency
to lie up against one another
and they get scratched,
rear derailleurs get knocked out of place
and you get all sorts of troubles
caused by that.
So today, let's build a bike storage stand.
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Now we are going to need some equipment of course.
So first of all, we're going to use some timber
as well as a saw.
You don't necessarily need something
quite as big as this,
as well as an electric screw driver.
Again, you can use a handheld one,
a manual one,
but this one it just going to make it
a little bit easier,
as well as a tape measure,
a pencil
and importantly, some screws.
Oh and don't forget,
the safety specs.
(funky electronic music)
The size of the bike stand
totally depends on your own requirements.
So personally, what I'm going to building today
is a stand suitable for three road bikes,
so they're gonna have enough breathing room
to fit three bikes with 42 centimeters handlebars
and 700c wheels.
If you wanna see the sizes of timber
that I'm going to be using,
you can find the information for that
down there in the description below.
Alright firstly, I'm going to start
by making my end boards.
So I have got a pretty long bit of wood here,
2.4 meters long,
so I'm going to cut it dead center,
but don't worry,
you'll start to see this jigsaw
come into shape pretty soon.
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(saw cutting)
Next up, I'm going to start constructing the wheel support.
So at this point, it's probably not that clear actually
how this bike stand is going to work.
Well it's actually going to work
by holding each individual wheel in place,
so the bike doesn't fall over.
So for this, I'm going to need six individual bits
to help that rack start to work.
So I've actually calculated
that 500 millimeters in length
is going to be just about right for 700c wheels.
Then the height, well about 9 centimeters high.
I could go a little bit higher if I wanted to,
but I don't actually want the rack to be that heavy
because if I'm going to start moving it around and stuff,
I don't have the biggest of arms to actually deal with that.
So, I'm going to mark up six lengths of 500 mil timber here
and remember, it's the nine centimeter depth one
and then once I've chopped it up,
we're gonna make it look a bit more aesthetically pleasing.
Where it actually matches up with the end boards
because we've got a chop saw with us,
it seems rude not to use it.
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(saw cutting)
Now I've got my six wheel supports chopped up.
Hopefully, you can start to see
how it's going to take place.
So this is the end board here for the support
of the actual frame
and then here, this is where you're gonna put your wheel
in between, so the bike stands up.
There is a blazingly obvious difference
in the types of wood,
but with a good reason.
I want the wheel to be supported nicely from the sides,
but what I'm going to do is actually take out
some material here
to a point about 100 millimeters along,
so that's 26 millimeters difference.
I'm just gonna taper that off
just to make it a little bit nicer to look at.
Of course, if you're really good with a saw,
you can even well possibly curve that there too,
but I'm not that good with a saw.
(doomy metal music)
Point to point, it should be fairly easy.
Sadly, I can only cut up to a 45 degree angle.
Otherwise, I would be well all over this,
but fingers crossed.
Hopefully I don't use the fingers.
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Yeah, looks good to me.
(guitar solo playing)
See what I'm doing? (laughs)
It's coming to together, nicely.
Just five more to go.
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(saw cutting)
So, I've got my six wheel supports now all done
and well I've got a big pile of saw dust too,
so the hamster at home will be nice and happy.
Now, all I need to do is mark up one of my end boards
exactly where these wheel supports are going to go.
So I'm definitely going to put one on the end
to be able to create the frame
and then, four centimeters along, so 40 millimeters,
I'm going to put the other one.
The reason being I don't have any bikes at home
with tires wider than that.
Of course, if you do,
you gonna wanna have a bigger gap there.
If I do use my cyclo-cross bike,
decide to put it in here,
that's got tires of 35 millimeters wide,
so that will fit in there okay.
Even if I've got them pumped up really hard,
let a bit of air out
and it will go in there absolutely fine.
Gonna repeat that on the other end, exactly the same
and then I'm going to find a center most part of this,
so it's going to be 60 centimeters.
Then measure two centimeters, either side,
and that's gonna give me my position
for the central wheel supports.
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So what we'll do now is we're just gonna
literally mirror those measurements or those lines
onto the other end boards,
so it's nice and simple when it comes to
attaching those wheel supports in place.
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So depending on what facilities you have,
either at your workshop or your own home
or your place at work, in my case,
depends on how easy this step is gonna be.
So I've rested one bit of timber here, the end board,
up on this chop saw and I've actually
started to thread the screw in separately.
So I'm not having to deal with,
well hold three things at once essentially.
So I've got that there,
nicely lined up square.
If you have got a big ol' clamp,
this is gonna make it much easier,
but you wanna make it nice and square
and then simply let,
hopefully an electric screw driver
do all the hard work for you.
(screwdriver drilling)
As you can see there,
the actual screwdriver bit did start to slip a little bit,
but don't worry.
If you're using a decent screwdriver bit
and also decent screws,
you won't round anything off.
Essentially, you want the main frame structure
to start taking place,
then you can really torque these up a little bit tighter,
so it's nice and stable.
(sighs) The jigsaw is coming together.
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(screwdriver drilling)
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(screwdriver drilling)
Can you see what it is yet?
Yeah that's right.
We're nearly there.
We just gotta put this last little end board on
and then, we're gonna put some bikes in it.
Not bad is it?
For a few bits of timber.
Nice.
(screwdriver drilling)
So I'm just gonna torque up all of the screws now,
so there all nice and tight in there
and we'll go and test it out.
Something you may want to consider doing as well
is possibly sanding it down,
just to get rid of any rough edges,
something like that
and maybe add some wood stain too
to help preserve this wood,
particularly if you ride in wet places
and you've got a wet bike in there
at the end of your ride.
Alright, I suppose we've gotta find ourselves
some road bikes with 700c wheels to try this one out.
There we are, three bikes racked up, ready to ride
and they're not gonna get scratched.
They're not gonna get bashed on their rear mechs,
which is always good news, isn't it?
Let me know what you think of it
down there in the comment section below.
Also, what would you like me to make next?
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