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Pound shop bike stand challenge
oldschoolace:
With MK round the corner my thoughts turned to bike stands today.
Too tight to spend the £20 a pop on the usual fodder and wanted to avoid the farcical shite that was last year's wooden efforts I googled bike stands to check out the conventional methods of standing a bike up.
Any ideas I had involved welding and/or alot of fabrication not to mention the fact that most solutions wouldn't really save much on £20.
Then it hit me! The pound shop!!!
What could I find there that could be misappropriated into some sort of stand? ???
Challenge accepted, I set off with an open mind clutching a shiny nugget :D
My first thoughts were some sort of plastic tub I could up-end and cut a tyre sized slot in but wandering down the tool isle I spotted these
Some sort of frame/bottom bracket hook sprung to mind and my search was over.
Back at base I stripped off the handle and roller head and an idea appeared based on the cranked section for roller head.
10 minutes in the vise yealded this
Got home and tried it. Bingo worked like a charm :LolLolLolLol:
Andyboy77:
Great idea Clint! :4_17_5:
chubby:
Wasn't what i imagined at all, clever little shite :yahoo_silent:
sawzall:
very tate modern clint :daumenhoch:
dancetothedrummersbeat:
Love a bit of Tate modern. I re-create the unmade bed exhibit every day. Great idea Clint
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