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DIY bike stands and SBC in the living room, was DIY bike standsand repair stations
On Aug 16, 7:00*am, DaveC wrote:
I'd like to build a means to hold my bike up in my apartment so I can work on it. Anybody who cares to describe their DIY setup to hold the bike (preferably at standing work-height), I'd be grateful. Thanks. 1. Clear the the kitchen table, turn the bike upside down on it, and almost everything you want to work on is at a convenient height. Buy a rubber mat to put on the table, or spread some cardboard, or your better half might complain. 2. You can buy folding stands, some of them lightweight, reasonably cheaply. At one townhouse we lived in where it was not convenient to take the bike into the garden, I just worked in the back hall beside the stairs when it rained, and outside on the front patio when it didn't. You don't need as much width as you might first imagine, as almost everything you do on a bike you do from either one side or standing at the back or the front of the bike. 3. You can buy the tilting, swivelling jaws (that hold the bike) in versions to bolt either onto a wall or onto a bench if you are in a position to make a permanent or semi-permanent installation. 4. Topeak sells a little stand that fits under the bottom bracket and raises the bike a few inches, which might be enough if you're young and limber. 5. Before I had a stand, I liked the low wall around raised flowerbeds on the front patio outside an earlier town house. For little jobs like spoke checking or oiling the chain, I'd sit on the wall and bend over. For bigger jobs I'd raise the bike onto the wall and drop the stand among the flowers. By extension, a milkmaid's stool or the sort of common low household step might also be useful to sit on. Andre Jute Visit Andre's recipes: http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/FOOD.html PS If you've never kept a SBC in the livingroom, you haven't lived. When one girlfriend complained, I had a scrap V12 Jag block black- chromed and mounted a glass plate on it, and replaced her in my livingroom with this altogether more pleasing sculpture. |
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DIY bike stands and SBC in the living room, was DIY bikestands and repair stations
On Aug 16, 3:10*pm, Andre Jute wrote:
On Aug 16, 7:00*am, DaveC wrote: I'd like to build a means to hold my bike up in my apartment so I can work on it. Anybody who cares to describe their DIY setup to hold the bike (preferably at standing work-height), I'd be grateful. Thanks. 1. Clear the the kitchen table, turn the bike upside down on it, and almost everything you want to work on is at a convenient height. Buy a rubber mat to put on the table, or spread some cardboard, or your better half might complain. 2. You can buy folding stands, some of them lightweight, reasonably cheaply. At one townhouse we lived in where it was not convenient to take the bike into the garden, I just worked in the back hall beside the stairs when it rained, and outside on the front patio when it didn't. You don't need as much width as you might first imagine, as almost everything you do on a bike you do from either one side or standing at the back or the front of the bike. 3. You can buy the tilting, swivelling jaws (that hold the bike) in versions to bolt either onto a wall or onto a bench if you are in a position to make a permanent or semi-permanent installation. 4. Topeak sells a little stand that fits under the bottom bracket and raises the bike a few inches, which might be enough if you're young and limber. 5. Before I had a stand, I liked the low wall around raised flowerbeds on the front patio outside an earlier town house. For little jobs like spoke checking or oiling the chain, I'd sit on the wall and bend over. For bigger jobs I'd raise the bike onto the wall and drop the stand among the flowers. By extension, a milkmaid's stool or the sort of common low household step might also be useful to sit on. Peter has already made the crucial point about working at eye level. You either have to raise the working parts of the bike to your eye level or lower yourself *comfortably* to the bike's eye-level. If you're cramped you hurry tricky jobs, if you can't see what you're doing you wreck components and assemble things wrong, and so on. Andre Jute Visit Andre's recipes: *http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/FOOD.html PS If you've never kept a SBC in the livingroom, you haven't lived. When one girlfriend complained, I had a scrap V12 Jag block black- chromed and mounted a glass plate on it, and replaced her in my livingroom with this altogether more pleasing sculpture. |
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DIY bike stands and SBC in the living room, was DIY bikestands and repair stations
On Aug 16, 10:10*am, Andre Jute wrote:
PS If you've never kept a SBC in the livingroom, you haven't lived. When one girlfriend complained, I had a scrap V12 Jag block black- chromed and mounted a glass plate on it, and replaced her in my livingroom with this altogether more pleasing sculpture. I ASSume that you've seen the picture of the Keith Black hemi block used as the base of a coffee table? nate |
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DIY bike stands and SBC in the living room, was DIY bikestands and repair stations
On Aug 17, 12:55*pm, N8N wrote:
On Aug 16, 10:10*am, Andre Jute wrote: PS If you've never kept a SBC in the livingroom, you haven't lived. When one girlfriend complained, I had a scrap V12 Jag block black- chromed and mounted a glass plate on it, and replaced her in my livingroom with this altogether more pleasing sculpture. I ASSume that you've seen the picture of the Keith Black hemi block used as the base of a coffee table? nate So I'm not alone in feeling that the living room is the correct place to store my race motorcycle over the winter? Awesome. |
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