Bike Rack Plans
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
When I posted about my homemade bicycle hoist I was living in a condominium. Pretty shortly, a couple of months after hanging it the home owners association wrote me a rather nasty letter telling me I was not allowed to hang anything off the roof above, or even store bikes ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Although not really a homemade bike rack plan I decided to post this in that category also since this could be made into a custom bike rack. What we have here is I believe is an older Chevrolet Silverado, a trailer, some sort of motor cycle and two road ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Here are the bike rack plans for the standalone homemade triangle bike rack that I wrote about. Its actually quite simple to build if you know how to weld. These can be made for as many or few bikes as you need. Just adjust the length of the poles. ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Garages are perfect places to store your bikes. Naturally instead of putting your bikes up against the wall some type of bike rack is needed for your garage. I wrote a good page on finding the perfect bike rack for your garage but it is not getting the exposure it ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
According to the ct.gov here is the definition of home made:
The use of the terms "homemade" or "home made," or other similar terms, is limited to those products actually manufactured in the home and under conditions which normally prevail in the home.
This is related to food, but is ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I stand corrected on my post about camper bike racks. Apparently there is a difference between a camper and the pop up type of camper that I was thinking of. I made the plans for a pop up camper, not a conventional. Take a read of that post if you ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Whats a really cheap way to make a bike rack?
The answer is easy make a pallet rack!
A Pallet rack is basically a rack that is made from an old pallet. You know the type that forklifts use to move stuff around. Well the idea and design is simple.
Steps
1: Find a ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Firstly you have to decide what type of bike rack it is you want to build. Once you've decided on that browse for bike rack plans for the type you want to build.
The next step is to get the tools and materials needed. When buying material always buy more than ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Pop up campers are awesome. They are cool to hitch up and go out camping. Whats fun while camping is any type of biking. When you have your camper hooked up to your car truck or SUV there is not much room if any for bikes once you've got all ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
I've added a new page. It was going to be a post but then I got to thinking that it might be a good one to be static. The page is:
Different Types of Bike Racks, Mounts, Hoists & Carriers. The title is pretty much self explanatory, it will be ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
All right, I've made some more drawing plans for the bike rack/hoist to illustrate how I made my own bike hoist. Its pretty easy, four steps. You'll have to excuse the plans drawings. I did them in paint since I'm not an artist may seem a bit childish.
The only tool ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
This is part one of a two part article on home brew bike hoists.
The post I made yesterday was actually a drawing I had made a while back. Its a good method for suspending a bike in the air but it isn't really a bike rack. Hoists are popular among ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I have plans that I have written down on how to build a bike rack. The bike rack is a very simple pulley system that is used in conjunction with a rope. You hook the bike onto the rope with other pieces of rope and the 150lb carabina, then simply ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Biking is one of my hobbies. Any type of biking will do the tick whether it be road, mountain or city riding it all does the trick.
So whats this site about then? The domain is multi purpose, is it Bike Rack Ed, as in Education? Bike Rack Ed as in ...
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