Bike racks that is :P

So where can I get a bike rack? The none car type that uni's and schools have?
I have bout 4 or so bikes I need to stand up.

did you try googling 'bike rack'?

cause I did, and it answered your question pretty easily...

a bike shop..

I ebay'ed as well. But I don't have the budget of a school or university so I wondered if anyone knew of where to get a cheap alternative.

woah what the s***... how expensive are these bad boys!?

http://corabike.cart.net.au/cat/35042.html

edit: DIY IKEA bike rack maybe? http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/02/15/diy_ikea_bike_rack.html

i see what you mean about the price though, these companies seem to be charging an obscene amount of money for a few rails of metal

last edited by taggs at 12:28:47 27/Oct/08

get your lazy ass man to build one :P

Holy crap, that's expensive. I'd definitely DIY

They look like high quality council ones though taggs, they're built to take a beating.

Got any walls to drill into? We hang all of ours up on these hook systems, works a treat.

Very cheap.

get some square hollow section galvanised steel, angle grinder, a welder and your lazy partner

how hard is it to weld some metal together? dont u have any friends that are welders or friends of friends?

buy the materials give someone a carton and get it done

jeebus christ, the thing is you just know that councils etc are paying these sort of prices and probably dont have a problem with it.

For a metal work shop, theres gotta be about what? 1 hour labour and f*** all materials cost?, and then charge $680 bucks.

i thought this thread was about breasts. DECEPTIVE!!!

I thought it would be about server racks.

3 of our bikes have been standing on these for many years. They can't be too expensive.

Lynx, they are kids bikes, they don't have them. At the moment they all lie on their side. I want to stand them all up.

I guess a quick and dirty pine rack will do.

Would have hoped I could have bought it for cheap instead

I thought this thread was gonna be about server cabinets with breasts all around them. paging blahnana for appropriate pics

she meant wrx

AWD > *

haha, WRX, haha.

uh, have you tried leaning the bikes up against a wall?

Drum kit racks?

Line racks? Line gun ftw

Gun racks? Wine racks?

Paging stinky to the thread for recipes for rack of lamb.

i've got an awesome picture for this thread, but you guys have seen it

lol

i've got an awesome picture for this thread, but you guys have seen it

Post it anyway so we can pick on you some more...
edit:

I thought this thread was gonna be about server cabinets with breasts all around them. paging blahnana for appropriate pics

Mad propz to the pimpana if he finds them...

last edited by Mantra at 14:41:16 27/Oct/08

last edited by Mantra at 14:41:43 27/Oct/08

you see minxy.. yet another instance of it's usefullness

I am impressed Paveway, I never would have thought it'd come in handy in so many instances

Hai! I hearded that pave gnos a grl with big boobies! Is it troo!!??

Yeah, his mum is decked out up top.

Yeah, his mum is decked out up top.

Gotta be good for business...

lulz, jealousy is a curse

lulz, jealousy is a curse

You're right, I wish my Mum was hawt...

lulz, jealousy is a curse

I'm only jealous when the other guys have their hands on them.

sorry i can't hear you guys over how awesome i am

you're hearing must be crap cos you're not awesome.

that really hurt russ, i thought we were bro's

i cant hear cos my head (penis) is between paves mums cans.

i cant hear anything because im not a blind retard with windows dictation turned on

stick some old computer case lids upside down.

http://mantra.qgl.org/forum/awesome.jpg

paveway post boobss plz

saw the title "racks" and thought this would be about boobies..

im dissapointed...

http://campusbikeshop.com/merchant/975/images/site/Kickstand.jpg

I could build one

this is just asking for more kat.zip racks

get your lazy ass man to build one :P

same...

though that said... he's quite the IT genius it would seem.


buy him a cheap mig welder and ask for a new steel mame cabinet.


this'll be one of those 'mid project' jobs that just happen to slip there on the way 'cause of male awesomeness.


work it girl

If you don't want to secure them, you could always just get four bricks - one for each bike. Brick goes under the pedal - remember the freehub only goes one way, so place the brick so that when the bike tries to fall over, the crank arm can't rotate.

Of course, this won't stop them toppling with strong gusts of wind or if they're knocked hard.

Option 2 if you don't want to lock them is you want two triangle legs, and a cross-bar between the two - like this:
http://zero.racetime.com.au/photos/IMG_1640.jpg

Of course, if you want them locked then yeah, you want a proper rack. And there's no point buying a cheap rack that they can just cut through like an aluminium can cheaper than they can cut through the lock.

Other thing you might consider is two hoops concreted into the ground - one bike on either side of it.

It would just be quicker and easier for me to build it, than to ask my hubby to.

The bikes are kids bikes, not mountain bikes, so they need to e secured by the wheels, not the seat or something higher

Why does it matter what size they are? You adjust the height accordingly, or don't even do that and they just hang off the ground.

Though as said, you haven't said whether or not you plan to lock them.

No, no plan on locking them At the moment they are on their side on the ground. They take up a lot of area which I need to walk in. I want them to simply stand up in another area. They need to be able to stand up without leaning on a wall

hose reel holder.. (might only work if they're boys bikes), hang them up and get them out of the way.. can also work as a way of keeping the bikes away from the kiddies when you don't want them zooming around..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2567300366_862e29dd44.jpg Obiviously you can get much less fancy ones.. just the simple loop on the front would do

last edited by Boxhead at 10:04:49 28/Oct/08

ok f*** this thread, needs more racks

http://members.optusnet.com.au/paveway_s1/DSC00242.jpg

You could park a bike in between those, no problem.

nice tits

well done pave

how much she cost you?

just a cab ride back to hers

They need to be able to stand up without leaning on a wall

what about normal kick stands then?

otherwise here's some reasonably priced options

http://www.bicyclestore.com.au/Repair-Stand-and-Storage-Bicycle-Accessories-c-506.html

http://www.bv.com.au/change-the-world/40529/

You could probably use a couple of blocks of wood and some decent thickness dowel to build something. kick stands sounds the best way to go though ?

In case anyone else was looking for one, I found this - http://www.innovations.com.au/Product_Detail.aspx?ParentCategoryID=164&CategoryID=29&ProductID=76135

just weld your own up
a bit of angle iron and a bit of RHS and top it off with a bit of cold-gal and you'll have a pretty decent bike rack.

why don't bikes have kickstands these days?

I made up my own for the kids bikes a couple of years ago, bend some metal tubing, welded it and got it powder coated at work. Cost me like $15 and about an hour.

Unfortunetely you are a week too late kat. We just threw ours out, we offered it to the family next door and a few other people but no one wanted it. So it went to the dump

Dammit!

Unfortunetely you are a week too late kat.

Kat - #0 12:17pm 27/10/08

wut?



last edited by Triamks at 10:58:36 21/Aug/09

im guessing slinky threw his s*** out some time between 27/10/08 and whenever kat last posted, and that he didn't trawl qgl on the off chance anyone wanted a bike rack ;)