muddycoffee
09-04-06, 11:20 AM
Before I bought my SV I needed to make sure I had a ground anchor and concrete standing for the bike, and so I spent 2 years digging out a section of my garden behind my house and preparing the ground. However not sure how big a space I would need for the bike I later went on to enlarge the space so I could turn the bike around there.
Phase 2 was keeping the bike undercover. Now the problem with a shed is the fact that it is inflexible after it is purchased and if you get a bigger bike later which is less manoeverable and more heavy, or if you get two bikes you might have to smash up the shed and get a bigger one or leave one bike outside. And in anycase I needed a pretty big door in a strange place, to get a bike in and out.
A mate of mine gave me a huge tarpaulin and I bought some second hand scaffolding from a local dealer. Scaffolding is very cheap. and you can adjust it for ever if you want to, and add bits to it, it is just like a big meccano.
Also it is so strong that if you want to take the wheels off your bike you can just suspend the bike from the roof using rope.
This is what I was charged for second hand bits. The clips to join the poles are £1 each and the poles are sold by the foot at 16.4pence per foot.
Using this scaffolding I have a shelter which butts right up to the house and to the garden where I dug out and right up to the garden wall. I can ride the bike right in and turn it around inside. A wooden shed this size would probably cost over £600 and so far I have spent just £61 for the original frame, and this week I spent another £25 on some extra bits for the roof so I can put a wooden roof on at some point. And hold the bike up of I need to take a wheel off for a new tyre or anything.
http://upload4.postimage.org/158979/shelter.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/158979/photo_hosting.html)
Phase 2 was keeping the bike undercover. Now the problem with a shed is the fact that it is inflexible after it is purchased and if you get a bigger bike later which is less manoeverable and more heavy, or if you get two bikes you might have to smash up the shed and get a bigger one or leave one bike outside. And in anycase I needed a pretty big door in a strange place, to get a bike in and out.
A mate of mine gave me a huge tarpaulin and I bought some second hand scaffolding from a local dealer. Scaffolding is very cheap. and you can adjust it for ever if you want to, and add bits to it, it is just like a big meccano.
Also it is so strong that if you want to take the wheels off your bike you can just suspend the bike from the roof using rope.
This is what I was charged for second hand bits. The clips to join the poles are £1 each and the poles are sold by the foot at 16.4pence per foot.
Using this scaffolding I have a shelter which butts right up to the house and to the garden where I dug out and right up to the garden wall. I can ride the bike right in and turn it around inside. A wooden shed this size would probably cost over £600 and so far I have spent just £61 for the original frame, and this week I spent another £25 on some extra bits for the roof so I can put a wooden roof on at some point. And hold the bike up of I need to take a wheel off for a new tyre or anything.
http://upload4.postimage.org/158979/shelter.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/158979/photo_hosting.html)