Garden Bike Driveway?

I would go for the narrow path of slabs, laid on a mortar base, then the gravel all around.

Originally Posted by Mogs

I would go for the narrow path of slabs, laid on a mortar base, then the gravel all around.

& A SHED?

[SoulKiss]

One obvious thing missing from all these suggestions......

A huge fscking ground anchor.

Be a shame to dig up your garden, go to all that work and expense and NOT have a bike to parl on it.

I like the sheet of metal with the anchor bolted to it, then buried with the bike sitting on the metal approach.

Just a thought.....

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

One obvious thing missing from all these suggestions......

A huge fscking ground anchor.

Be a shame to dig up your garden, go to all that work and expense and NOT have a bike to parl on it.

I like the sheet of metal with the anchor bolted to it, then buried with the bike sitting on the metal approach.

Just a thought.....

Good point and well made! If laying blocks / slabs, then concrete in ground anchor then lay slabs / blocks over to form bike hardstanding. Unless you have a shed / garage tucked away round there.....

The bike is kept at the side of the house on pavement slabs and anchored from 3 places. Access to the side of the house is only through the rear garden door which is pad locked. To get to that door you need to be able to get through the parking lot which is controlled with gates with a fob.

Then u'd have to do ur job without setting off the bike alarm, or the motion detect camera with 2 massive lights to it as well.

Hence I wouldn't worry too much about it at the moment.

Forgot to mention the lovely staffy that sleeps very close to it

If you're going to ride over it, gravel is fine (I used to love riding up my gf's parent's gravel drive and spinning the back wheel up on it ). If you're planning on pushing it, it tends to sink into it, if it's any real depth and also your feet can't really get purchase on it. Thicker grain, or it'll get stuck in the tread of your boots and make an annoying high heel like clicking when you walk!

If you have to push it, I'd go for the "grasscrete" stuff embee suggests - aesthetically it looks fine-close to grass, but it's easy to push bikes on it. You will get a bit of mud on your boots when using it though.

grasscrete!!! superb!

now where to get it from

Here's the kind of stuff mentioned in the above threads i.e. the non-concrete versions.

http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...=ground+guard#

You should be able to get some from a local builders merchant that carries landscaping products.

Cheers,

Garry

hey all again

thought I'd let you know what I decided to go for in the end as it might be usefull to fellow garden riders.

After a lot of searching I found many places that do similar things to grasscrete or groundguard. Problem with most of them was cost so I managed to get me sorted for £108.

I went with this and the above cost included £25 pnp and some securing nails as my garden has a slope upwards. The area to cover is 6m long and 50cm wide (width of 1 panel).

I shall let you know of the results once I get it fitted.

BTW it sounds quite easy to fit as well. Just dig out the area you want it fitted and lay a bed of river sand and compact it to form a sold base. Then lay that on top and secure it then fill it with either gravel or soil to get grass back.

That looks promising. I found the cost of the other stuff a bit scary when I looked it up.

Good luck

Garry