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What do you get if you take an old piece of wood, a quill stem, a band saddle clamp, some old drop bars and a horrible cheap leather saddle you never liked anyway, and set about them with steel wool, brasso, the drill and extra long screws?
The bullhorn wall rack!
The idea isn't mine, but the execution was. It can certainly be improved upon with access to an angle grinder and a drill bit capable of countersinking aluminium.
Nice, but too much yellow bar tape ;-)
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Yellow tape handy if you have an other half who doesn't like you going out for late night rides so you can put the bike back in place with only the aid of moonlight ;-)
I like that a lot - a mechanical moose about your hoose. My anglegrinder has sadly bitten the dust - I have countersinks but genuinely don't know if they'd work for aluminium... fwiw I used hammer in fixings for my bike rack thing - if you hit a brick they work well and a are a piece of cake to get in
Looks fantastic! You should sell them!
ks fantastic! You should sell them!
Thanks Dave - actually you can buy these (more professionally made than mine!) but you're talking about £140. Bike Station do something similar for £40, but with the stem welded onto a supporting frame, so cosmetically it looks rather industrial. Also uses Aheadset parts which I think lack the elegance of the forged quill stem.
It's a plaster-on-brick wall, which I drilled well into the brickwork and have used extra long screws to go through the stem, the wood and into the wall.
I thought about bolting the stem directly to the wood, but that was too shoogly. I thought about screwing the stem directly into the wall, but then it would place the bike too close to the wall and also risk crushing the plaster. The wood works well as a base as the metal can crush slightly as it tightens and spreads the load across the wall.
The rawlplugs are rated for 30kg into brick and plaster, and the bike weighs ~9kg so I'm fairly confident it will hold up!
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