Cheap 'n Easy Home Made Bike Rack Design

[madmatt]

Bike racks I designed for our camp. About $15 each. Materials (per rack): 10 foot length 1" steel conduit. Two 2 hole steel conduit clamps. Two pieces 3/8 in., 2 ft. long rebar One 2x4" board. Screws. Test height of pole with a large bike, and make sure the rear wheel is about 6 inches off the ground. DIAGONAL holes in each foot for staking in with rebar.

Assembly of the T's is just a long horizontal foot (30 inches) and a long vertical foot - about 38 inches, but hold up a bike and MEASURE the height. You can always cut off a couple inches if it's too tall. Couple 2x4 blocks. Pre-drill and use long screws. Glue if desired.

If you don't like the way the conduit pole sags in the middle, prop it up with a piece of 2x4, secure it to pole at the top with steel plumbers tape (strip of steel with holes in it), and with plumbers tape to a rebar stake at the ground.

(SAME DESIGN WITH THREE LEGS - make three of the wooden T's, and use it with two pieces of pole to make one very long bike rack.)

You hang the bikes up on it with the nose of the saddle. We will also attached 10 rope loops so with weird shaped bikes you can loop it around the handlebars.

[Elderberry]

Here's some other ideas too

http://www.burningman.com/themecamps/bike_racks.html

JK

[Elorrum]

I saw part of a cheap metal futon in the dumpster, and it looked like it would make a great bike rack just needed some triangle 2x4's on each end.

[AntiM]

I saw part of a cheap metal futon in the dumpster, and it looked like it would make a great bike rack just needed some triangle 2x4's on each end.

That's almost what we use (when we remember it). A piece of futon frame propped up with a could pieces of metal um, sign holdy up metal bar thingys. Just happens to have a Valet Parking handicapped sign on it, but that's all the better. And a solar light.