I'm not the sort of person to make sweeping statements about myself. However, I'm here to play and I'll be bringing with me rando build projects and some pseudo science.
I'm super impressed with your problem-solving, specifically the process of finding the angle that your fork needed to be mounted so that the handlebars wouldn't take up too much room. I'm building my own bike rack for the back of my pickup and used your design as inspiration. I'm still trying to figure out how you cut that angle with a miter saw.
Sorry for the late reply, I have a compound mitre saw. I can simultaneously set mitre and bevel. How did your project go? I'm keen to see photos if you have any!
Thanks for the question! My van already had a ply floor in it (large flange rivets secure the ply to the body work). I added more rivets to the ply to ensure the ply was very secure. Then I used slotted angle internally for the length of the drawer. I screwed into the carcass sides and straight down to the ply floor. I took some care to make sure the carcass was square so the draw would slide properly and both locking mechanisms operated correctly once it was all screwed down. I wanted to be able to remove it easily, but never have 😜
That would be the dream. King swears he'll never paddle again, I'm confident I can twist his arm. I've got a 3-4 nighter planned on flat water, but I haven't done much about organising it. I have a white water kayak now, planning to brush up on some skills over summer.
It changes every trip. Often they just tuck down the left side and that's fine. When we have been super loaded I packed them concentrically axle to axle with a pull noodle cut and taped in a 300 mm circle to so they held the rotors and hubs off one another but the noodle transferred load through the spokes in stead.
You're a genius! The design details and engineering are above and beyond. Thank you for the video. Now I don't need to buy a bulky hitch bike rack. I should be able to fit 3+ bikes in the back of my 4runner
Yeah, it's marine carpet, I just bought it from Bunnings in Australia. If you're overseas it is a fuel resistant water resistant carpet. It probably wouldn't matter inside the van, but I just wanted it to be durable in case I spilled chain lube on it.
You know what, I hadn't. I had seen them but never thought about trying to deploy one myself. The challenge is a secondary mounting point. Most racks rely on stabilisation high on the seat stay. Perhaps I could modify the fasteners on a top linkage pivot. Time for a lathe? 🤣😄
Spot on! I didn't like the support width of the legs of the tetra rack, seemed like it would point load the carbon a bit too much. I'll look up the others. I had no idea Thule made one. The Aeroe spider looked nice when I saw it advertised on Instagram.
Hello guys, if you want to watch my canoe experience on the Bosphorus in İstanbul you can watch on this link 😊ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W6Sf0Djc9f0.html&ab_channel=%C3%96zerSevin%C3%A7
Here's a couple of things I got lucky with, it's JUST tall enough my tool box fits, and the compartments are JUST long enough my pump fits. I didn't bother measuring the height of the toolbox because I just made the drawer as tall as I reasonably could (I still wanted to have wiggle room to carry taller bikes if needed - but a tie down strap would easily compress a fork for transit too).
Nice rack, looks good. Did you ever upload the next video where you solved the problem of the angled fork legs? I was looking for it to see how you did that, I've got the same problem and wanted to see your take on it Thanks
Andy, I haven't yet. I've been editing an upcoming video from an overnight canoe camping adventure. It's been a lot of work. To your point solving angled legs in a fixed way is easy, solving them in an adjustable way.... well I came up with something great! I'll atleast get a photo up for you.
@@gunthergeenens4475 hahaha yeah. I spent so much effort on the canoe trip video that I really have just taken time to go riding and such. I take it you're a +1 to see the angled fork leg solution?
Thanks for the hot tip. I'm personally all about making great things to watch and having fun along the way rather than paying to be "seen". One of my other videos had 11k views and I'm pumped! More "success" than I'd ever hoped for sharing my broengineering adventures.
Andrew, tanks for the comment. It's an interesting thought. Two questions: where would you mount it and brace it from the main triangle? And second if I used this same design on a hard tail, how much more or less stress do you think the seat stay would see? I haven't don't any maths on it, I'm the wrong kind of engineer hahaha
Frothing my man, that's so good! I hope it turns out great. Send some pictures when you're done, I'd love to see it!!! In a few months I'll get the video up about dealing with different head angle bikes. If you need assistance with that in the mean time be sure to hit me up. 😁😁
Thanks so much David! Stay tuned for an obligatory "1 year on" or "life with my bike slide" video ;) Actually, I'll have to do a video on the mechanism I came up with that accounts for random head angles, super neat!
It’s a useful way to condense 100 hours of build time into 16 minutes of video. A buildlapse of me editing the video for 100 hours would be substantially more boring!
Thanks for the question! Both were 1 kg. A larger one definitely has more capacity which is a good thing, but it takes longer to pump up. High pressure is more important than high capacity. 2 kg would probably work a bit better but is gonna take twice as long to pump up. It’s a bit of a trade off. I wouldn’t want less than 1 kg and I think I wouldn’t want more than 2 kg. The higher pressure extinguisher definitely works better. Of course higher pressures and larger volumes are both more dangerous. I might try a larger one and report back!
Yo, I got all of them from Pirtek, but I found most of them available on tubefit.com.au I liked Pirtek because I went in there with a rough idea of what I needed and problm solved it with what was available. Disclaimer: The following is provided in the interests of helping people learn. It is important to understand working with high pressure gases (including air) is extremely dangerous and should not be undertaken without appropriate training and risk mitigations. The charging side: No 35 1/8 Female Tee No 27 1/8 Hex nipple No 64 Solid Male Taper Plug 1/8 BSPT Schrader tank valve 1/8 male No 64 Solid Male Taper Plug 1/8 BSPT Discharging side: No 72 M12x1/8 Fem BSP M+F adaptor Oring to seal parallel M12 fitting in fire extinguisher No 24 M16 x 1/4 Fem BSP Red Bush P3 1/4 X 1/8 MALE TAILPIECE Rock on brother! Stay tuned, I'm about to start filming the next fire extinguisher project!
