How to make a do-it-yourself bike repair rack

The issue of storing a bicycle in a small city apartment often causes a lot of trouble for fans of two-wheeled vehicles. This is especially true during the winter season, when most cyclists postpone trips until the warmer season.

A variety of bike stands are designed to solve the problem of storage in the most optimal way. They can have a wide variety of designs, be made from different materials and have different functionality.

Despite the fact that most parts, assemblies and assemblies of a bicycle are made of metal, plastic and other sufficiently strong materials, a two-wheeled car is still quite vulnerable.

In particular, a long downtime "on foot" (especially in winter) can negatively affect the quality of the bicycle rubber, which tends to crack and deform. In addition, a bicycle takes up a lot of space, especially when it comes to a small apartment or room.

Thus, a bike rack has two main functions:

• the ability to store the bike in the right place;
• storage safety for knots and mechanisms of the "iron horse".

Let's take a closer look at what bike racks are and how they cope with their functions.

The classic bike stand is a structure that allows the rear wheel to be suspended in suspension. It can be made of metal, plastic, wood or other materials. The stand can be square, trapezoidal, U-shaped or triangular.

The rear hub of the bike fits into a special frame structure. The point of using a stand is to keep the bike stable while eliminating constant contact between the rear tire and the floor. In this case, the front wheel is usually dismantled.

In many cases, it is the only acceptable solution, especially when it comes to small apartments. A special hook, which can be driven or screwed into the wall, allows you to store the bike in a way that takes up as little space as possible and does not interfere with anyone. This hook allows you to use the "dead" space. For example, behind a door or a wall in a hallway. With the hook, the bike can even be suspended from the ceiling!

There is a wide variety of types and types of special bicycle hooks on the market today. Most of them are designed in such a way that the bike is suspended from the frame. But there are modifications that provide for suspension by the wheel or grip on the saddle.

This stand is well suited for storing your bike on a balcony, in a garage or in an apartment. The fold-out design makes it easy to move the stand, and when not needed, it takes up little space. Most fold-out stand designs are designed to accommodate a rear wheel that fits into the structure.

There are other two-wheeled vehicle storage systems. For example, special racks attached to the wall. Some models are designed to hold two or more bicycles.

Let's take the liberty of compiling a kind of hit-parade of bicycle storage systems. Here are some comparative descriptions of the most popular ones.

The X17 stand is one of the most popular floor standing models. It is a triangle-shaped structure of metal tubes, on top of which the rear wheel hub is placed.

It is very light and takes up a minimum of space. Designed for bicycles with wheel diameters from 20 to 28 inches. This stand can be used in almost any environment. It is suitable not only for storage, but also for minor repairs.

It would be more correct to call this model not a stand, but a bicycle rack. It is a curved structure that fits the entire bike with the wheels resting on special rollers. This allows you to store the bike in an upright position, which, during long periods of inactivity, causes minimal damage to the tires and the mechanism of the iron horse.

Despite the fact that the dimensions of the rack are quite impressive (700x200x70 mm), its weight is only 2 kilograms. This makes it easy to transport the stand, and its form factor is designed in such a way that it itself takes up a minimum of space.

Practical, lightweight and compact stand made of 4 mm sheet metal. The sheet is bent at an angle of 90 degrees, and the upper part is equipped with two rubberized pins-holders. The rear or front wheel of the bike is inserted between the pins and keeps the bike upright.

This stand can be used absolutely everywhere. Moreover, you can even carry it with you and use it, for example, while relaxing on bike rides or other "pokatushki". The stand is designed for bicycles with a diameter of 26 inches.

Of course, the choice of a stand largely depends on the conditions in which the bike will be stored. Placing a two-wheeled vehicle on a balcony or in a garage is one thing.

And a completely different matter is the storage of an iron horse in the corridor of a small apartment. But in any case, the amateur cyclist tends to make his choice, considering the following criteria:

• strength and durability of the material from which the stand is made;
• stability, including with a bicycle placed in it;
• the most affordable price.

As for those stands and stands, which were discussed in this article, the prices for these models are approximately as follows:

• stand X17 can be purchased in Moscow for about 600 rubles;
• the cost of the Bike Hand YC-97 model is approximately 2,200–2,400 rubles;
• the PRO 26 stand can be purchased for 700-800 rubles.

In order to choose a stand, you need to decide on the place where the bike will be stored. And already, taking into account the allocated area, go to the store. In addition, when choosing, in addition to dimensions, the following nuances must be taken into account:

• Manufacturing material. Preference should be given to metal and durable plastic. These are durable and reliable materials that ensure a long service life.
• Design. It can be very different. It is important that the bike and the stand take up as little space as possible during storage.

In principle, it is quite possible to make a stand for the rear wheel on your own. It is best to use metal or wood for this. True, in the case of metal, most likely you will have to use welding. But everyone can make a wooden stand.

In order to make a stand for the rear wheel of a bicycle with your own hands, you must perform the following steps:

• To begin with, a rectangular frame is hammered together with nails, which will serve as the base of the stand. The width of the frame should be slightly larger than the hub of the rear wheel of the bicycle.
• After that, two slats are nailed from the inside, which will act as holders. The rails should be 3-5 cm longer than half the diameter of the bicycle wheel. The distance between the rails must exactly match the width of the sleeve.
• For more careful storage, the holder rails can be upholstered with felt or rubber.
• Here, in principle, that's all - the stand is ready. The ends of the sleeve are placed on the holder rails.In this case, the wheel does not touch the ground, and the bicycle is in a stable position.

Thus, bike storage can be organized in a variety of ways. You can hang your bike from the wall or even from the ceiling using a special hook. You can buy a special rack or stand. Or you can not spend money at all and make a stand for the rear wheel of an iron horse with your own hands.

Amateurs cyclists who have to repair or maintain a bicycle know how hard it is to do it without a special lifting rack to fix the bicycle at a comfortable height during repairs.

Professional racks are expensive, but in the meantime, you can make a simple home-made product, materials for which will be the remnants of pvc or plastic pipes, for example, after repairs.

Diameter of pipes and fittings (PVC 1 1/2 PPR 40)

• Pipe 38 cm long - 4 pcs. (for the base)
• Pipe 90 cm long - 2 pcs. (for legs)
• Pipe 41 cm long - 1 pc. (bottom support)
• Pipe 130 cm long - 1 pc. (retractable support)
• Pipe (PVC 2 ″ PPR 50-63) 8 cm - - 1 pc. (for support)
• Tee - 3 pcs.
• 90 degree angle - 2 pcs.
• Plug - 3 pcs.
• Crosspiece - 1 pc.
• adhesive for PVC pipes

Making brackets for fastening a bicycle to a rack is the most laborious operation at first glance. But in reality - there is nothing complicated here.

The upper support is made from a tee. The end part of the tee is cut to the radius of the pipe and glued with pvc glue.
For gluing the support, a tee cut in half was used.

The bottom support is made from a cross. A piece of tubing with diameters of 2 inches for pvc or 50-63 for PPR is glued to the crosspiece. The length of the tube is 8 cm.

Here I think everything is clear to everyone at once, soldering and gluing pipes is one of the simplest operations.
Tubing sizes are shown above in the list of materials.

To maintain alignment when gluing or soldering, you can apply a mark on the pipe and fittings.

After the stand is glued or soldered. We carry out finishing and adjustment to the bike frame.
We solder pipes with 2 corners, with 2 tees. do not forget about the stubs.

We cut the hole for the lower carriage with the help of an engraver.

Don't forget to adjust the clearance between the bottom support mount and the bike sprocket.

After all the adjustments, the bike repair rack is ready.

The design is not without flaws - but the main thing, as they say, is the idea, if anyone has any wishes and suggestions, we add it to the comments.

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I want to tell you about my version of the bike rack. This is a very cheap option, although not the most functional. The main thing is that it can be made at home with a minimum set of tools. I have owned the rack for over a year now, and its reliable performance deserves a project share.

There are a huge variety of repair bike racks, but it just so happens that it is not always possible to choose something from the options on sale. Full-fledged racks are expensive, and the purchase can only be justified for professional use in bike shops. There are inexpensive options for the rear wheel, but they are functionally limited only by adjusting the transmission and rear brake. Many are trying to assemble a more or less successful analogue of a full-fledged rack based on the available materials and technologies. But the degree of accessibility is different for everyone: someone has a milling machine and a welding machine in the garage, and someone modestly eats out existence in an apartment, far from the machining site, like a track from a downhill track. Actually, the presented project may be interesting for the inhabitants of the urban jungle.

While doing the rack, I set myself the following restrictions:

1. A minimum of dirty technological processes - everything must be adapted for apartment production. Those. no welding, cutting with a grinder and other things.I managed only by drilling, tapping and working a little with a file. The pipes were purchased from a cut shop.

2. Minimum budget, even at the expense of functionality. When the rack was being assembled, I was not yet sure how much I needed it. I consider the funds invested in it to have worked one hundred percent! The costs were only 350 UAH (without a tray) for those good old days when the dollar was at 8. It turns out $ 44.

3. No orders for custom parts. The turners who worked for the bottle were translated as a class, and therefore any non-standard parts would hit the budget hard. As a result, I got by with components from furniture fittings, fasteners for pipes and standard hardware. The only non-standard detail is 4 plates 40x12x1. In which case they can be made from drywall fasteners. Oh yes! I also hung a magnetic tray for tools and fasteners on the rack - I was on the farm.

Here's what happened:

The stand allows you to:

1. Adjust derailleurs, front and rear brakes.

2. Remove / install wheels, seatpost, trunk, steering wheel and other parts.

3. Store and maintain the bike without wheel contact with the floor. Repairs in apartments are different for everyone, and it is not advisable to put a bicycle with winter studded tires on the floor.

The stand is height adjustable. Not very convenient, but doable with a mounted bike.

From design constraints:

1. The stand does not allow performing power operations such as unscrewing the carriage, although you can lower the mount down so that the bike stands on its wheels, and the stand will only support it.

2. The rack was made for attaching bicycles to the upper tube with the lower cable routing. If the bike has top harness, then there may be problems with the clamps securing the tube from the top. In reality, for most tasks, they are not needed at all (the exception is wheel replacement). The distance between the mounting brackets can be changed. In household use, the bike rarely changes, so this is not a problem, but in the workshop there is no place for the presented rack.

3. The stand is designed for 30 kg, it should bend plastically at 45 kg, but I have not tried it.

In 2 minutes, the rack is disassembled to a more or less compact state, although in practice it stands in my apartment all the time.

As a conclusion, it is worth noting that from a technical point of view, I worked out the project quite meticulously, right down to strength calculations. Therefore, I would like to warn against trying to create something similar from furniture pipes without thorough preparation: furniture pipes are rather flimsy, so you need to design the rack wisely.

If someone is interested in the project to such an extent that he wants to repeat it, I can unearth sketches with dimensions and give more detailed recommendations for manufacturing.

A bike rack is a wonderful thing in repairing and storing a two-wheeled horse. Sooner or later, periodic maintenance of the bike can get bored due to its inconvenience. In the meantime, without proper attention, the bike will gradually deteriorate. How to be? Here, a bike stand comes to the rescue - a special device that fixes the bike in a comfortable position and allows you to slowly clean it, repair it and store it indoors.

The market generously provides customers with a wide range of models of bike racks of various designs. A simple option is to buy this gadget. "Is it possible to do it yourself?" - the persistent amateur will ask. Quite. Now we will analyze in detail what and how to do.

The Triangle Rear Wheel Stand is a classic bike rack. Sometimes even this simple device is enough to solve the problems of how to reliably put the bike on once and for all.

The design consists of U-shaped parts paired in a triangle, clamps for the upper frame stays or clips for the bushing. Let's take a look at how to make a frame mount stand.It's much easier than reinventing a clamp on the wheel itself.

• fittings;
• metal plates;
• bending machine;
• welding machine;
• spray paint + primer;
• rubber plates.

At the first stage, a drawing is drawn up with dimensions: note the lengths of the stop (the thrust part of the U-shaped part), side edges and "tails" - plates will subsequently be fixed on them.

Using a bending machine, make products according to dimensions. The bend of the ribs must be made more so that they are at an angle to the stop. "Tails" look strictly vertical. We make sure that both parts are identical.

Then they are welded along the tails to each other. Before welding, carefully adjust the products (it is clear that they will not be absolutely perfect, but you need to try).

We take metal plates and prepared rubber pads. Place the rubber bands on the plates, and then warm up until they stick to the metal. This is necessary so that the frame does not scratch on the metal of the plates when installing the bike. On the edge of the plates, we leave a little "bare" metal for welding.

Weld two metal plates - holders on the sides to the welded tails. You should get the following product:

Even when looking at the picture, it is noticeable that the rack does not look very nice. To fix this, we prime and carefully paint over the product with a spray can of paint. That's it, the stand is ready.

A wooden stand can be made in the same way as the previous metal stand. But now we will consider a more complex option - with inclined beams on the cross.

Tools and materials:

• boards;
• wooden plate (for beams);
• saw, hacksaw, jigsaw;
• drill;
• self-tapping screws;
• grinding machine;
• varnish.

Bicycle stand structural elements:

• stops - two parallel boards;
• crossbar - stops are attached to it, the whole structure is supported on them;
• inclined beams in the form of hockey sticks (acute angle between short and long parts - 60 degrees).

Before "cutting out" the boards, the stand should be drawn on paper with the dimensions indicated. On average, the length of the beam will be approximately equal to the length of the frame, and the thrust part will be 1.5 to 2 times the diameter of the wheel. The crossbars protrude on the sides of the stops so that the stand does not then loosen under the weight of the bike. The distances between the stops and the inclined beams are slightly more than the thickness of the wheels.

Let's start assembling:

1. Cut the boards to the desired size. Use a jigsaw to cut the beams and smooth the corners.
2. Using self-tapping screws, using a drill, connect the stops and crossbars. The result is a cross - the base of the stand.
3. Sequentially fasten the inclined beams to the stops with short ends on the outer sides.
4. The stand is almost ready, it remains to "tie" the parallel beams with small transverse boards so that the bike can stay in the stand. For the entire length of the beam there are 3 - 4 pieces, one of them must be at the upper end.
5. Sand and varnish the product.

The wooden structure can be used for both storage and repair. True, in the second case, dirt can eat into the tree and spoil the appearance.

Moving on to the last type of stand that you can make yourself - a tripod tripod design.

We use an ordinary metal pipe as a tripod, and fittings for the legs. A welding machine and a bending machine are required, as is the case with the manufacture of a triangular stand. Suspension requires two metal plates, a drill, a bolt and a hook.

Progress:
1. Cut three identical reinforcing bars.

2. Bend on both sides: tails - strictly vertical for welding to a tripod, stops - horizontally. It is not necessary to make stops if the legs were made strictly of the same length - the structure will stand evenly so.

3. Weld the legs to the tripod with the tails.

4. Bend the plates in a semicircle. Leave the edges. The semicircles must be fully sized to fit the post.

5. Use a drill to make holes in the edges of the plates for the bolt and hook.

6.Lean the plates against the tripod, on one side screw them in with the bolt until they stop. If the fastener does not hold and falls off, slip rubber gaskets between it and the post.

7. Hang the bike hook on the other side of the bike rack.

The tripod floor stand is now complete. We check it in action - the fasteners should not fall off under the weight of the bike. Otherwise, you need to tighten it or make a new one. On request, the structures can be painted.

Homemade designs will not be as light and mobile as purchased ones, but they will be suitable for use in one place. It is not difficult to make a bicycle rack with your own hands, but a good amount of money is saved on its purchase, and the repair and storage of a two-wheeled horse will become much more convenient.

Do-it-yourself bike rack

There was a need to take up bicycles. Adjust switches, brakes. In general, scheduled maintenance.
It was not possible to find bicycle workshops in my area, it was a long way to go to the usual place where the bicycle masters hang out - Sokolniki. By car with two bicycles crap. On its own, even more crap.

In short, what's so difficult about it? All these settings can be done by yourself. You just need to hang out the rear wheel.

1. Two bicycles eager to get busy

2. Two one and a half meter pieces of reinforcement 10.

3. Using a homemade bending machine, do it - time. Due to the imperfection of the machine, I had to tinker with such a double bend.

4. Next, I bend the tops of the arcs. Here it took a long time and stubbornly to adjust the correct angles in two planes. There were no drawings, everything is done by eye. It was necessary that these folds in the final product were strictly vertical.

7. I bend the deflection at the bases so that it stands on 4 points, and not on 2 strips.

10. Installation of the bike is due to the lugs clinging to the trunk. This was the most versatile setup for two different bikes. It was not possible to fasten the nut and the eccentric, the seats were too different.

11. Posted fine. The fixation is dead, no bouncing or shifting.

But what if the bike is without a trunk? Well, these two are always with trunks.

14. I reduce the width of the ears. This makes it easier to insert where necessary.

Greetings!
I finally overcame my laziness and decided to write about new devices from the tea room)) Let's start with the cycling theme.
So today I'm going to talk about a bike stand for repair and customization. Details further

Small digression:
this summer, my rear derailleur fell apart on the road (because it was so bad), I bought a new one and put it on, but after I set it up (lifting the saddle with one hand, switch gears with the other, and kicking the pedal) I decided that such a stand would be very helpful in such a situation.

The site indicates that the color is sent randomly. Well, I got the color of childish surprise (sadness-pichal).

The thing is weighty, the plastic looks good.

Let's take a closer look at the details

Thanks to the teeth, the structure moves apart in steps, and in the unfolded state it will not corrode (if the handle is tightened)

Now we will put a bicycle on this structure.

By the way, at first it was kept free, I had to bend the stand a little.