Drive-In Bike Parking

Sometimes a lazy person should think hard and work hard to enjoy laziness.

I am one of those lazy people. One of the routine that I need to kill is parking a bike with kickstand. I had removed my rusty kickstand last week when I finished making this PVC Bike Wheel Stand. It was intended for my Arduino Intelligent Brake Light project, but then the rusty kickstand was annoying my view. I will replace it anyway, so I removed it right away.

Then I am thinking how can I park my bike without a kickstand. Can I just drive-in and park the bike? Yeah.. This is the answer. Please watch this video (^_^ )

I pumped my flat rear wheel for this short video in action and it just go back to flat position in 30 seconds :D

Prepare your PVC pipes and joints :

• 2 x 14"
• 4 x 9.5"
• 4 x 7"
• 2 x 6.5"
• 2 x 4"
• 10 x 2"
• 12 x L-joint
• 4 x T-joint

Others :

• a piece of 18" x 5" hard board (not too thick).
• a barrel bolt door latch.

Tools :

• a drill.

Make sure your door latch is a little bit wider than your board, half an inch at both sides is okay. And also make sure the screws are no longer than the board's thickness. The latch will be on the ground and the board is your drive-in pathway. A long screw will come out at the other side of the board and that means not safe for your wheel. Place the door latch about one third from the top and two third from the bottom of the board. After you have fasten all screws, bent the part where we put a lock (sorry, I don't know the name of that part he.he.) so that it will keep the barrel bolt center. So it is now an unbalanced see-saw.

Drill two L-joint elbows at the size of the door barrel bolt about 1.25" from the elbow's end. Always drill a pilot hole for a more precise position of the hole. Use your 2" pipe to join the "L"s temporary so that they can sit on the floor for drilling as in the photo above.

Now let us put those pipes together. Take a look at the photos in order. I put some notes about the pipe length. For connecting "L" to "L", "L" to "T" and "T" to "T" we use 2" pipe in between.

After you have done with the construction, you can glue each connection for a stronger build. The board is 5" width and it might not be so hard to drive-in. Otherwise.. practice more ;)