DIY bicycle beer rack

1 year ago
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No piano music in this video. This is not ASMR, whatever that is.

- Scrap square-section steel, 1mm (top section), 2mm thick other sections
- Stick-welded with cheap stick welder from Amazon; I ground my welds down but didn't use body filler
- Strong enough to carry enough beer for at least 2 days (I can sit on it and lift my feet off the ground); the bolts holding it to the bike will shear off long before the rack fails
- Sharp edges not rounded off (for a good reason)
- Not suitable for camping or panniers or commuting or any sort of cyclist activities; only suitable for carrying boxes of beer (with a ratchet strap)
- Designed to hold load forward of rear axle, for handling reasons (hills)
- Designed to not deflect to the side; load doesn't have to be symmetrical
- No modifications to frame; affixed using bolts in existing lugs plus the hole for the rear reflector
- Made in one day - in my opinion it's not worth doing evening courses in metalwork or spending all day watching videos on how someone with tens of thousands of pounds worth of workshop equipment and an apprenticeship behind him show a hipster audience how to do stuff properly when all you want to do is lug 72 cans of Stella back home from the supermarket...

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