Be Excellent To Each Other

Having seen Doc's Wheel Stand Pro I have decided I approve of such things. However on closer inspection at £100 give or take plus the cost of the wheel (which I don't own) my wallet actually yelped in pain.

So, I thought, how hard could it be to make one?

I think I have an old mountain bike down my parents' house which with a small amount of angle grinder can become tubular steel for me. I wondered if any of you lot have had a crack at such things.

There are plenty of wooden ones online, but I liked the tubular steel upright and folding the Wheel Stand Pro has. A hybrid of wooden base plus steel post could work. A project I think, provided that old bike is still there!

Apparently clamping one on an ironing board works.

I think it'd be a shame to cut a bike up for this, when you can buy a 3m length of 25mm round or square section mild steel ERW pipe for about £12, which will be far easier to weld and you won't be constrained by the short lengths of a bike frame.

I could probably make one of these in about 20 minutes (I have a pipe bender and a MIG, and half a dozen lengths of pipe in stock), but I haven't because the wheel is perfectly fine clamped to my ikea coffee table and I don't really need more clutter in the living room.

And a hacksaw is the appropriate tool here, not an angle grinder

Perhaps I should explain, the bike is one that got run over when I was a kid. My dad's mate welded it back up but the triangular section at the back was twisted out of alignment. So it is junk, which is why it may not be there.

And I won't be welding anything. I wear a tie to work, so have no practical skills. Other than an uncanny ability to use the wrong powertool for the wrong job. Part of me is Jeremy Clarkson I think....

Still. If that bike is there, I shall cut it up and then never finish the project. History records several examples of precedent for this sort of behaviour.

Fair enough

Actually you saying this has prompted me to think that perhaps I will make a wheel stand after all, so that I can sit in my comfy ikea chair instead of on the sofa.

I has an idea for a simple design. Could even sell them to gullible beexers for profit! Oh, wait, Doc already bought

You could sell one to me after I have failed to make my own!

I thought of the bike as Doc's stand has a sliding pole in pole arrangement with a quickrelease clamp like bikes have.

I have used wheels in various arrangements (but never the ironing board). The problem I always have is the pedals sliding about and not being fixed relative to the wheel, and the wheel being far too low and too close to me. The Doc's stand solves all of this and really is excellent fun, as opposed to just frustrating like it has always been.

Sigh. Stupid diverting brain. Let me do what I should have been doing!

Bloody hell! Quick work, and looks very serviceable to me!

In other news, that old bike has been tipped, so I may be making something similar!

Well, I can potentially foolishly offer a pre-welded one, supply your own chunk of MDF to screw it down to. Don't know if it'll suit anything other than the logitech wheel though.

I changed the base around so that the pedals are a bit further away, that's better, it's really comfy for driving now, especially with the armrests and everything

Hehe! Well I'll bank that offer for now, as I am holding off buying Forza 3 for now due to poverty*.











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*may not be actual poverty. Terms and conditions apply.

I can provide the measurements from my expensive wheel stand to use for the MS wheel.

The MS wheel has a single front-centre clamp, so I don't think a T-bar would work.

Is this it?



I could weld another short piece on projecting backward from the middle of the cross-piece, so that the clamp has something to grip. In fact that would provide a bit more support for the logitech too, so it's no big deal.

Or screw a small piece of MDF onto the metal. Whatever.

Anyway, it's a bit theoretical unless someone wants one

No, my wheel stand doesn't use that clamp, it attaches to the wheel without it -- and is better for it I think. Details to follow when I'm not pissed.

Bloody hell, sober up man. You've been pissed now for 5 months odd. Disgraceful.

I thought he meant American pissed, so I didn't want to approach the subject for fear of retribution.

Oh yeah. Well, five months on, I can confirm the stand is wheely good.

Tsk, those aren't the details you promised. What are you, pissed or something?

Yeah, calm the fuck down Rich. There's no need to get all worked up about it. Just give us the inside scoop.