Hacks / Bodges

So clever !

🧛‍♀️

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Anyone know what this sort of mount is called, or whether there are alternatives that might be a bit chunkier? It’s part of a handlebar mounted bell, and im trying to bodge some sort of fixing for a dynamo light on an omnium rack.

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Some sort of pipe clamp or strap clamp with a boss?

This is my latest workshop bodge. Used a destroyed rear triangle and axle as a plier rack. I'll have to make another as even the 148 Boost spacing isn't quite enough for all pliers and cutters.

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King Cage USB?

It’s a hose clamp with a M5 threaded nut

I think the frame mounts for Kryptonite locks have something similar inside? Someone is bound to have one of those they don't use? Fairly sure I have a couple kicking about.

Nice! How is the remainder of the frame attached to the wood?

The dropouts have a hard foam inside from the molding process so one screw into each side and a blob of epoxy for good measure.

That type of pipe clamp seems to be called a UNEX clamp

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I've got this for my dynamo/pizza rack, aside from tightening it all up so it points to a consistently good part of the road, has anyone got any suggestions for improvement?

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consistently good part of the road

Doesn't exist in the UK.

When you can't decide between flat bars and drop bars:

Such cables. Are both sets of levers connected to their respective controls?

So close 🥲

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Zip tie?

Chuck it in a vice for quick game of "Crushy-squash", or hit it with a hammer or something. This is the bodges thread, bodge it!

Meh, just enlarge the holes a bit: no need to try and do just one just to the outside, as you’ll probably slip and fuck it or yourself up. Not like there’s going to be a great amount of weight on it.

I would bring the closest edges of the holes towards each other a bit with a small round file. Trying to bend cast aluminium might end in tears (pun intended).

I guess this belongs here:

Has anyone seen a bar/rack combo like this fitted to a BMX using a suitable MTB stem?
https://www.bricklanebikes.co.uk/blb-flat-rat-hanlebar-rack-matt-black

I'm thinking a BMX based delivery bike could be fun for errands at work.

I'm thinking a BMX based delivery bike could be fun for about 5 minutes.

The weight, lack of gears and wheel size would get hella old hella quick I reckon.

That's exactly what I thought. I like my BMX but hate riding it for anything that isn't the fun stuff it's made for.

Yeah, even when I've taken a bmx and made it pedal-able (extended seattube, double decker tallbmx) the eight of them by themselves is enough to make any incline a serious toil. I would not want to add any cargo weight to them!

There's always le Petit Porteur...
(though it's at least an order of magnitude more expensive than just buying a rack)

This is very cool! Yeah sadly more expensive than bodging some kind of rack on the old BMX we have in the warehouse but much more rideable.