Debbie at Wānaka Primary School contacted us regarding building a Food Stand for their Environment Group. Barrie and the team recycled a bunch of pallets into the main body and we made our first attempt at a standard way of reusing bike wheels, something I’ve wanted to do for ages.
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Living in a big mountain biking town we have a lot of 26 inch bike wheels coming through Wastebusters, the local recycling center, the challenge is to mount them without welding up tricky frames.
The idea here was to create a plywood arch and attach a scrap piece of metal plate inside each side to act as the dropout. It works pretty good! There is a bit of flexibility in the system we could remove by bracing between the inside of the two wheel arches.
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We really look forward to seeing this Food Stand in action, with the sweet Shimano Bearings it’ll go really fast 🙂 Many thanks to Mattias for doing the handles and prop, everybody in the volunteer group who worked on it and Karolina, Merle for painting.