New Bike Rack

Our garage reorganization required a new bike rack.  I had admired very much the rack made by my brother-in-law, Bill.  But we needed the bikes to sit at 45 degrees to the wall, which required a redesign and some special order pipe fittings.

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It may look like some of the upright pieces are not perfectly vertical: I must have tilted the camera when taking the picture.  And the curve in the upper back cross piece is there by design:  having the pipe under tension increases the friction at the joints and make the whole structure more sturdy.  (Yeah, that's the ticket.)

Almost all of the kids helped with construction.  There are a lot of little pieces of pipe that were cut with a miter box.  And the joints were assembled with a mallet, no glue.