Coat Rack From Bicycle Parts!

I work at a community bike shop on Sundays and Mondays. It's a lot of fun, but with all the cold weather we had a problem. We were in desperate need of a coat rack. Mainly because we wanted to sit down every once in a while, and all the chairs were piled high with coats.
Meanwhile there were scrap bike frames- bent, broken, and unusable- piling up in the corner. We needed a solution, lest we all go crazy.
We were saving the the bike frames for tall bikes and other cool projects. Then it occurred to us, other cool projects! That could include a coat rack.

What follows is the sort-of documentation of what we did, and how you can make your own awesome coat rack from bike bits.

If you attempt this please use bike parts that nobody is going to use, or we will be sad.

Also, if you happen to live in Boone, then come get a bike, they're piling up and now's the time to get 'em!

PLEASE NOTE: I had a terribly hard time taking pictures that did this thing justice, and the pictures that captured it better are still on Quints camera. Please message Quint and tell him to give pictures to me.

Step 1 Aquire a pile of junk, and permission

It's not that hard, you just need a pile of bike parts that no one will be using. Be sure to double check, triple check, and even call someone in charge to make sure no one will be upset that you used a certain bike part.
Better to ask a question six or seven times than use the wrong parts and get asked to leave the shop, and never come back, because you just welded parts from Quints brand new 2-stroke engine.

We used:

-Random sections of pipe

-An old huffy frame

-An old wheel

-Water bottle mounts

-Washers (tiny ones)

-Handle bar ends? (those funny things that stick up, that we never put back on the bikes...)

Comments

[Sunbanks]

That's cool! I want one :D

[KentsOkay]

This is awesome!