Outdoor Bike Rack

Step 8 She's all done!

The cement will cure after about 6 hours, but don't be fooled! It's not dry yet! It can take up to 48 hours for the cement to be completely dry. You'll know because it will have turned from a dark gray to an almost white color. This thing is pretty strong, so you'll be able to stand on it and kick it and pretty much whatever. Nobody will mess with your bikes now!

In addition, I planted some palm trees on either side of the bike rack to make it even more pretty. It was really easy. The instructions for this are as follows: buy a tree, dig hole, put the tree in the hole, fill in the hole, and then water it. Repeat.

Enjoy the summer!!!

Comments

[Hycro]

Working for Wilcraft, when patching the small holes where the jackhammers punched through the bridges/overpasses, we used a really quick dry cement, called Rapidcrete, and we'd mix it into kind of like a putty/clay and push it into the small holes...it would be dry enough to walk on/park a bike on in a few hours...although, it's probably got some disadvantages where it's so quick setting, and during curing, it gives off little or no heat (unlike fibreglass body fill...which gives of enough heat you could almost burn yourself, depending on the amount that's curing...) so there must be something (I'm assuming though) that's a trade-off...probably not as much strength as regular cement, though it didn't need to be super strong, since it was going to have several inches of road concrete on top of it...that stuff was so hard, that when we went to the second lane, and sawcut the edges of the patches from the first lane, the chunks we hammered out were small and sharp (although, one feller managed to get a few larger chunks out with one of our older jackhammers) I don't know all the specs on the stuff, since I was a mere rubble man, and only really there for that project, as I didn't have any transportation to any different sites...it was a pretty good job though, $12 an hour, for unskilled, untrained labour, and only having a high school diploma (to do the work, for the most part that wasn't required, but to be hired, you needed it...) Alas, having a car would've helped me keep that job...I was hoping they'd redo the bridge that's like a 10 minute bike ride from my home (5 min by car, at about 80Km/h, about 50Mph...) then I could drive my bike to work, leaving at 6:30am to be to work before 7:00am...it may be a little chilly when November comes around, being out at that hour biking...though it don't take me long to get my temperature up, as long as I can keep the cold air from blowing under my clothing...