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A specific area for washing my bike. It's basically just a big soak away - a foot deep hole filled with 20mm gravel.
This way I don't get muck all over my patio or any other area for drive when I hose the bike off after a really mucky ride. Hopefully all the mud will just wash down through the gravel.
It's hard work digging holes and filling them in with barrows of gravel. I deserve a beer I think.
Good stuff, ideal after the many manky nightrides before the sunshine returns....
Let's see pictures of your dedicated bike wash facilities please 8)
Pics needed.....amateur 😀
Well done, hope it works. But won't a 300mm deep hole soon fill up with trail mud and stop being a soakaway!
So basically you've built a silt trap that will need cleaning out once full?
Hmmm, perhaps I'll need to modify it a little.
Perhaps a plastic tray with drain holes and a grid over the top so a thin layer of gravel can lay on top, disguising it's utilitarian nature.
Today I have built [s] A specific area for washing my bike[/s] an enormous litter tray for the local cats to poo in
FTFY 🙂
That's why I went for 20mm gravel, too big for cats to use as a litter tray. They'll much prefer the neighbour's 10mm gravel drive.
Damn cats must be harder where I live 👿
My plan is to construct a mini wet room in the garage, when I have a garage. Nothing fancy, basically a shower that's big enough for me and the bike to get in straight from a muddy ride, shower the bike, shower me, take clothes off and put in the washing machine (also in garage), wash me again. Missus need never know.....
Something for you to aim for when your soak away thing is full of mud!
Now that is genius!