I’ve simplified WARDROBEZILLA slightly. Clear internal depth is now 650mm and the door opening is approx 1450mm.

Feel free to take the piss.

Base now sits on semi buried concrete blocks with one central post concreted in for stability.

50 x 50mm frame with 75 x 75mm door post and lintel. 50 x 50mm roof joists at 400mm centres.

9mm WBP ply cladding. 18mm floor and shelf.

TGV cladding. doors 25 x 100mm frame, 9mm ply then clad. Roof 18mm ply with felt covering, drip lines front and rear, air gaps all round.

Thanks all.

Does it have to be a straight rectangle

Yep. There’s only really one place for it. I had considered a roughly triangular one squeezed into an odd corner but the existing flowerbed has since been developed so that’s out now.

Where did you study? I was at Bucks 15 years ago

Snap! Graduated from the furniture and related product design course in ’98 :-)

The depth is somewhat tight, but with front wheels out, pedals off, bars turned and a bit of topping and tailing and it should be fine.

It’s designed around maximum 1.8m lengths

Go on show us some of that !

Unfortunately that was 15 years ago, it’s been buildings ever since.

Maybe avoid shed distractions in the future and then you may get the seating bowl design right the first time

Cheapskate contractors = value engineering. It was right first time, now it’s a bit worse. :(

are you building that around your 3 bikes?

It’s going to be tight inside but the will fit. Looking at the door opening again it might be impossible to get the bikes in though. :oops:

Thanks everyone.

butch wardrobe.

I do have a degree in furniture design, and a very small garden.

numerous comments from wrightyson

Internal ply cladding is not a bad plan, I looked at raising the rear but angling the tops of the side panels confused me. I’ll look again in more detail tomorrow. The front an rear of the roof are 15mm off the cladding, air gap and drip line combined.

Go on humour me- how long did it take you to draw those

Couple of hours at work this afternoon, including a bit of research into timber sizes and while redesigning the seating bowl of a stadium.

Dolan preffisio comes in a 511mm top tube, takes guards and racks, is fairly racy and can be had new for just over £600.

Tempted by one myself.

In the middle, in front of the shed? It’s a fig tree, I had a great crop off it last year.
The one right at the back is a plum tree, unfortunately on my neighbours plot.

Mine’s coming along, had it almost exactly a year.

Mine’s noisy as hell but that’s down to a nonexistent maintenance regime and winter commuting.

5’9″ on a 52cm (53.5 TT) track champion. Could probably do with one size up, definitely a longer stem and the track forks to make it a little less twitchy.

Yesterday at Herne Hill

Brakes schmakes.

I’m pretty confident there’s nothing major wrong, but apparently saying it’ll be fine is not enough to appease the girlfriend. Probably worth the cost of a surveyor to make my home life a little more bearable.

what are the strongest painkillers one can acquire?

On prescription, Tramadol. 6 weeks of delicious comfortable fizziness after breaking my collar bone and 5 ribs. You don’t want to be on them for too long though.

This is entirely by the by, but I recently sold a 1996 900 turbo auto convertible. Bonkers, utterly bonkers. I was never quite sure which direction it was going to head off in when I accelerated. Wet roundabouts with the auto kick down, swiftly followed by the turbo spooling up and the whole chassis wobbling around were particularly great fun. This was only when it wasn’t broken, which was most of the time.

I’d have another one in a heartbeat.

First few rides on the local hills after purchasing from Huws, still got the purple grips, now with brakes !

Glad to see it’s being used and enjoyed. It won’t be long until I’ve bought another one to replace it.

I don’t know if it counts as I can’t claim to have ‘made it’ but I did design it (before swiftly handing it over to others to detail and build).

Just before it’s last ride. I’d always wanted to try brakeless fixed offroad, it was scary.

If it’s anything like Hernehill velodrome, the hire bikes will be great but getting one in the right size is almost impossible (54’s are very popular). I eventually got bored with it and bought a Dolan track champion. A £400 Precursa would probably have been perfectly fine for learning, training and a spot of racing.

I decided cycling was going to be utterly bonkers today so got the train instead, south London to South west London. It was about the same as normal, I got a seat, I read a book about bees. Really rather pleasant.

none other than not having the slightest clue what’s on the market.

Thanks all. Probably should have mentioned that my laptop is busted so I’m stuck with an old iPhone 4 (3g only) and an iPad 2 (currently without a sim). No free Wi-Fi either, except in the pub but that’s out of range, but it is full of delicious liver destroying beer.

I’ve just realised my TV should have freeview inside it so I’ll try and get a temporary indoor aerial and prey that that works.

I live, and will live for the foreseeable future in London so trips out mountain biking have become very rare. Luckily tomorrow I’m moving to within half a mile of this

Not quite flat but very featureless, ruddy good fun though.

Last night I ate a tin of pineapple chunks that went out of date in April 2008. I’m not dead yet.

The LFGSS recommended way is a Kryptonite New York Fahgettaboudit Mini and a Kriptonite Evo Mini locked up like This.

Should put off all but the most determined thief, or at least make them look elsewhere.

Link edited. Should work now.

Had a bottle of Warre’s 1977 vintage. Amazing.

If it’s anything like the last time it happened I expect I’ll get woken up by the alarm, begrudgingly stumble out of bed with an epic hangover, get dressed, wander into the kitchen, stand at the sink drinking a pint of water, notice the smoke pouring out of the roof of the restaurant below. RUN LIKE ****! Then spend the night sat on the benches of the grotty Camden pub opposite and watch 5 fire engine loads of blokes smash the crap out of the restaurant in an attempt to put the fire out before it took down the whole building. Thankfully they did.

I live in a ground floor flat now.

I really really want a Citroen C6. They’re so awesome.

It’s utterly freaking bonkers. We looked at a few recently and they all went for significantly over the asking price within the first day of being on the market. Most of them pushing into the next stamp duty band too.

We finally managed to buy a tiny 1 bed place in south London last Friday. According to Zoopla, in the 6 months process of trying to buy it we’ve ‘made’ £60k.

Primrose hill is a pretty good idea. It’s still stupidly busy but significantly less so than near the river.

way some people ride my only surprise is that there are not many more fatalities

I see so many illegal and dangerous moves by cyclists that I can’t help think why more aren’t killed each day

This has been said twice* and agreed with a few times but the death and serious injury rates are still very low so it would suggest that those moves only appear to be dangerous and aren’t actually that dangerous.

*Not a particularly large sample but hey ho you work with the data you have to hand.

Ps. I’m not condoning doing stupid things that may or may not be dangerous, I’m suggesting that cycling on London’s congested roads is generally quite safe.

My thoroughly impractical commuter. Now replaced with a geared road bike and ‘relegated’ to pure track use. My back thanks me every day.

Amazing!

The real new Fall LP/Country on the click is very good. Goes a little bit New Fast Automatic Daffodils at the end, which is no bad thing. Thanks for the recommendation.

On to the Rough Trade Anthology now.

That’s just the ones on spotify. Wikipedia says there are 30 studio albums, 30 live albums, 35 compilations, 9 EPs and 2 spoken word albums. Prolific.

Finally found the real new fall LP. I shall report back.

Dez B, that’s the one I was I looking for but it’s not there, i own it on CD somewhere but never got around to investigating much further.

I generally prefer actual albums over compilations but given the scale of the back catalogue I’ll go for any way in this time.

There’s 56 albums!

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

It would have looked awful in 2007 when similar colour schemes were ‘on trend’. Now it looks like an absolute abomination.

It’s getting quite breezy in London and I’ve got the fear, I built a really cheap and shoddy polytunnel on my allotment a few weeks ago. I might to have to nip by in the morning to see how it’s held up.