Mountain Biking Preparation

Last night I finished screwing together my simple storage frame and installed it in the van. I also went through all the boxes I have in the shed for camping, biking and surfing and rearranged them all so that they all now neatly fit into the boxes the frame is designed to hold. So I now have a dead simple way of transporting my bike box when I go biking. I just go to the shed, grab my bike box and throw it into the back of the van, kept in place by the storage frame, with no need to bungee anything in place.

However there is still the issue of my bike. Having a Kombi I have six load lashing points spread evenly across the floor of the van. Dead handy. However I always struggle with a counter point up high to strap a bungee to in order to hold a mountain bike upright. This lunchtime I solved this issue.

I did nothing more that super glue a bunch of small coat hooks to the metal frame work of the van, above the load lashing points. These are small enough to be unobtrusive but are big enough to hook a bungee cord over. So I will now have an easy way to lash my bike into the van for transporting about.


It's a very little and easy thing but it's a step forward in utilization of my van for the things I bought it for - like simply being able to go mountain biking with the bikes and boxes easily thrown in the back.