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Mike_D on "Family-friendly bike-carrying camper build"

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And next, an impressive milestone - ripping out a load of perfectly good stuff that we'd already done and doing it again, only different! Actually not the first bit that's been done twice (one of the rooflights has been in and out more times than the hokey cokey) but one of the biggest...

We had an issue with the boot space, in that the lower pair of bikes sat on the boot floor, blocking access to the under-bunk space and ending up with loads of stuff stacked against/wedged in amongst. This was inconvenient. Remember the rather lovely shelf I spent ages on? Out it came, and in went some lengths of shelf track that I had lurking:

You can probably see where this is going - add brackets, pad appropriately, hang bicycle off them:

And in the lower position, two up:

Doing it this way means (as is hopefully clear from the picture) that the bottom of the boot is completely clear, so long things like chairs and inflataple SUPs (which are the new things that we have to accommodate, but they're a bit more compact that the inflatable kayaks that we used to carry, so that's a win of sorts) can be packed lengthways under the bunk.

Keen-eyed observers will note a handy-looking space over on the right. To capitalise on that I embarked on making a suitable unit:

But before completing that, we finally got around to putting down flooring on the, um, floor. GLUE:

FLOOR:

Tidy. Then I could finish the shelvy thing (recycling some bits of the old shelf in the process):

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And without all the clamps once the glue had set:

Ending up with this:

Just in time to experimentally load up ready for Mayhem:

Worked fine with one bike (as you'd hope, really). Finished off the threshold with a length of alu angle:

You may notice a New Hole - there was a space behind a wheelarch that was accessed from the side, which wasn't that handy, so it now isn't:

And clearly post-loading. Not quite as terrible as it used to be with that quantity of stuff in it:

Other dull-ish stuff: Finally filled in the previous gap at the bottom of the kitchen drawers with, imaginatively enough, another drawer. Although it's a big one, because (a) more useful for pans and stuff and (b) one less drawer to make

Nearly finished:

Finished, apart from a handle:

Spectacular dullness: Made a bin. Or, more accurately, a housing for an Ikea plastic bin:

You've all seen this technique, but here it is again just because:

And with a hinged lid (prototype, better to come):


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