I am very happy with my bike barn which I got for my Concours. Keep in mind when you are watching this video that at the time I took it, the bike barn was secured by only four 36 pound pavers, one in each corner. Since then I have doubled on the front two corners and added some smaller pavers at the hinges and the middle. But the bike barn is great, I highly recommend it.
Okay, today is an extremely windy day. Wanted to videotape how the bike barn is holding up. I came home, my car was not parked right there, I parked it there to block some of the wind and it had been rotated. So you see that 36 pound block on the front corner that I put another item on top of for extra weight. That had been pulled 6 inches, maybe 8 inches over that way and the whole barn was rotated maybe 5 degrees. They are pretty good considering the strength of the wind, which I am hoping I will be able to capture.
You can imagine how much it had to take for a car to park right in front of it. That was about the same strength as some of the others, but not of as long duration. That structure was just twisting from the top. I am impressed because it's taking it and it has not shoved up against the motorcycle inside, the motorcycle is untouched inside. And this one actually, its sound, twisted that shape a little bit but such that --
You can see where the cat has been peeing on it. What I am going to do is stop that, so now I am going to have to come up here and open it up. And my hand is still in cat pee. But I don't know what else to do. I am going to kill the cat. I am not going to -- as you can see everything is good on the inside. You can see that the material that the white board is made out of looks like it's almost porous but it does not allow water to come through. But it does breathe very nicely. And as you can see the white barn is not touching the motorcycle. I guess if it was blowing from the other side, it would probably have bumped against one mirror right there. But just the fabric, so it wouldn't be too bad and it's up pretty well.
So I am pretty happy. You see the structure is a little bit twisted but the fabric doesn't even close to being torn. It looks good. It looks worse on the outside than on the inside. I added these rubber straps both ends to give it some extra-rigidity, the inside here is what I did, another set of 36 pound paver block with rubber bungee cords holding the corners down and right up in the corner so that it's difficult to move. The rubber also has the added benefit of adding friction to those pavers, pretty hard to slide that. We are getting the tyre attached to it. So let's put this back together. It is easier -- before I got twisted up with these, I had it just like placed so that I can quickly and easily put it back.
It's been like this for the last four hours or so. There it's twisted, it's going to move in the middle there. It used to be straight. Actually helping it resists -- there you go. What I have seen since I was here and sort of --
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