Motorbike tent/garage

[TaffyTDM]

The sort you put the bike in, not the type you shag in.

I have a hardstanding but to put a full height shed on it wont really work for various reasons.

I prefer the idea of a hard wearing canopy i can cocoon the bike in rsther than mess around trying to tie the cover up.

Main aim is weather protection rather than antiscrote in my area.

Recommendations please. Hardstanding is concretete top fuck knows what rubble the previous owners built it up with

[BigTim]

Machine Mart do some

quite big, didnt seem too expensive when i was looking into getting one late last year.
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[NJD]

I think before you invest it may be worth noting that:

(1) Whatever brand you go with these types of "sheds" are designed to be anchored into the floor to prevent them from flying away, and are therefore best suited to grass / soil areas. If you've got a flat concrete area I'd probably look at the cost of large bags of sand to weigh the legs down. I don't think I'd entertain digging up the concrete because you need to go quite deep when you twist the anchors into the soil, and since you don't know what's underneath your area its hard to say how hard that would be.

You may think that the "shed" flying away isn't probable, but even anchored into the ground and with any serious gust mine wobbles. Not to an overly dramatic extent, but they are just light tubes with a tarpaulin on the top after all. There's not any great extensive weight in them (just large in size physically).

(2) In the winter cold moisture can build up inside and form water droplets that may have you believing there's a leak, but often there's not (only really experienced this in the very cold minus temps recently).

In summer being inside them is unbearable, and outside is often cooler.

(3) There's no security to them, and wondering cats love to get inside them. If you have any unnurtured male cats in your area you'll soon now about it (pee on things).

(4) Stall clips (cheap at screwfix) are worth having so that you can clip the ends and top cover together and make a tighter shelter.

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Wayfair may be worth a look as to where to buy one from. Really depends on your budget and the size you have space for, or actually need.
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[boundy]

https://www.storm-protector.co.uk/

Best quality I've come across, can be locked close with a padlock, just bolt straight to the concrete using the supplied anchors.

[Britabroad]

[F18]

But can you shag in it ?
- you know, just like you were bored or something.
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[Britabroad]

[TaffyTDM]

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[Chuffin Nora]

[doggone]

I think results will be disappointing compared to even the most rudimentary more permanent shelter, a strong gusty wind from wrong direction could do some damage too.
Condensation and reduced air movement will mean it's often wetter with the cover on than with it off.

[TaffyTDM]

[smokin joe]

I had one of those up and over tent type covers twenty years ago. The problem was the material sagging between the frame supports allowing water to pool and eventually finding it's way through.

Waterproofing might well have improved since then, but I've never known any materials that didn't eventually leak. The weather takes it's toll in the end.

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Chuffin Nora]

^^


Yeah, that's what I was steering towards.
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