powerlord Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) So this week I'll be picking up my new Air Conception. It will spend most of its like in my motorhome garage, BUT as it's a bit faffy to put the cage together,etc - I thought it would be nice to have an option to be able to store it fully assembled for short periods. Basic idea is - if I'm touring about a small area it saves disassembling every time - or you find a spot, set up, wind changes, etc and it makes it much easier to admit defeat, store it, and drive somewhere else rather than make the mistake of persisting. So - bike rack was a 4 bike rack on back of my van. Rated to 75kg. I've stripped it down to 2 bikes as never need more than that - and added a riveted on aluminium plate to accept the paramotor. That's progress so far, as I can't do anything else with mount points, etc till I actually get the thing, but I thought I'd post now, so it's a sort of build log. I'm not going to be driving long distances with it on back, or along motorways, etc. But unlike with a car mount, there's not really the air resistance problem since the van's done the job of removing all of that. And the air conception only weighs 30kg full of fuel, so I'm well within load limit of rack. Plan is, it can just plop in there and quickly be secured/unsecured. When I'm done for the day - it gets dissassembled as much as required to fit in the boot at the back. The boot did have my 2 old paramotors in it disassembled, so is a decent size, but is quite narrow and not that tall - it's going to take some trial and error this week to find out how AC best fits in there and can be secured - ideally without removing the prop. super ideally - leaving some of cage attached. I'll post those pics here too. Edited March 20, 2017 by powerlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 hmm..can't upload any more pics - limited to 150kb total even if I spread it across multiple replies ?? weird. so that's yer lot. ain't gonna be much of a build log then 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin (Simon W) Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 How odd... please remind me to look into this pants limitation when I get back on the 31st. SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon_dunn Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 On 20/03/2017 at 08:02, powerlord said: So this week I'll be picking up my new Air Conception. It will spend most of its like in my motorhome garage, BUT as it's a bit faffy to put the cage together,etc - I thought it would be nice to have an option to be able to store it fully assembled for short periods. Basic idea is - if I'm touring about a small area it saves disassembling every time - or you find a spot, set up, wind changes, etc and it makes it much easier to admit defeat, store it, and drive somewhere else rather than make the mistake of persisting. So - bike rack was a 4 bike rack on back of my van. Rated to 75kg. I've stripped it down to 2 bikes as never need more than that - and added a riveted on aluminium plate to accept the paramotor. That's progress so far, as I can't do anything else with mount points, etc till I actually get the thing, but I thought I'd post now, so it's a sort of build log. I'm not going to be driving long distances with it on back, or along motorways, etc. But unlike with a car mount, there's not really the air resistance problem since the van's done the job of removing all of that. And the air conception only weighs 30kg full of fuel, so I'm well within load limit of rack. Plan is, it can just plop in there and quickly be secured/unsecured. When I'm done for the day - it gets dissassembled as much as required to fit in the boot at the back. The boot did have my 2 old paramotors in it disassembled, so is a decent size, but is quite narrow and not that tall - it's going to take some trial and error this week to find out how AC best fits in there and can be secured - ideally without removing the prop. super ideally - leaving some of cage attached. I'll post those pics here too. Interesting reg number- Northern Ireland based????? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 originally probably. Private regs now - had em for years - I have two consecutive ones for - other's on the mota. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asquaddie Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Stu - Where did you get the decors for the back of your motorhome? Looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 just ebay I think. they've lasted well too - been on there 5 years or so now. I've got the big one that side, and a smaller one the other side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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