Presented in these images is the essential detail that will bridge the tire rims laterally to one another. It is shown here in its crudest form (a race to finish enough of them before shop closed today) but it demonstrates the principal I am thinking about. The entire railing structure will be made of this and another simpler-still detail that bridges tires together with depth-- more than likely, a steel tube that like a Christmas tree holder, pegs into one bolt through to keep it taught-- if not an entire pin running through all the wheels at once.
It is these two details that I am considering this weekend and how I can massage them into something more elegant. The first given is to sandblast them to show their metallic quality and wax them... but I like Sheryl's recommendation to try and fold a piece of flat metal in L form into the shape (at least I will try it on Monday). The better their craft and design, the more it will contrast against the well-worn bike rims.
The other thing to consider all this weekend design wise is the railing. In the photo here I am holding tire tubing. It would be contradictory again to make the part of the bike that meets the road and is the dirtiest part into a railing of a sensual nature to the hand that weaves in and around various bike rims. Other materials might lend themselves well too though...
This weekend for me is now all about the detailing of these two connection details (the lateral and the depth-giving one) and what the railing will be (how it will attach to the rims). On Monday, it will be pure work for five shop days and a matter of assembling the whole thing on the weekend.
What I am content in is that it should work-- I will know by the end of this weekend.
Any ideas? How should this railing end at intersecting rims, softly or abruptly? Arguably it could be either. Could it be tire? Or leather? Or something else? Could it be sewn onto the rim? Hmmm....
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