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Yes, I said IKEA... 
As I'm on a low budget, I had to make do with stuff I have around the house.
A seat was quickly found, it's a pretty old chair but gives me a perfect seat hight and is really comfortable! Not sure what the name of it is, but it's kinda like the 'ancestor' of a chair comparable the 'Pello' seat.
Now that I had a nice seat, I needed something to mount my wheel, a pretty old Logitech Momo (the black one). It's far from prefect, but does the job quite nicely! So I had a good look around the house and noticed a barstool that was about the hight I needed, but as I grabbed it I was very doubtful the wheel clamp would fit, since it had a downward curved edge and the metal frame might be in the way..
I tried to mount the wheel anyway and I was astonished it actually fitted!
I sat down in the chair and pulled the barstool towards me and it was like perfect.. As if it were made to do the job! Perfect wheel hight and stability even expensive professional rigs have a hard time matching!
Of course there's no adjust ability except for moving the wheel closer of further away. The pedals sit on the edge of the rug using the carpet grips and it hardly(/doesn't) move even during intense racing.
All I have to do to start racing is turn the tv to the right angle, pull out the chair and put the barstool in front of it and set it all up so the pedels grip the corner of the rug, line up the chair and barstool to match the angle of the tv and I'm set in under a minute.
Let's stop the talking and show a picture of this 'IKEA' racing rig!
The wide lens makes it look like the tv is really small, but it's not too bad irl.
Oh... I also use gloves... sweaty hands and rubber grip makes for a sticky wheel... picked them up pretty cheap at dealextreme.
(I'll update with a better and maybe more pictures asap)
As I'm on a low budget, I had to make do with stuff I have around the house.
A seat was quickly found, it's a pretty old chair but gives me a perfect seat hight and is really comfortable! Not sure what the name of it is, but it's kinda like the 'ancestor' of a chair comparable the 'Pello' seat.
Now that I had a nice seat, I needed something to mount my wheel, a pretty old Logitech Momo (the black one). It's far from prefect, but does the job quite nicely! So I had a good look around the house and noticed a barstool that was about the hight I needed, but as I grabbed it I was very doubtful the wheel clamp would fit, since it had a downward curved edge and the metal frame might be in the way..
I tried to mount the wheel anyway and I was astonished it actually fitted!
I sat down in the chair and pulled the barstool towards me and it was like perfect.. As if it were made to do the job! Perfect wheel hight and stability even expensive professional rigs have a hard time matching!
Of course there's no adjust ability except for moving the wheel closer of further away. The pedals sit on the edge of the rug using the carpet grips and it hardly(/doesn't) move even during intense racing.
All I have to do to start racing is turn the tv to the right angle, pull out the chair and put the barstool in front of it and set it all up so the pedels grip the corner of the rug, line up the chair and barstool to match the angle of the tv and I'm set in under a minute.
Let's stop the talking and show a picture of this 'IKEA' racing rig!
The wide lens makes it look like the tv is really small, but it's not too bad irl.
Oh... I also use gloves... sweaty hands and rubber grip makes for a sticky wheel... picked them up pretty cheap at dealextreme.
(I'll update with a better and maybe more pictures asap)
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Nice one!
Makes shopping there pretty interesting...
