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Building a Workbench Booter in my Garage

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A mountain biker with a garage and a stack of 2x4s decides a workbench should also be a skatepark.

Seth Bike Hacks, the creator behind the mountain biking channel Berm Peak, doesn’t build ordinary garage furniture. In his latest project video, “Building a Workbench Skatepark in my Garage,” he takes over a newly acquired garage and frames out a single structure that functions as a full workshop bench, a bike rack, a storage vault, and a set of BMX ramps all at once. It’s the kind of build that sounds like a joke until the lumber actually goes level.

• The workbench system integrates dedicated bike parking, deep underlying storage compartments, and curved BMX ramps — or “booters” — directly into the frame.
• The ramped sections double as walkable inclines, giving Seth foot access to high wall storage that would otherwise sit out of reach.
• Warped structural lumber left parts of the bench looking uneven mid-build, but Seth notes everything settled into a flat, level alignment once all the pieces were screwed together and weighted down.

A Garage Built Around Two Wheels

Most workbench videos start with a tape measure and end with a coat of stain. Seth’s starts the same way but layers in a second purpose from the jump: the bench isn’t just a place to hold a vise, it’s built to store and stage bikes inside a garage he’s just moved into. The framing lumber and plywood sheeting he uses are standard hardware-store stock, nothing exotic — the trick is in how he shapes and stacks it, not what it’s made of.

The dedicated bike parking slots into the structure itself, and the cavity underneath the benchtop becomes genuine storage real estate rather than dead space. For a garage that’s doing double duty as a shop and a ride-out spot, that’s the difference between a cluttered floor and a functional one.

Ramps That Double as Walkways

The signature touch is the curved BMX ramp sections built right into the bench frame — booters that work as kickers for bikes rolling through the garage, but also as inclined walkways Seth can climb on foot. That second function is what turns the build from a novelty into something practical: instead of hauling a ladder over to reach wall-mounted storage above the bench, he just walks up the ramp.

Sections initially appeared uneven, and indeed some of the wood was warped — but after everything was screwed together and all the weight was on top, things settled in nicely.

That note matters more than it sounds. Warped framing lumber is a common headache in any DIY build, and rather than scrapping boards or shimming everything by eye, Seth lets the finished, fully fastened structure pull itself flat under its own weight and hardware tension — a shortcut that only works because the frame is heavily anchored throughout.

The Baby Oil Bit

No Berm Peak project video is complete without a running gag, and this one leans on Seth’s joke about putting baby oil in the hydraulic brakes of his fat-tire bike — the kind of deadpan, don’t-actually-try-this humor that’s become a signature of his channel alongside the sawdust and tape measures. It’s a small aside, but it’s the connective tissue that keeps a lumber-and-screws video watchable start to finish.

For viewers who gravitate toward creators turning odd personal challenges into full-blown builds, the format has plenty of company across the wider DIY-content space — see the scrappy, staged-out approach in Turning $0.01 Into a House in 1 Week: Days 7-28, or the go-big-on-a-dare energy of World’s Largest Challenge!

The bench is done, the ramps hold weight, and the storage cubbies are already filling up — which for a channel built on garage projects means the next video is probably already sawdust-covered. Seth’s baby oil brake joke, for what it’s worth, is still just a joke. Don’t try it.