How can I move, all alone, a disabled motorcycle (heavy, no front wheel)
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From: Red Green on 11 Jan 2010 10:16 Gael <breoganmacbrath(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:c0336de9-8cc9-4036-b0d2-8453c822e112(a)q4g2000yqm.googlegroups.com: > On Jan 10, 2:08�pm, Joseph Donner <josephdonne...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck >> but how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) >> onto and of > f >> the truck. > > U-Haul rents box vans with powered lift gates and a cargo floor that's > lower than the typical pickup truck bed and U-Haul also rents very low > motorcycle trailers with loading ramps. > > Once your don't have a front wheel at all, snag an abandoned > supermarket shopping cart and hacksaw the basket part off so you can > rest the motorcycle forks on the wheeled bottom half of the cart. > > You can probable use the axle clamps on the bottom of the forks to > secure the motorcycle to the shopping cart when you have to maneuver > the motorcycle around the garage. > > Sawed-off shopping carts are good for moving engines around the garage > too. They were good indestructible buggies too. > > Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk > crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using > milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a > group... > >
From: Red Green on 11 Jan 2010 10:50 George <george(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in news:4B4B4143.4080306(a)nospam.invalid: > On 1/11/2010 10:16, Red Green wrote: >> Gael<breoganmacbrath(a)yahoo.com> wrote in >> news:c0336de9-8cc9-4036-b0d2-8453c822e112(a)q4g2000yqm.googlegroups.com: >> >>> On Jan 10, 2:08 pm, Joseph Donner<josephdonne...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a >>>> truck but how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and >>>> frame) onto and of >>> f >>>> the truck. >>> >>> U-Haul rents box vans with powered lift gates and a cargo floor >>> that's lower than the typical pickup truck bed and U-Haul also rents >>> very low motorcycle trailers with loading ramps. >>> >>> Once your don't have a front wheel at all, snag an abandoned >>> supermarket shopping cart and hacksaw the basket part off so you can >>> rest the motorcycle forks on the wheeled bottom half of the cart. >>> >>> You can probable use the axle clamps on the bottom of the forks to >>> secure the motorcycle to the shopping cart when you have to maneuver >>> the motorcycle around the garage. >>> >>> Sawed-off shopping carts are good for moving engines around the >>> garage too. >> >> They were good indestructible buggies too. > > They were also pretty handy for the market that paid ~ $120/each for > them... > >> >>> >>> Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk >>> crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using >>> milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a >>> group... >>> >>> >> > Yep, it's me and my childhood honkey gangsta friends fault that bread is no longer 9� Now, 45-50 years later, I should confess and send money to them even though they no longer exist? Oh, because of me and my Little Rascals buds, they are out of business. I should stop and lecture any 9 year olds I see with cart bottom buggies.
From: Red Green on 11 Jan 2010 21:11
aemeijers <aemeijers(a)att.net> wrote in news:CpCdnQL_6oxnT9bWnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d(a)giganews.com: > Rob Kleinschmidt wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2:08 pm, Joseph Donner <josephdonne...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> How can I move, all alone, a disabled motorcycle (heavy, no front >>> wheel). >>> >>> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck >>> but how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) >>> onto and off the truck. >> >> Lots of rental trucks have lift gates. >> >> You'd definitely need tie down straps and some >> way to move the bike around as you're getting it >> on and off the truck. Maybe strapping it to a dolly >> would work. >> > > Buy a junk front wheel and tire that will fit the front fork you have, > or is that missing too? Is the bike worth moving? Unless it is a > collector bike, basket cases usually go cheap around here. May be > better off to sell it and start over once you relocate. > > -- > aem sends... > Possibly can derive something from: http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_may2009/RedneckSpareTire.jpg |