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dransy
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PostPosted: 23:31 - 11 Mar 2013    Post subject: diy motorcycle lift Reply with quote
Just looking for ideas and found this bad boy!

https://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/672140-homemade-motorcycle-lift-table/

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PostPosted: 00:01 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
lol good bit of cheap kit. i would have had a chequer plate floor just for grip and oil spills
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PostPosted: 01:12 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Neat idea. Smile
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Ed Case
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well done, cracking bit of carpentry but with all that lovely work I'd have been tempted to see if I could have picked-up a s/h steel one via a private ad (there's usually a few doing nowt in the odd garage) or off fleabay. Got to admire your work and ingenuity though, much better than I could manage !. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:21 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
bleh. doesnt look any good for proper bikes. I bet that is light enough that I could lift it up onto a table, and Im a weakling.
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PostPosted: 12:32 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good idea. Working in wood often preferred to metal. I find it easier.

Nice workshop too, have to find an excuse to get an anvil now Very Happy
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PostPosted: 12:34 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Needs a built in paddock stand else it's only the front bit which is useful, else it's just a bike sat on a ramp?
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PostPosted: 15:06 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
suzukirider1987 wrote:
lol good bit of cheap kit. i would have had a chequer plate floor just for grip and oil spills

Have you ever spilled oil or get 4/5 bar tread plate (not checker plate) wet? It's the least grippiest surface known to man, stuff should be banned, the only reason it gets used is because it doesn't rust away.

You can't paint it easily, when it goes even shinier it gets even slipperier, get some rubberised paint with grit in it, or paint it and chuck some sand in it.
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PostPosted: 15:21 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Use an old hospital bed.
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
usualy just strap mine up to the garage roof joists..
easier,cheaper and much less hassle..
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 12 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
its a type of thing my dad would build Smile one question though.. is there like a latch to keep it level? like how do you put the ramp back down to take the bike off it?
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PostPosted: 00:56 - 13 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nowadays to be honest you have to be either pretty keen on DIY to make something like that. It's nicely done even if it's a bit small.

If you have wood and screws around it's fine, but if you have to buy the wood and fixings, and then factor in time, why would you bother when you can get this for a couple of hundred quid new, and for pennies 2nd hand.

It lifted my busa OK Shocked Laughing

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PostPosted: 15:09 - 13 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear, do you have a link to that particular one?
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Ed Case
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 13 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
If anyone's after a metal bike lift like the one shown bear in mind that a 'scissor lift' needs less room than the parallelogram one here, important if you've only got restricted space like me with an average sized garage. Both types do the job great.
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PostPosted: 19:03 - 13 Mar 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
jnw010 wrote:
Polarbear, do you have a link to that particular one?


This is the one shown, same suppliers who delivered in a couple of days. It's gone up a bit in the couple of years I've had mine though.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hydraulic-Bike-Motorcycle-Lift-Ramp-Table-Bench-1000lb-/380300709360?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item588bb04df0
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