Bike Lift

[GettinBetter]

So... I scoured the internet for a piece of equipment to lift my bike or support it while I took the back wheel off and such like jobs. saw some nice looking crap bits of kit with crap pictures and no dimensions no weights, etc.
Then there's the storage, i could do without another bit of kit to find a space for.

I came up with this, I already had the jack for my camper, and raises to just under a metre, so made a few new additional tools to adapt it... and viola. There stabiliser on the front bolts on, and the frame the bike sits on just drops into the existing hole on top of the jack. It's amazingly stable, and I can even move it around with confidence.

[stinkwheel]

All good fun until the hydraulics start to creep. I wouldn't take the wheels out etc with it up on there. I'd lift the bike then lower it onto axle stands, just like you would with a car.

You can put stands under the swingarm legs or flip the footpegs and put them under there.

Even my proper hyraulic bike lift has a bar you put through and lower the thing down onto after it's lifted, it's not held up by the jack itself.

Or, your fabrication skills are clearly up to it, you could lower the lifting frame onto a table of some sort after lifting it with the jack.

I do wonder if it could be used to stack bikes 2-high in a garage
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[GettinBetter]

[stinkwheel]

Thinking about it further. You could sleeve the ram.

Piece of channel steel the length of the ram when it's extended. Slot it over the ram and put a couple of pins through underneath so it can't come off then release the ram so it's resting on the sleeve. That's what they do with tipper trailers when they want to work under the bed.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[GettinBetter]

[stinkwheel]

Found a pic of one on a mini-digger bucket.

https://i.imgur.com/P9LvCFW.jpg
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.