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ryancarter
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PostPosted: 20:05 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: pushing motorbike Reply with quote
I need to push my bike to the front of my house each morning and its quite heavy. Any tips so i dont drop it?
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PostPosted: 20:35 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Man up?

What bike is it?
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FerretFing
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sit on it & paddle it??......ride it carefully on the clutch with both feet on the ground? Why do you have to push it?...surely if it can be pushed it can be ridden Thumbs Up
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 20:47 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not relevant here but a top-tip I learned for pushing a heavy bike any distance.

Don't push it, pull it. Attach a bit of rope (luggage strap?) to the back of the bike and tie it round your waist so it just becomes tight when you're standing next to the bars. Still tiring but a hell of a lot better than pushing the bars!

Oddly, you need to use the brake to stop.

Took my VFR750 just over 2 miles like this when the reg/rec packed in. Nearly killed me, but I wouldn't have made it at all by pushing.
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PostPosted: 21:01 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ngsavfc wrote:
Sit on it & paddle it??......ride it carefully on the clutch with both feet on the ground? Why do you have to push it?...surely if it can be pushed it can be ridden Thumbs Up


A tiny gateway to get through with mm to spare each side, a twat of a set of steps, slope or tortuous garden path to get down, a cvnt of a thin alleyway that you literally have to hold the front and lift and drag or swing the back through 90 degrees to get through the door... Any combination of the above.

One tactic I find useful is keep the sidestand down and wheel the bike from the other side, if you can't get away with this, sit on it and paddle. My theory with the sidestand down is that it cant fall towards you cos you're in the way to stop it, and if it falls away from you and the stand is fully down its got a good chance of just plonking down on the stand. A bad habit, would make my instructor whinge but I find it easy that way.
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 21:16 - 26 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ThoughtControl wrote:
My theory with the sidestand down is that it cant fall towards you cos you're in the way to stop it, and if it falls away from you and the stand is fully down its got a good chance of just plonking down on the stand. A bad habit, would make my instructor whinge but I find it easy that way.


Just remember, if it's still rolling forwards, even slightly when you plonk the stand down, it'll fold up under the bike.

Top tip for getting down slopes. Leave the bike in gear and hold the clutch in. if it starts running away from you, you can let the clutch out to stop it. Bit like a dead mans handle. It's how I take my bikes down the ramp out of the back of my van.
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Aiks
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PostPosted: 16:15 - 27 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
This post made me smile, as I face the same problem every time when I'm trying to take mine out Confused

And yes for most of you ER5 is light bike, but for rather small female it is as heavy as ekhem...

I have to 'park it' nose to front, and then trying to push it back ... very awkward and find it hard to do on gravel floor Confused

Trying to swerve around both of our cars on drive way as well…
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ryancarter
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 27 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
i have a gate, an incline, gravel and 2 cars to get around. Easier to get on and paddle or stay off and move???
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PostPosted: 20:22 - 27 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ryancarter wrote:
i have a gate, an incline, gravel and 2 cars to get around. Easier to get on and paddle or stay off and move???


Learn slow speed control and ride it...

I have to reverse mine 10 yards down a gravel drive passed the car and turn into the garage.
Why reverse, because its easier than trying to turn the bike round where there is next to no room.

Always do it sat on the bike, you have greater control. As Stinkwheel says do it in gear with the clutch in.
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PostPosted: 00:46 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I sit on my fazer and paddle it.

I don't know who he does it, but the mechanic at Flitwick motorcycles pushes all the bikes out through the shop, into the carpark backwards and one handed!

I saw mine go whizzing past as he pushed it out Confused I shan't be attempting that any time soon.
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metalangel
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PostPosted: 16:12 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
My problem is pushing backwards, up a gradient into my garage when I get home. Unless I get a good run (floor is uneven and a bit gritty in places) I get stuck.
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