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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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I used to use a plywood ramp for loading my bike until I found out how cheap a proper folding aluminium one was. Then I wondered why I'd fucked on lugging huge heavy bits of ply about and nearly dropping my bike for so long. ____________________ “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. |
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Interesting.
The roof on my mums house has quite a bit of moss growth on the North facing side and I have been spraying it periodically with a moss killer solution which has worked reasonably well, however I'm wondering if a straight up copper sulphate solution would work better. |
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Jet wash gets rid of algae instantly.
BTW I have been carrying a 5 foot scaffold board in my van for about 15 years. Rescued dozens of stranded bikes with it including my own at times. When I had my ' busa I had to use a 7 foot board or it would ground out when it was stretched and lowered. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Can't believe people don't just spend £30 on a ramp. Surely reducing the chance of dropping your bike while moving it
by using something purpose made, grippy and strong enough is worth the price of a budget crash helmet?? Couldn't be
without mine, wouldn't chance getting my bike from my shed to the roadside any other way, in my case doing so is
a process that needs a ramp twice. I have alu checkerplate screwed onto the one piece of wood I do have to cross. There's
a bloke on ebay that makes panels for landrovers who sells his off cuts. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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I have a pair of these, bought about 5 years ago. Gave about £35 each for them as I recall. That was a delivered price too.
Seems they've gone up since but there you go, thats life. Plenty of change out of 400 quid though even at this price.
They were used quite successfully to get my ER6f onto my Sprinter back when I still had both vehicles. Again, if there's a
chance you might need a ramp, why not buy a ramp? It's not like they're bike specific FFS, you'll get plenty of use out of it
if you're the sort of person who might need one... These ramps are pretty decent, I ride the bike down one of them,
to get the bike into my back yard so that's a good 270kg combined weight. So they are pretty robust. Used them
for the wheel barrow a few months ago when I was laying slabs in the back yard and had tonnes of aggregate to get
from front to back. Very handy thing to own. And I maintain that even at todays higher prices it's still worth the expense. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Don't be to careless with a bike on a ramp.
Take time and a few practice goes to get it spot-on.
For a result.
https://youtu.be/mXQSPF26uM0 ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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If riding up the ramp you've got to be careful that once the front wheel is in the van, the back wheel doesn't just throw the ramp backwards.
Have got ones like this rather than the ones grrr posted https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382370494566 as there's more grip and less slide than the ones he posted a link to.
Dead easy to use, loading bikes into the back of a lifted pickup truck was fun. |
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Next pro tip... don't touch the brakes, have the bike in gear and use the clutch to control the speed when unloading. |
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They look OK, alloy too. Mine's 2m long and about 1m wide (!), but I use it for other things, such as wheelchair passengers. |
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Mine is one of those blacks folding ramps. We loaded my neighbours suzuki M1800 into a box van with it because the tail-lift wasn't man enough.
I must admit that gave me a bit of a squeaky bum but the ramp never moved.
That was a FUCKING heavy bike. ____________________ “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. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 98 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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