New bed for the Falco
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:47 pm
In the General chat 'coz any bike can benefit.
1st Please excuse my apparent overenthusiasm, I'm not getting out much these days.
2nd What's the appropriate thing to say when your wife/partner gives you the WTF have you bought now look?
3rd Aladinsane, you have a lot to answer for.
Anyhoo.
My daughter was in hospital in May and while there I was amusing here by pumping the bed up and down (shes only 3), when a thread Aladinsane's posted a bit back came to me. A couple questions and calls later I was in touch with a man who was, to my surprise, unfazed by my request for an unwanted hospital bed that I could turn into a motorcycle lift.
Apparently he's been tapped up before. So he was aware of what I needed and last week (so that's less than 2 months later) one comes up that's unsuitable for redeployment. He makes the call, I liberate a ute from work, cross his palm with a variety of colours $74 (have you seen the notes here?) and the bed's now in my shed, after I gave it a good jet wash with a disinfecting/mild bleach solution then a rinse just to be sure.
So now all I need to do is strip off the stuff I don't need and make the flat top strong enough to support the bike and presto a bike lift.
Pictures and commentary to follow.
1st Please excuse my apparent overenthusiasm, I'm not getting out much these days.
2nd What's the appropriate thing to say when your wife/partner gives you the WTF have you bought now look?
3rd Aladinsane, you have a lot to answer for.
Anyhoo.
My daughter was in hospital in May and while there I was amusing here by pumping the bed up and down (shes only 3), when a thread Aladinsane's posted a bit back came to me. A couple questions and calls later I was in touch with a man who was, to my surprise, unfazed by my request for an unwanted hospital bed that I could turn into a motorcycle lift.
Apparently he's been tapped up before. So he was aware of what I needed and last week (so that's less than 2 months later) one comes up that's unsuitable for redeployment. He makes the call, I liberate a ute from work, cross his palm with a variety of colours $74 (have you seen the notes here?) and the bed's now in my shed, after I gave it a good jet wash with a disinfecting/mild bleach solution then a rinse just to be sure.
So now all I need to do is strip off the stuff I don't need and make the flat top strong enough to support the bike and presto a bike lift.
Pictures and commentary to follow.
(always wanted to use that emoticon, now is the 1st time I think it's appropriate)