Wanted - bike lift

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MartDude · #1 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:22 pm

Does anyone have a bike lift surplus to requirements?

This type

Preferably within, say, 2 hours drive of Kidderminster/Ludlow area

Aladinsaneuk · #2 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:42 pm

you can borrow mine mate - i do not need it for at least a few months BUt

you will need a transit to move it

just let me have it back at beginning of december

MartDude · #3 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:26 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:you can borrow mine mate - i do not need it for at least a few months BUt

you will need a transit to move it

just let me have it back at beginning of december

Thanks Pete - if I can't find one nearer home, I'll probably take you up on that

paddyz1 · #4 Post by **paddyz1** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:17 pm

That looks like a sealy lift. The height is only 770mm It will do your back in but then again will be better than sitting on the floor.. You can get 900/1000mm lifts which would be better for you. Mine is a 1000mm lift but i have it sunken into the floor for space saving reasons.

Aladinsaneuk · #5 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:23 pm

mine is the full height :)

the extra inches count - ask the hobbit....

D-Rider · #6 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:57 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:mine is the full height :)

the extra inches count - ask the hobbit....

I believe he has one ..... but refers to it as "the bike mounting platform"

Aladinsaneuk · #7 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:58 pm

nod

or steps if he feels close to "H"

#8 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:14 pm

Couldve done with one of those loading the dead GPz into the back of the Transit yesterday.. and then getting it out again the other end.. considering the loadbed of a transit sits almost halfway up my thigh, heightwise.. *

Quite a feat when you've got an equally short 13 year old son helping you..

But we got there.

*put your arms up above your head then angle forwards by about 20 degrees.. that was me at full stretch stood at the back doors of the van trying to keep pushing it up the ramp and hold the bars, operating the front brake and not dropping the fekkin thing.

BikerGran · #9 Post by **BikerGran** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:18 pm

paddyz1 wrote: It will do your back in but then again will be better than sitting on the floor..

Just need a height adjustable stool with wheels.

randomsquid · #10 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:31 pm

Fitting wheels to a stool would be...
messy.

Aladinsaneuk · #11 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:36 pm

and can i just say that tim is actually taller than a stool

not as tall as a bar stool but.....

MartDude · #12 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:27 pm

Anyway, does anyone have one they's like to sell me?

MartDude · #13 Post by **MartDude** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:12 am

Got one. Clarke CML3

£185.00, looks as if it's not had a great deal of use. Collected it ealier this evening from Bristol; seller had a rather spectacularly customised VRod

D-Rider · #14 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:40 am

Where's that Jealousy Emoticon when you need it ..................

Looks good Mart

Aladinsaneuk · #15 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:52 am

same type as mine

WAS

i found out that it was not wide enough to use an abba stand so, two lengths of sheet deck fell out of a local oil rig and have been bolted on to make the platform a metre wide. i think i am also going to loose the wheel clamp and extend the front - i am lucky that i have a spare garage JUST for the bike lift :)