Lifting a Roadster safely

[TriumPhil]

Lift her like a man, Hipster!ldgit:ops2::lol:

[video=youtube;3t-0-2ekA3U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t-0-2ekA3U[/video]

[video=youtube;YDR856eBy1c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR856eBy1c[/video]

 

[owl]

These 'how to lift' vids are always the same.

Conveniently, they always lean the bike over on the side opposite the kick stand.

Secondly, they never show anyone doing it on anything other than flat ground with a good surface.

And as for the first vid shown here, Jeez - I lean bikes over further than that every time I ride - the thing was almost upright already.

 

[atomsplitter]

Of course if you had a Orsheln's Farm and Ranch down under you buy tractor hitch pins of the correct diameter.....

 

[Hipporider]

Well i made the bracket and it worked fine. ...

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[Hipporider]

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[Hipporider]

But then it fell over overnight!

I believe the cause was leaving a block of wood under the rear wheel. I expected the jack to decompress over night and had some square hollow section propped under the jack but silly me forgot to lower the jack down onto it, releasing the hydraulic load. I hope someone else can learn from my mistake. With help from my mate, we used an endless chain to lift the Roadster carefully. Bugger all damage, I'm lucky. [emoji15]

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[atomsplitter]

You can try my method...a pneumatic bike lift

 

[Hipporider]

That doesn't solve the problem of being able to lift the bike off both wheels at the same time though.

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[owl]

Hippo, doesn't your jack have a mechanical safety bar that you push over onto a notched edge, that will stop the jack from lowering when you don't want it to?

 

[Hipporider]

Hippo, doesn't your jack have a mechanical safety bar that you push over onto a notched edge, that will stop the jack from lowering when you don't want it to?

Yeah,its been a while since ive worked on my bike and i forgot to use those mechanical safety bars, though i must confess, they dont give me much confidence actually