(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Jan 10, 5:08�pm, Joseph Donner <josephdonne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> How can I move, all alone, a disabled motorcycle (heavy, no front wheel).
>>
>> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck but
>> how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) onto and off
>> the truck.
>
> Just give me a call I will come over and put it in my van Then
> happily drive away
>
> What brand bike is it?
>
> Bikers tend to be a friendly group, look for other local bikers they
> might help you move it
Agree

If you don't have anybody to help you, you shouldn't be buying a bike.
This isn't the last time you're gonna have to haul it somewhere.
you can rent a low-profile tilt-bed trailer. It's MUCH safer than trying
to load it into a pickup, wheels or not.
Again, DO NOT try to do this yourself.
Imagine yourself pinned under the thing with a broken leg and
nobody around.

On Jan 10, 2:08*pm, Joseph Donner <josephdonne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How can I move, all alone, a disabled motorcycle (heavy, no front wheel).
>
> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck but
> how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) onto and off
> the truck.

Lots of rental trucks have lift gates.

You'd definitely need tie down straps and some
way to move the bike around as you're getting it
on and off the truck. Maybe strapping it to a dolly
would work.

On Jan 10, 2:08*pm, Joseph Donner <josephdonne...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck but
> how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) onto and off
> the truck.

U-Haul rents box vans with powered lift gates and a cargo floor that's
lower than the typical pickup truck bed and U-Haul also rents very low
motorcycle trailers with loading ramps.

Once your don't have a front wheel at all, snag an abandoned
supermarket shopping cart and hacksaw the basket part off so you can
rest the motorcycle forks on the wheeled bottom half of the cart.

You can probable use the axle clamps on the bottom of the forks to
secure the motorcycle to the shopping cart when you have to maneuver
the motorcycle around the garage.

Sawed-off shopping carts are good for moving engines around the garage
too.

Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk
crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using
milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a
group...

Perhaps he used his motor cycle to get parts for the car?

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"Bob F" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:hidnoc$hb8$(E-Mail Removed)...

I remember a friend in college commenting that the thing he
used his bike most
for was going the the shop for parts for it.

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:08:44 -0800, Joseph Donner wrote:

> How can I move, all alone, a disabled motorcycle (heavy, no front wheel).
>
> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck but
> how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame) onto and off
> the truck.

Have a car?

http://crossquote.com/funny-crazy-re...r-bike-tow.jpg

;-)

Gael <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk
> crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using
> milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a
> group...

<Considers garage and shuffles feet embarrassedly>


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On 1/11/2010 10:16, Red Green wrote:
> Gael<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:c0336de9-8cc9-4036-b0d2-(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> On Jan 10, 2:08 pm, Joseph Donner<josephdonne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck
>>> but how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame)
>>> onto and of
>> f
>>> the truck.
>>
>> U-Haul rents box vans with powered lift gates and a cargo floor that's
>> lower than the typical pickup truck bed and U-Haul also rents very low
>> motorcycle trailers with loading ramps.
>>
>> Once your don't have a front wheel at all, snag an abandoned
>> supermarket shopping cart and hacksaw the basket part off so you can
>> rest the motorcycle forks on the wheeled bottom half of the cart.
>>
>> You can probable use the axle clamps on the bottom of the forks to
>> secure the motorcycle to the shopping cart when you have to maneuver
>> the motorcycle around the garage.
>>
>> Sawed-off shopping carts are good for moving engines around the garage
>> too.
>
> They were good indestructible buggies too.

They were also pretty handy for the market that paid ~ $120/each for them...

>
>>
>> Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk
>> crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using
>> milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a
>> group...
>>
>>
>

On 1/11/2010 10:16, Red Green wrote:
> Gael<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:c0336de9-8cc9-4036-b0d2-(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> On Jan 10, 2:08 pm, Joseph Donner<josephdonne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas? I'm all alone and don't have a pickup. I can rent a truck
>>> but how do I get the heavy bike (rear wheel and engine and frame)
>>> onto and of
>> f
>>> the truck.
>>
>> U-Haul rents box vans with powered lift gates and a cargo floor that's
>> lower than the typical pickup truck bed and U-Haul also rents very low
>> motorcycle trailers with loading ramps.
>>
>> Once your don't have a front wheel at all, snag an abandoned
>> supermarket shopping cart and hacksaw the basket part off so you can
>> rest the motorcycle forks on the wheeled bottom half of the cart.
>>
>> You can probable use the axle clamps on the bottom of the forks to
>> secure the motorcycle to the shopping cart when you have to maneuver
>> the motorcycle around the garage.
>>
>> Sawed-off shopping carts are good for moving engines around the garage
>> too.
>
> They were good indestructible buggies too.

They were also pretty handy for the market that paid ~ $120/each for them...

>
>>
>> Also, while you're scrounging shopping carts, get a few plastic milk
>> crates to store parts in. Impecunious motorcyclists have been using
>> milk crates for motorcycle workstands since the Beatles were a
>> group...
>>
>>
>

On Jan 11, 7:18*am, George <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> They were also pretty handy for the market that paid ~ $120/each for them....

Well, you do have a certain point, but I wasn't suggesting that the OP
go out and steal a shopping cart that's in good condition and chop it
up.

Despite the fact that some newer shopping carts have automatic
immobilization devices that prevent the cart from being taken off the
store's parking lot, and the fact that some stores pay rewards to
people who go out and collect stray carts, some carts will eventually
wind up a long way from the store, as homeless people use them to
carry all their possessions.

Carts will wind up in rivers and flood control channels and parking
structures, and some of these carts could be put to good use by
impecunious riders who want a free engine cart.

The supermarket would not want a shabby looking cart in their store
anyway.

And, the store's insurance company has already *paid* for the loss of
the missing cart.

And, if you visit the same store 12,000 times over a 33 year period,
your grocery purchases have probably amortized the cost of the cart...

On Jan 11, 7:23*am, Van Chocstraw <boobooililili...@roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> Much cheaper than a tiny new Kubota with a loader. $12,000 vs $2,000.

The agricultural equipment dealer down the street sells Kubota
tractors that have four six-foot diameter wheels with narrow tires. I
can't figure out what they're good for, since regular tractors have
two narrow spaced smaller diameter wheels up front so they will follow
the furrow while plowing...