Bike lifts

Makro are flogging off some nice hydraulic bike lifts for 39.99+vat from
wednesday for those who have (or can blag) a Makro card.

Almost certainly a cheap chinese import, but they look like good value.

 

The Makro ones have been selling at 69.95+vat for several months, they are
very solidly made and look very stable. I have never known Makro to sell
crap. Rated up to 400Kg they are rather heavy weighing in at 35.5 Kgs.

Take a look at http://www.makro.co.uk/servlet/PB/menu/1072746_l2/index.html
select "Non Food Promo 18" and take a look on the last-but-one page of the
PDF. It actually looks more solid than the Machine Mart version.


Your opinion may vary, but worth taking a look at if you need one.

 

Wot the boxhead said. Mine came with a couple of ratchet straps to cinch
the bike down to the rails of the lift, plus an adapter plate with screw
jacks and vee blocks to adapt to bikes with odd undercarriages. I used
the adapter plate as a starting point for a custom weldment for my SV:

http://www.visi.com/~olsonm/lift/

 

The item on page 27 did cause a minor "Moore Eyebrow" moment

 

It is actually a platform lift so it is handy for other uses.
You wheel it in from the side and jack it up under the frame below the
engine. This leaves both wheels free for brake work etc.
Some dafter bikes have bits projecting below the frame, so you may need to
contrapt some packing to make sure that it is actually lifting the frame.
As with all lifts it is wise to add some rachet straps to prevent the
bike tipping.

Naturally some idiot will end up jacking the sump drain plug, but however
much you make things foolproof the world will always manage to produce
a bigger idiot.

 

Exactly. Bikes that cheap must be shite.

 

Well your Turbo should have bottom frame rails, but it's also got an
exhaust that sits below them. I can't think of any >125cc bikes I've
ever owned where this type of lift would be suitable.

 

IIRC they were originally designed for Hardlys.

 

Yup.

And this Boxhead here has managed to acquire the one model that doesn't
work with these stands...

Oh well, guess that's an excuse to buy a proper lift when I'm back from
holiday.

 

It isn't in your sig then?

 

Not yet, no.

 

Ah perhaps motzarella or me missed something!

 

Only if it's still missing at this point

 

Ahhhhhhhhhh