bike lift

[browder]

hey anybody seen blue prints of a bike lift
using a floor jack on this site
does anybody know where to find them
thanks g.b.

[LarryBart]

Browder Hi;

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Welcome to the board'
I don't recall where I got this and will convert the text and post it to as soon as I can. This may be what you are looking for or you could just go to .

www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?function=Search

Item No is 2792-3VGA $59.99 in store sale thru Dec,26

Lift prints follow.

Regards LarryBart

[browder]

thanks larry alady over at chopperunder ground
is needing a lift to teach a high school
class next term she's gonna help chop a
650 honda somebody donated for class
she goes by bykrmom thaks again g.b.

[slow rider]

I've been making a bike lift out of some scrap steel I saved up from jobs. Its similar to the plans above, but I made do with what I had. The question is, on the table I want a slot to put the front wheel in to keep the bike upright, I dont have a centre stand. I've seen one where the wheel is clamped, like in a vice. I keep thinking of those pushbike racks you get at schools. I can imagine if the wheel was clamped on the sides it would stay upright. I think hold down straps would be annoying and compress the forks unnecessarilly. Does anyone have one and does it work good? When I finish I will post some photos if it works.

[shifty]

There's some plans and pics similar here
www.afabonline.com/table_lift_plans.htm

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Also here is a great idea ... a short piece of plank and a 4' length of pipe
www.nightrider.com/biketech/bikelift.htm
sheesh I might try this one ...

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[slow rider]

afabonline has got just what I was looking for in customer pictures 3 & 6. Thanks for that, hope they dont mind if I copy.

[slow rider]

Well I built a clamp to hold the bike up, but I cant get the pictures to come on here. It doesn't work like it used to. I click browse, open the file, it uploads to imageshack, but thats as far as it goes. Its boring anyway.

[pops]

slowrider

I feel the same way. It was working just fine 'til some hotshot "improved" it. Now it's all but impossible to figure out. I gave up, too.

Might make a good poll question. "PUT IT BACK" would get my vote.

pops

[slow rider]

Yeah, I vote put it back too. That makes it 2-nil, we win. I wonder what happened to the images I uploaded to imageshack, maybe they own them now and can use them how they want. Can anybody give a step by step guide how to upload an image to here? Please?

[5twins]

Yes, they did make it a bit more complicated to post pics but here's what I do now. Hit the "Browse" and find your pic just like before. When you hit "Post It", you get a new window with many more choices than before. It seems you can't just click on one of them and have it appear in your post like before, you have to copy and paste it in. I usually use the "Hot Link for forums (1)" near the bottom of the page. That puts the image right in my post instead of linking to it. Here's a shot of the front wheel clamp on my HF lift table .....



I don't think it was designed to hold the bike up all by itself. I have the bike on the centerstand AND I use a tie down. The tie down needn't be super tight, compressing the forks all the way. With the clamp and centerstand already doing most of the work, the tie down is just some added insurance.

[slow rider]

Thanks. Its easy now I know. This is it with a lightweight bike for testing. It holds it up no worries. I made it so when the front disc hits the upright the wheel will be centred in the clamp.
Its made of scrap from my offcuts pile, thats why its not uniform, but thats recycling. Saves a long trip to town and money. Times are tough.

[5twins]

Well, that will certainly work. It's a much more substantial clamp than the one on mine so you probably don't need the tie downs. Very nice lift table, too. How about some more pics and info on it?

A nice feature on mine is a removable section of the table below the rear wheel. This makes rear tire changes easy because you can drop the wheel down and out from below the table.

[slow rider]

Well, you wouldn't use the type of steel I used, its just what I could get from the scrap steel bin on a job. The channel that I made the top and bottom rails out of has tapered sides on the inside, which made it hard to get the pivotting legs to fit snug in between so I cut some tapered washers off some left over channel and welded them in. I did this only on one side, the other side is a loose fit so the legs can float to where they want when raising. I had no square tube for the legs so I welded 2 angle-iron pieces together to make rectangle tube.( more unnecessary work) The dimensions I worked out from a good side-on picture, I new it was 8ft long, so I measured the picture with a ruler and worked out the scale, then I could measure each part. Mine is 7'6" long and 9"high when collapsed. Thats as low as I could make it with the jack I had, if I took the lifting pad off the jack I could have made it 8".
The pivot bolts are 10 mm 8.8 (high tensile) I might use 12mm if the xs weight bends them. The part that the jack lifts and the base the jack pushes on are welded with low hydrogen electrodes, 4816. I used 2 angle-irons welded together for the lifting beam. If it looks like bending I'll add a 3rd. Theres a little chain to hook the prop up with so its out of the way when lowering. Theres a prop to prop the ramp up with when lowering,too.
I cut notches in the channel for the prop to catch in. I want to adapt an old wind-up car jack to fit under the middle of the bike where the centre stand should be to lift the rear wheel up when needed. I have to knock up a car port now because the old car cant fit in the garage no more, and its weathering badly.

[5twins]

Very nice. I probably would have built my own too if that HF one wasn't on sale so cheap (about $250) a couple summers ago. I have that very same blue jack, had it for ages.

[Johannes]

The bike lift slowrider threw together is just what I was looking for to practice my welding on. Sitting on a bucket and working on my 80 SG is starting to get old. However, lying on the pavement to do an oil change has one benefit, the chicks in the hood would come over and chat while I lie there.... God bless the mini skirt!