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anybody with a cherry picker (engine hoist) wanna help me out and make some cash...?

need to pick my bike up off the ground so i can put the front wheel back on. my front stand failed while i had the rim off the bike. it's too low to get a jack under it at this point so i need to strap and hoist it up.

luckily i was standing right there about to wire tie my calipers up so they weren't hanging by the brake lines when it happened, so it didn't fall over.

i have a couple ideas but that is the easiest way.

Get a pair of ratchet straps.
Hook them to the L brackets that hold the garage opener to the ceiling...near where the bolts are.
Make sure they are good bolts/screws going into the support beams.

Attach the other ends to the bike, around the handlebars or triple tree.
Ratchet it up.

Thats what I do when I need to remove the front wheel.

Once done, release the ratchets both at the same time and the bike will drop straight down.


(you need a rear stand to stabilize the bike though)

what part of town you in?

- J

pm me if you need help be up till about 11

nothing can be strapped to the ceiling or otherwise. not my garage so can fuck anything up. it could be done with a 10' strong A frame ladder but i don't have that either. lol i've used one before.

i am in north, just north of the cannery.

off of the 15 and craig

(03-20-2014 09:45 PM)tomy Wrote: [ -> ]off of the 15 and craig

yeah

Tomy helped me out, thanks again man.

(03-22-2014 03:28 PM)1is2many Wrote: [ -> ]Tomy helped me out, thanks again man.

Your welcome thats what were all about .