Back on the bike :-)

Centrestand is fitted (thank you Triumph for making one of the
centrestand stop bolts impossible to do up because it is obscured by
the footplate that you have to do up before doing up the centrestand
bolts)

Turntable is in place in the garage.

Procedure - ride into garage, stop over turntable, put bike onto
centrestand (not easy - it weighs a ton!) with centrestand feet on
turntable.
Lean weight onto luggage rack to lift nose of bike, walk bike round to
point nose at garage door, relax.

No more struggling to push bike backwards between two parked cars up a
graveled slope..

Happy one is!

In fact - so happy that I went for a nice long bimble about the
Wiltshire/Berkshire countryside last Saturday during with much fun was
had.

By 'eck - these Tigers are quick once you realise that it will go round
corners like it is on rails and that (unlike my previous bikes) the
engine is happiest round the mid-range rather than at the top 20% of
the range.

To all the people I overtook (2 and 4 wheels) - I'm sorry - the bike
made me do it. Honest.

Phil.

 

If it's a gravel slope, why can't you go in backwards into the garage?
Or does the drive slope up again before it gets to the garage?

 

muck@_TEETH_rulex.net (Muck) wrote in muck@_TEETH_rulex.net:

He doesn't need to. He's installed a turntable ;-)

 

Exactly.

 

Well.. heh.. yes. I must admit to being a little lazy myself with my
Land rover. I used to park so I could drive in and out in a forward
direction[1].

[1]Through or over anything in the way usually.

 

Three options I can think of:

1) A garage with two main doors so you can ride straight through.

2) A double width garage with enough room to do a 180 in.

3) Park rear wheel in large oil slick. Apply front brake, give it beans and
flick the bike round.

 

Or

4) There is no garage?

 

There is usually 2 cars on the slope - mine and my neighbours - with
only a narrow gap between them. I just didn't fancy backing down a
gravel slope into the small gap that is there..

And yes - there is a small slope up into the garage.

Phil

 

Considered that. Too pikey ;-)

 

In an open air car park for example, you've only usually got bushes,
plants high curbs and the odd bank. Nothing to worry about in a Landy,
but would tend to take the sump off a car. Metal fences can be a
stopper, as can bits of I beam fixed in the ground.

Basically, if I could drive out over it and not get stuck and get away
with it, I would.

 

Hmm.. plus the gravel. Gravel is a right pain isn't it..

 

Rope scribbled:

Leave it on the road

I imagine getting it up and down that driveway would be even more fun
in the wet/cold/ice/snow conditions.

 

When I say gravel I actually mean "spare hardcore chippings that the
builders had no more use for". Some of it is in fairly large chunks and
there is also patches where there appears to be cement dust mixed in
with it.

Add the fact that there is about a 2" lip at the top of the slope where
the tarmac cresent edge stones are and getting a bike (or car!) up and
down becomes interesting - as in "make sure you put the wheels in
exactly the right place or you scrape the floor pan on the stone lip".

Builders eh? Dontcha just love them? Especially when the original plans
specified that the drive was to be block paved..

Phil

 

The cement dust will be the 'gravel' eating away at the cement under it,
because of the actions of the car / bike tyres.

That'll get worse then. Get a Landy. Seriously though, sounds like it
wants sorting sometime.

Builders, and pikeys selling a few wheel barrow loads of crushed flint
that stick in your tyres on your bikes, and that your dumb land lady
payed £500 to have deposited.