Lifting a bike.. How?

Hi,

I was wondering whats the easiest way to pick up a bike to get it in to
the back of a transit van...?

I have read that you can lift it with a pair of scaffolding poles.
Would these go through the wheels or through the frame and under the
head stock?

How many people do you think it would take to lift a fairly modern
sports bike?

Cheers,
Dan

 

Do it yourself with a scaffold plank.


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emerged from their own little world to say

Sounds like hard work.

Steal a van with a tail lift first.

 

http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles2/www.kicken.com-motor.laden.mpg

 

Heh. Faked, but very well done.

 

You even get away with a ginge there .. timing is everything!

 

Why TF would you have to lift it? Unless it is so far damaged that it
won't wheel, in which case any way will do or yet better let the
scrapper take it away. If it will whell, a scaffold plank does most
folks, or as suggested elsewhere (and my personal choice) a van with a
tail lift: wheel it on to the lift parallel and tight to the back of
the van, lift and a quick spin on the sidestand and it's in.

That would be silly. The amount of damage you'd do to the paintwork
alone would pay for recovery or at least hire of a tail lift enabled
van. That would be a hell of a dead lift for four strong blokes -
and in any case, you be bound to find that the poles would be too long
to get in the van ;-)

Four. Done it with three and a deal of grunting. Two on the front
wheel, rest wheel on lip of load area. One on the front holding,
while the other goes round to the back and then two lift the back
wheel up and in, guided by the man on the front. Best with a Renault
Trafic rather than a Transit - lower lip to the load area, see.

You don't want to think about lifting a sports bike with scaffold
poles though - all that plastic gets in the way.

 

elyob emerged from their own little world to say

The url may have been posted before but in the context it is not a ginge,
rather an illustrated suggestion.

 

came up with the following;:

Offer a pikey a fiver ...

Maybe you could, and maybe you couldn't ....

I wouldn't try it.

Three make it easy, but it can be done with two. It's easiest (we found) to
wheel the bike to the van rear first. One stands in the van to guide and
steady the bike. Other two get either side and lift the bikes rear end into
the van holding the swingarm. Bloke in van holds it whilst the two go to
the front, lift the bike with the bottoms of the fork legs anf handlebars.

Or get a hiab equippped flat-bed Transit ... Pikeys again ...