awa355
20th February 2015, 15:11
I had a look back through a year of reviews but couldn't find anything about bike lifts.
There isn't really anything to review but thought I would share my impressions of this bike lift. This is nothing new but its my first bike lift.
With the cruiser not having a centre stand (but has mounts on the chassis for one) I decided to splash out way more money than I should've and get a quick and simple means of lifting the back wheel off the deck for when doing maintanance.
For my previous cruiser I had made one of those homemade lifts out of 2 8x2's and a pipe handle. It was never that good. This bike needs a block between the lift rails and the frame otherwise the lift stats lifting on the exhaust at the rear.
The chassis rails on the XV250 are fairly narrow, I certainly wont be going near the bike without some form of additional bracing from the handle bars to the garage wall. The rear jacking point is the centre stand mounts. If any further forward, the front only lifts. I have made a jig with different thickness blocks to get an even lift.
The lift is quite heavy but seems well made. It should make rear wheel/chain maintanance a lot easier than shagging around with blocks of wood under each side.
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There isn't really anything to review but thought I would share my impressions of this bike lift. This is nothing new but its my first bike lift.
With the cruiser not having a centre stand (but has mounts on the chassis for one) I decided to splash out way more money than I should've and get a quick and simple means of lifting the back wheel off the deck for when doing maintanance.
For my previous cruiser I had made one of those homemade lifts out of 2 8x2's and a pipe handle. It was never that good. This bike needs a block between the lift rails and the frame otherwise the lift stats lifting on the exhaust at the rear.
The chassis rails on the XV250 are fairly narrow, I certainly wont be going near the bike without some form of additional bracing from the handle bars to the garage wall. The rear jacking point is the centre stand mounts. If any further forward, the front only lifts. I have made a jig with different thickness blocks to get an even lift.
The lift is quite heavy but seems well made. It should make rear wheel/chain maintanance a lot easier than shagging around with blocks of wood under each side.
309174
309175
309176