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    lol yes. THE SKYHOOK. why didnt I think of that before.

    Thanks for all your help peoples!
    I only posted this because of the global economic crisis

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    Quote Originally Posted by pyrocam
    lol yes. THE SKYHOOK. why didnt I think of that before.

    Thanks for all your help peoples!
    This is recommended BMW practice when overhauling the rear end. Suspend the bike from the ceiling. I am not joking
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Quote Originally Posted by pyrocam
    lol yes. THE SKYHOOK. why didnt I think of that before.

    Thanks for all your help peoples!
    This is recommended BMW practice when overhauling the rear end. Suspend the bike from the ceiling. I am not joking
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Quote Originally Posted by pyrocam
    Thanks, Ill try the block of wood thing tomorow but do the triangle one anyway. take some photo's

    Ive got the week off before my new job so heaps of time.

    fake edit: I dont care about going over the bridge anymore. any ride is a good ride.
    Two wooden boxes (Like nails used to come in)
    put one under the right hand foot peg mount
    push the bike to the right
    the left side of the bike will rise
    kick the other box under the left foot peg mount
    if the boxes are the right height the rear wheel should be off the ground

    Or if you can bring some 16 guage 1 inch round steel tube to my place
    (Kaukapakapa) I'll bend up a stand for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion
    This is recommended BMW practice when overhauling the rear end. Suspend the bike from the ceiling. I am not joking
    Hang it from a balloon full of weasel farts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pixie
    Hang it from a balloon full of weasel farts.
    I did have it hanging from the deck roof rafters but (A) I dropped my bike bringing it down and (B) now the rafters are all skew

    have you any weasels I can squeeze the farts out of?
    I only posted this because of the global economic crisis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pixie
    Hang it from a balloon full of weasel farts.
    A little-known fact is that weasel farts, captured in a light oil, are used as the bubbles in spirit levels. They are used for this purpose because they are always exactly the same size.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by pyrocam
    I did have it hanging from the deck roof rafters but (A) I dropped my bike bringing it down and (B) now the rafters are all skew

    have you any weasels I can squeeze the farts out of?
    I shot one at christmas.A friendly hawk disposed of it for me.

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    Another idea:
    two axle stands and a length of steel to lift the bike by the swing arm,just in front of the rear wheel

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    A little-known fact is that weasel farts, captured in a light oil, are used as the bubbles in spirit levels. They are used for this purpose because they are always exactly the same size.

    Alas.Once , in the days of craftsmen, when a fart bubble placer would work for weeks on a single spirit level, to ensure that the bubble was perfectly disposed, this was so. I remember as a lad hanging around the door of the works in Ponsonby, watching the fart placers with childish awe. Occasionally a fart would escape and go floating off, and my special treat was to be allowed to chase after, capture and return it.

    But mass production has overtaken the spirit level industry. It is the old story, mass production comes in and craftsmanship and quality go out the window.

    The present case is more boring. The bubbles now come from the pig abbatoirs. When the pigs are slaughtered , they release a last enormous fart. These are captured, and many of them are compressed together (the technology was taken from that used to make cheap pressed ham. There is no truth however in the rumours that the farts are compressed in the ham compressing machines. Special fart compressors are essential). The compressed fart is then extruded to make a long sausage like extrusion, and tiny lengths are chopped off by a very precise chopper. These expand when put into the oil, and as a result of the compression and the precision of the chopper they are near enough the same size. As I said, the quality and romance are gone. Ichabod, ichabod.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    So that fart bubble has to be bang on in the middle eh? Arduous work and perhaps a skill passed down the generations.....but I have always wondered - on a builders level...are the horizontal fart bubble and vertical fart bubble a matched pair,from the same fart sequence like...? an exacting job.I had a brain fart once...I wish I had been able to capture it,but I never knew what happened....one minute I was ok,the next talking nonsense with no idea what was happening.....I'm going to sneak up on the next one,keep it in a jar and keep it alive with some edward Lear.
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    Has a beer crate been mentioned yet?

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    Why don't you just get one of those sexy motorcycle jacks?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonez
    Has a beer crate been mentioned yet?
    Does beer still come in crates?
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion
    Occasionally a fart would escape and go floating off, and my special treat was to be allowed to chase after, capture and return it.

    .
    I believe this occurance was the inspiration for the Ren and Stimpy episode
    "son of Stimpy",where Stimpson 'gives birth 'to a stinky son who goes missing and is later found frozen in a block of ice.

    The Japanese spirit level industry has developed a synthetic weasel fart composed of a secret mixture of noble gasses,predominantly triton,which glows in the dark.

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