
Originally Posted by
Mint Sauce
With regard to picking the bike up. I was shown the following technique to make it easier and to save the back (very important in my more progressed years). Stand with your back to the bike (seat and handle bar end!), crouch, grab bars with one hand and grab rail or the like with the other, lift with legs as per weight lifters, as the bike starts to come up dig in the heels and walk the bike up by pushing your butt against it (leverage effect), take this last step at an easy pace so that you do not end up pushing the bike over and find yourself sitting on top of it.
That is the way I was taught to pick em up too. Managed to get the Wing upright the one and only time it lay down on me (luckily while stopped, so no damage.) I managed to get 400kgs vertical again, but it was a struggle.
ALWAYS use your legs to lift a bike, otherwise you may knacker your back.
Keep the shiny side upright, Rhino.
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