Now a clever person would.....

[davebetty]

Now being a person who has travelled through big long bits of desert and fallen off his lardy 230kg all laden bike 20-30 times a day and got through a good 8 litres of water to do this...

I was thinking...

The biggest problem with picking up a heavy bike is finding a good place to get hold of it ( I have bent handlebars on pick ups before). usually you have to undress the bike to make grip points available and the weight of the bike more manageable.

It is a total horror, total sweat out.

How about if some clever person found a point on the majority of popular bikes used for travel where a small attachment could be bolted on. Then an extendable lightweight pole could be slotted on to make righting the bike dead easy using leverage. reduce the effort to 20% of the original with no more than 2 metres of length.

I'm not interested in trying to make money out of it, but if you can do it and you can make it work, go for it. However, please mention my name for coming up with the idea, because it is recorded here and I would hate to embarrass you.

I think it is bleeding brilliant.

Cheers

Dave

PS Martian lander using 50cc two stroke to launch from Bromsgrove in final stages of planning

[mcguyver]

There was a woman at a Horizons meeting here in Australia a few years ago that had just that.
From memory she bolted a tube to the fram that a long handle slotted into and she was able to easliy lift her bike.
Worked a treat.

[backofbeyond]

Sounds like an idea but how tough would this pole need to be? If you're trying to get a 250kg bike upright with it I can imagine you'd be putting quite a bit of bending force through it. If it's not up to the job it'll just snap in the middle and if it's solid enough it's likely to be so heavy you might not want to take it with you in the first place.

[Magnon]

Originally Posted by davebetty

Now being a person who has travelled through big long bits of desert and fallen off his lardy 230kg all laden bike 20-30 times a day and got through a good 8 litres of water to do this...

Been there done that, however righting the bike was not so hard in our case as we had such enormous panniers which were fitted low down that the bike just couldn't fall over too far - and there were two of us to push/pull it upright.

Even so, if I'm going to do it again the bike plus luggage will weigh no more than 160kg which should be rideable. Anything heavier is no fun to ride.

[ChrisFS]

Originally Posted by davebetty

I'm not interested in trying to make money out of it, but if you can do it and you can make it work, go for it. However, please mention my name for coming up with the idea, because it is recorded here and I would hate to embarrass you.

Do it yourself and you won't need someone to mention you

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
- Jim Rohn

[caminito]

Old lady in USA used a hydraulic jack on her full size harley, can't remember where it was placed though
Smaller than a 2m pole .....

[ChrisFS]

With a little bit of adjustment here's the answer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerjmgPcXbQ

[Gipper]

Us 4x4 cage drivers have been using these things for years, the large versions will lift one end or the side of my 2.5 ton Land Rovers easily, they have a big footprint and don't sink into soft ground. I try to not run my bike engine when the bike is on its side, but one of these could work for the guys riding the big 1200cc 600 lb + bikes around, the material is quite tough, just have to use some heat resistant cloth (nomex style) on top for lifting close to the hot exhaust though. It would also need an adaptor to fit over the outside of the large exhaust pipes we have on our bikes. It might not get it fully vertical, but it would bring it up off the ground a ways very quickly even with the engine at idle


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILTlKPu3Zs


if you put it into production I want a cut