You guys take real good care of your old iron. Thanks for the pics. Good color. Large format camera?
Here's a parallelogram (Duo-Lift®) to get the machines off the ground. With a "Creeper" wheeled cart (Clarinda, Iowa), they make a good combination.
http://www.lislecorp.com/tool_detail.cfm?detail=1373
You can scoot around both sides of the machine, on a concrete or clay floor, since the #98702 creeper has 2" rubber wheels. The Oceanside Harley dealer, "Sherm" used Duo-Lifts and creeper carts in the 70-80's to early 90's. He and his mechanic-son attached big coffee cans to each side of the "Creeper" and filled them with hand tools.
You could make a Duo-Lift.
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I noticed the beaches look pretty nice. Are there any waves over there? Are there any "point breaks"? (a small peninsula of land jutting out into the ocean). The waves wrap around the point and peel into a bay. Like the land and ocean configurations at Malibu, but it doesn't have to be a huge point like Malibu to produce good waves. The steeper-to-the-beach bottom configurations, the faster the wave will wrap.
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/beach...ns-malibu.html {Note: While this is a "low-day" for ocean swells, on a strong south swell, waves can wrap around the big point and all the way to the pier.} The area looks desolate because it's a flattened aerial-pic, but actually it's a confluence of
deep canyons east of 101.
Being a
land point, jutting out into the ocean, creates a wind harbor, and the coastal mountains hold onto a lot of ocean-fed atmosphere - so it's darker and more mysterious inland (across Hwy. 101), than right at the beach.
The Chumash Indians lived there for 4,000 years before 1542. They had it all to themselves.
There has to be surfers in Cuba?
Rarely does a wave break anywhere in the world that no one is riding, if not
four people, crowding-out each other for the same wave.
That's what I like about Big Twins. It's like personal surfing without the crowds, but you can ride with friends and still get the same
de-ionization that you would from surfing in salt water - except on a bike, you de-ionize by having the wind rip past your head at 55-60 mph - and you don't have to wear a wetsuit.
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I'll snap a few pics of the Superior® Duo-Lift today, and you can weld-up your own version.
(This is later style that uses 1" tube instead of 1-1/4" like the original.)
The lift is collapsible.
The hinge sleeve (collar) is 2" wide, the width of the lift is 23", the 10" x 1-1/2" x 3/16 end plates are rounded on the top, flat on the bottom. All of the cross-straps are 1-1/2 x 3/16.
The bottom width-rails of the lift, are set 5/8" above the ground (bottom edge of the side plates), which makes (4) short legs for stability.
Short weld-beads are all that's needed as collar-stops.
The 22" handle length is too short, you'll need a 10" extension or a 32" length handle.
The basic components are two different diameters of (1/8" gauge) tube, 3/16 steel plate, and 1-1/4" square tube for the handle. There needs to be two pins, one to
lock the lift in the "up" position and the other to
lock the handle position.
http://www.superior-cycle.com/
{Note: This obsolete lift was found by an employee, digging through their parts loft, upon reading a post at
http://flatheadpower.com/ that I was searching for an obsolete Duo-Lift.
The Superior® lift is a later version of the original Duo-Lift® that was once made in, I believe, Colorado. I'll post a pic of it for reference. The 1-1/2" Duo tubes are easier to handle, and to less effort lift the machine, but they're both versatile lifts that fold, and everyone should have one.}
These were engineered using 1-1/2" tubing and SAE cut washers tacked to the ends as cover plates for the tubes. Duo-Lift® also made a 3-piece , expanded metal and 1-1/2" tube, sectional tailgate ramps for Big Twins. It was a great line of products.
Harlista Harley-Davidson® of Cuba 
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