Home Built Bike Lift - Harley Forum

unclepsycho · #1 01-04-2009, 05:31 PM

It's crude, but effective. The pic's show a buddy's uh...er....bike (honda) on there. we are cutting it all up for practice... it was a $100 bike with a $100 e-bay motor....anyway, I actually built the lift to re-build my other buddy's custom 95" harley on a Santee frame. It needed a lot of work after a T-bone with a female in a cage.... I lost all the pic's of that build to a computer crash......grrrrr.....I do have the road trip pics, but thats another story.
We needed (wanted) to get the bike off the ground to make working on it easier. so I cut up a bunch of heavy-wall fence posts and welded it together as you see here... The floor jack does great. I just guessed at the geometry untill it lifted right. I was alway gonna clean up the welds, paint it, blah blah, you know how that goes, the bike got runnin' and we went a ridin'.

shovelmike · #2 01-04-2009, 09:03 PM

Thanks, Unclepsycho, useful info since most of us don't have money to burn. Looks like it does the job well at minimum cost.
I couldn't help noticing the sports car in the background. MG? Doing a full restoration?

unclepsycho · #3 01-04-2009, 09:27 PM

yup a '74 Midget. dragged from a back yard about 4 years ago...had set for 20 years. replaced all hoses, brakes,master and slave on the clutch, tires. re-did the carbs. dual SU's. drove it for part of a summer and found out I am toooo tall and the car is tooooo low to the ground and it messed up an already bad knee getting up and out of it. so I am paintin' 'er and selling it. My heart really aint into it since I got bike projects too.

frisco-rigid · #4 01-05-2009, 12:24 AM

Oh yeah

That lift is to be proud of,, great job,, Yeah baby..!

1haugster1340 · #5 01-08-2009, 09:54 PM

That is a real nice lift! I'll be studing the pictures to see if I can duplicate it.

unclepsycho · #6 01-08-2009, 10:34 PM

cool, thanks everyone.
I could try to make a drawing of it with the measurements and figger out how to get it on this here computer. Gotta remember... it is home built, so as the front starts up...the back hesitates a bit, but then starts to come up too. I do have a pipe as a safety stop to hold it up in case the jack fails.
It is sometimes more fun to do all the figuring out on your own, but if ya want the measurements.... let me know and I can put something together.

darreldanger · #7 01-10-2009, 12:38 AM

Impressive

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Originally Posted by unclepsycho

It's crude, but effective. The pic's show a buddy's uh...er....bike (honda) on there. we are cutting it all up for practice... it was a $100 bike with a $100 e-bay motor....anyway, I actually built the lift to re-build my other buddy's custom 95" harley on a Santee frame. It needed a lot of work after a T-bone with a female in a cage.... I lost all the pic's of that build to a computer crash......grrrrr.....I do have the road trip pics, but thats another story.
We needed (wanted) to get the bike off the ground to make working on it easier. so I cut up a bunch of heavy-wall fence posts and welded it together as you see here... The floor jack does great. I just guessed at the geometry untill it lifted right. I was alway gonna clean up the welds, paint it, blah blah, you know how that goes, the bike got runnin' and we went a ridin'.

spotsart · #8 02-04-2009, 01:17 PM

Now thats what we need, we sell these things for 1100 and you built it for less than 100 lol.. you need to give it a good powder coat paint job so it looks real pro.

Good job!

if you need a powered bike lift check out this link... Rotary Revolution RXLDT 1,000 lbs. capacity Motorcycle Lift

unclepsycho · #9 02-04-2009, 10:15 PM

Kewl, Thanks,

A buddy was moving and sold me his air operated bike lift. so I have two now. If I need another one, I'll keep that link handy.

I do need to "finnish" that home built lift with paint or something. I will keep it since it is kinda fun to see people's faces when I use it.

evoKENevo · #10 02-05-2009, 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spotsart

Now thats what we need, we sell these things for 1100 and you built it for less than 100 lol.. you need to give it a good powder coat paint job so it looks real pro.

Good job!

if you need a powered bike lift check out this link... Rotary Revolution RXLDT 1,000 lbs. capacity Motorcycle Lift

Welcome aboard,spotsart
I got my Direct-Lift delivered to the door for $815** incld'g Hvy Dty scissor jack...and I guess I bought a little to soon. Because,last I checked they were offering the $99** scissor jack FREE with your order.

I did'nt get the model with the drop-panel...but have found that it's actually easier to R&R wheels without it...using the scissor jack to raise & lower the bike on the lift as needed...rather than trying to wrestle with the wheel in the air while trying to align the brake rotor/caliper as well as axle and drive belt/pulley at the same time.

Oh,yeah...and it's all powder coated,too. Maybe you'd care to offer the members here a similar deal !!!
I mean "hey" look at the money you just saved on "free advertising"...gotta be worth somethin'...right ???

BTW although Direct-Lift is'nt advertising here in the AIM forum...they do in the magazine. So, I'm not uncomfortable with giving them a little inadvertent plug here.