Workshop Bike Trolley

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Saw a place sell a basic trolley where you wheel your bike onto it, and the trolley has wheels where you can them maneuver your bike around a workshop or garage. I've lost the info I had from the NEC bike show? Anyone seem similar?
 
How heavy is the GSA in kg?

A: found the answer = 259kg, so this mover could take the weight of the bike then
 
I have a moto-mover and find it very useful as my garage is full of other sh** and pushbikes. Parked in the centre allows me to move the bike to either side to access other crap like hosepipes or cycles.
 
Gizmo said:
Try this http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/index.php/cPath/23_24_60 at £79.99
I have one for my GSA and it works fine.:thumb2
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What are the castors like? Do they roll over garage floors with ease. My garage floor is not as smooth as you would find in a house. It has small ridges across the floor where the concrete has been leveled. The other thing I can see happening is when you move the bike sideways at least one of the wheels will be scuffing the floor preventing easy maneuvering surely?
 
ph4824 said:
What are the castors like? Do they roll over garage floors with ease. My garage floor is not as smooth as you would find in a house. It has small ridges across the floor where the concrete has been leveled. The other thing I can see happening is when you move the bike sideways at least one of the wheels will be scuffing the floor preventing easy maneuvering surely?
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I have to manoeuvre the bike (1200RT) around a yard that is layed with 9" sets. Sometimes you do have to push and pull a bit to get the wheels over the gaps or change direction - directly pushing the trolley with your foot can help

Yes, the front wheel does drag but this can be helped by unloading it. I keep an old backpack with a small sandbag in it hanging next to the bike. Laying this over the pillion seat then counterbalances most of that drag

Getting the bike onto it's centre stand on the trolley is made much easier if I sling the backpack over my shoulder before standing on the lever arm

All sounds a bit of a palaver but the trolley has saved an awful lot of hassle, and I'm sure, several dropsies. An excellent bit of kit
 
Hein Gericke

ph4824 said:
What are the castors like? Do they roll over garage floors with ease. My garage floor is not as smooth as you would find in a house. It has small ridges across the floor where the concrete has been leveled. The other thing I can see happening is when you move the bike sideways at least one of the wheels will be scuffing the floor preventing easy maneuvering surely?
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My garage floor is not smooth and has small ripples where the builder carried out screeding. It causes no problem and the rollers change direction without any significant increase in effort.The individual wheel locks also work well.

Hope this helps:thumb2
 
Gizmo said:
My garage floor is not smooth and has small ripples where the builder carried out screeding. It causes no problem and the rollers change direction without any significant increase in effort.The individual wheel locks also work well.

Hope this helps:thumb2
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Individual wheel locks?? Is this the motorcyle (RED) mover or the mover that the centre stand sits on?
 
Cheers Rob,

Might well one give a try myself. Good price. Folk here are known for being, erm, careful with money, too!

(Dutch)Bryn.
 
check 1st

Hi Paul,

I live in Euro land, so got one of the cheaperoo german ones. same idea as H-G jobbie. Sending it back today.
Geometry of GS (1150, anyway) centre stand works well if you're not trying to lift the bike an inch and a half higher. (ie, from relatively lower point)
To 'see' what I mean, try putting a piece of wood an inch &1/2 or so thick under the stand before operating it. It can be done, but I don't think the supposed handiness the stand should give weighs too well against phsyio costs.
Mebbe H-G one is lower, but look before you leap.

DB.
 
A friend of mine bought one of the cheap ones at a Show last year - about £55 - he used it on a less than smooth garage floor, and before long the cheap caster wheels collapsed!
He luckily has managed to source some replacement wheels - but feels, in hindsight, it was a bad purchase.

I managed to buy a S/H Telefix Motoboy mover from eBay this month, and am delighted with it - really well made, and with double nylon wheels, rather than single plastic ones.

I paid £45 delivered - they are available at about £80 new - but well worth the money.
I use mine for my 1100GS in the conservatory, on a loose mat, and find I can put the GS on the stand single-handed, and to move it about is easy - front wheel on the deck - pull the back over, then rear wheel down, and pull the front over. The bike balances perfectly on the stand - whichever wheel I put on the ground stays there - and it all feels very secure.

Brilliant buy - wouldn't be without it!!

Mike
 
This one looks interesting. From what I can gather, it goes under the centre stand but you can add a side-arm so you can put the mover under the rear wheel and the sidestand on the side-arm.
 
Well I bought this one http://www.mamut.net/webshopzonneveld/subdet32.htm

They cost £89 plus postage from http://www.mandp.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?catRef=563209. I actually bought two, one for each bike but the second one arrived with paint flaking in a couple of areas so I'm waiting for my 3rd to arrive before sending the other one back. I tested this on both bikes in my garage the other day. The garage has a roughly finished floor and the BMW with a full tank was still a handful but I did manage to move it around. It would be better with a smoother floor I think but the big bike mover is extremely well built and strong and the castors are large with rubber wheels - not the plastic ones. My other bike is a Yamaha RD350R and that was easier to maneuver around using this devise. I can highly recommend this product!

Paul.
 
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