Mobile Motorcycle Table

I'm always out of space! Right now, I'm working on several bikes and the 72 Norton 750 Commando I need to rebuild is in the way. To resolved this, I built another of my mobile motorcycle tables. Thinking that others might be interested in the idea, I've documented this one here: http://www.gregmarsh.com/MC/Norton_1972.aspx You'll need to scroll down a few pictures to see the table. Right now, I have two in this size and two smaller. It's nice to roll the bike and it's parts out of the way on the work table while waiting for parts. While a lift is nice, I find these tables to be much better and much less costly.

Good looking design. There's room for a beer cooler on the lower deck!

I made one many years ago out of a long steel table frame just cut to the width I wanted it and cut the legs down to the height I wanted with big casters with locking brakes I have built a few bikes on it now and it has my Manxman project bike on it now but its been a while since I have done any work on it, it sits in a unused part of my shed and just wheel it out when I want to do some work on the project, I have a removeable ramp that has locking pins in it to push the bikes onto it or off it, when its put aside I can store other things under it or use it as another work bench.

Ashley

Nice looking bench, but looking at those pics, I gotta say, your idea of 'always out of space' is a bit different to mine !!

marshg246 said:

I'm always out of space! Right now, I'm working on several bikes and the 72 Norton 750 Commando I need to rebuild is in the way. To resolved this, I built another of my mobile motorcycle tables. Thinking that others might be interested in the idea, I've documented this one here: http://www.gregmarsh.com/MC/Norton_1972.aspx You'll need to scroll down a few pictures to see the table. Right now, I have two in this size and two smaller. It's nice to roll the bike and it's parts out of the way on the work table while waiting for parts. While a lift is nice, I find these tables to be much better and much less costly.

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ive been making those tables for years {minus the wheels} good design.

Thanks for putting that up , one of these tables is definitely in my future, will be refreshing to get up off the floor, bet my body will be more flexible after a day in the shed ....
Craig

Craig said:

Thanks for putting that up , one of these tables is definitely in my future, will be refreshing to get up off the floor, bet my body will be more flexible after a day in the shed ....
Craig

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For me there's not much worse than working on a bike on the floor these days. I can stand all day, but getting up from my knees is getting harder by the day and sitting in a chair bent over working is about as bad. I like the tables so much that when someone brings a bike by for a little help, I'll set one of mine down off the table and put theirs on to work on it. For instance, a guy is bringing his 68 Triumph 500 to me Saturday to cleanup his wiring and to install Tri-Spark. Even though that's a quick job, it will happen on a table.

BTW, I'm 6'1" tall. The height of the table is good for me, but any taller would be too tall. If you're significantly taller or shorter, you can change the leg length. I have almost 8" of space under it so my shop crane will fit. The first two I made were much closer to the floor and the legs were longer. This gave more storage space but I have to use a ramp to get bikes on and off those two. So, after you've made the top and bottom and decided how high off the floor, it's a good idea to experiment with the leg lengths to suit you.

I had a similar table but I built a dolly into the base that could be lowered thus making the table mobile.



In the end it was just easier to get a HF lift. It sucked getting a Norton up and down off the table. Screw that.

swooshdave said:

I had a similar table but I built a dolly into the base that could be lowered thus making the table mobile.

In the end it was just easier to get a HF lift. It sucked getting a Norton up and down off the table. Screw that.

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There's a guy on YouTube who has a table that is stationary but he lifts the whole table with the bike on it and moves the table. I sometimes move 2 or 3 tables in a day as I move from bike to bike and the storage underneath is very important to me. If I had room for four motorcycle lifts, I would do that. In this case four motorcycles can take as little as 6' x 8' and it takes seconds to roll the one I need to work on next to an open area.

No one has asked about wheel locks. Often, the last things I do are the wheels. Once they are on, I get rid of the lift under the frame by screwing on a simple 2x4 wheel lock (front or rear-makes no difference) and using straps just like you would on a normal motorcycle lift table. The wheel lock prevents the bike from moving forward and backward, is only 3-1/2" high, and has a board on the end the allows me to screw it to the end of the table

I bought this one about 6 years ago and am satisfied with it. It is an air lift only. It’s much nicer than my friend’s Habor Freight Tools lift table and over twice as expensive, but worth it to me.

A Greg Smith warehouse is just few miles from my house which saved me the shipping charge. That was a big plus.

http://www.gregsmithequipment.com/Atlas-Cycle-Lift