Safety moment of the day

Just before they turned the camera on the guy said "Hold my beer and watch THIS!"

I can't say I never load a bike in a pick-up truck, but I would NEVER try to ride it up a ramp. Even when walking one up those are scary moments.
 
Oh, The Humanity! I've found that there's always a high curb or some other abrupt elevation change somewhere that will give you at least some of the lift that you need so the ramp is not as steep as it otherwise would be.
 
Yeah, always try to position the truck in a spot lower than where the bike is to minimize ramp angle.
 
Here in SoFla there are no hills, rarely even sloped driveways. I use a combination of 6' ramps bolted together to give a ramp 16" wide and a pair of the plastic car ramps. Steel ramps go from the tailgate down to the car ramps. This gives a slope low enough that the sidestand spring doesn't catch, and a wide enough ramp to put any bike in my truck with confidence (not riding, pushing). A milk crate next to the ramp eases the step up into the bed.

Took a buddy's Triton down to Wes' shop yesterday using this method - worked like a champ. Also took his '74 up to Barber along with my Ranger back in October, my Speed Triple and 73 up to North Carolina, the Ranger and 73 up to the Catskills for the '11 rally and to Daytona last year.

I also use the roll-in stands from Harbor freight - not the tubing ones but the big, heavy angle iron ones.
 
BillT said:
Here in SoFla there are no hills, rarely even sloped driveways. I use a combination of 6' ramps bolted together to give a ramp 16" wide and a pair of the plastic car ramps. Steel ramps go from the tailgate down to the car ramps. This gives a slope low enough that the sidestand spring doesn't catch, and a wide enough ramp to put any bike in my truck with confidence (not riding, pushing). A milk crate next to the ramp eases the step up into the bed.

Took a buddy's Triton down to Wes' shop yesterday using this method - worked like a champ. Also took his '74 up to Barber along with my Ranger back in October, my Speed Triple and 73 up to North Carolina, the Ranger and 73 up to the Catskills for the '11 rally and to Daytona last year.

I also use the roll-in stands from Harbor freight - not the tubing ones but the big, heavy angle iron ones.
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Even the gutter at the end of the driveway will make a difference.
 
I loaded mine in the back of a pickup with the assistance of three friends. We picked it up and gently set it in the bed of the truck...
 
swooshdave said:
BillT said:
Here in SoFla there are no hills, rarely even sloped driveways. I use a combination of 6' ramps bolted together to give a ramp 16" wide and a pair of the plastic car ramps. Steel ramps go from the tailgate down to the car ramps. This gives a slope low enough that the sidestand spring doesn't catch, and a wide enough ramp to put any bike in my truck with confidence (not riding, pushing). A milk crate next to the ramp eases the step up into the bed.

Took a buddy's Triton down to Wes' shop yesterday using this method - worked like a champ. Also took his '74 up to Barber along with my Ranger back in October, my Speed Triple and 73 up to North Carolina, the Ranger and 73 up to the Catskills for the '11 rally and to Daytona last year.

I also use the roll-in stands from Harbor freight - not the tubing ones but the big, heavy angle iron ones.
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Even the gutter at the end of the driveway will make a difference.
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In most cases, yes, but not in South Florida...
The highest point in my county, aside from the dump, is 20' above sea level. I don't have a gutter at the end of my drive, the crown of the road is 6" below the slab in my garage. If you look at a map of Florida, there's no natural elevation above 30' or so from the top of lake Okeechobee south. In fact the lake has an average depth of about 12'. Once you get up near Sebring, you get rolling hills and elevations up near 60-70' above sea level.
 
I put Ms Peel on her top from like 5 ft high shooting up a ramp into an over sized rental truck when Peel had broke axle 800 miles from home. Nothing to it I thought as I ride foot wide narrows and crests all the time, but when I let off power/speed at truck edge the axle shifted and applied the brake, so sat there an instant like Wiley Coyote before the fall knowing there was nothing to do as no where to put a foot down, then swosh, impact and splintering.

Tha MX biker landing in van has always bothered me if he really died decapitated or was photoshopped.
 
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