I just want to see how you guys are jacking up your bikes with a standard style motorcycle/atv jack.  Thanks 

Two ratchet straps to the subframe where the tubes meet just before the taillight, two ratchet straps on the clipons, one on either side as close to the clamp as possible.

Not a standard motorcycle jack, but that's how I do it.   

killin me Geep!!!!



I'm trying to either figure out a hoist system, or get a jack for 60 bucks from harbor freight

Quote from: GeeP on February 27, 2008, 11:23:24 AM

Overkill???   

but its geep , if he could hed use a locomotive engine, to drive a generator for camping 

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on February 27, 2008, 12:22:46 PM
but its geep , if he could hed use a locomotive engine, to drive a generator for camping 

haha, nothing wrong with that. use what you got and make it work. hell, i dont even know what that thing is.

Personally, I would get something along the lines of a 2-ton folding engine crane like this one:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=35915



Mainly because I prefer to rig things from overhead whenever possible.  I'm always afraid stuff will fall of jacks, especially something as unstable as a motorcycle.  I've lifted my bike with the engine crane shown using the same straps and layout.  Only difference is I attach the straps directly around the triple clamp when single-point lifting. 

The engine crane can also be used for things like... 

1)  Removing and installing car engines.  (DUH)   
2)  Lifing heavy things out of pickup trucks  (new toys, of course)
3)  Lifing heavy things into out of the way places (like pallet racking in tight spots)
4)  Changing 30" chucks on an American Pacemaker  (30 lb lead mallet needed too)
5)  Any number of other uses that require lifting  (you know, like maw in law's 1950 Kelvinator fridge.  It's true, there really are concrete blocks in there!)

I've just never been a fan of motorcycle jacks.  You'll have to build some kind of a wood cradle to bolt to the motorcycle jack regardless.  Otherwise you'll be lifting the bike by the headers.

If I didn't go the engine crane route, I'd get something like a "Pit Bull" stand set.

http://www.pit-bull.com/



Just my $.02


Oh...  The yellow thing is my 1965 Clark CY-80B  I've been rebuilding it bit by bit.  Obviously, I haven't gotten to the lift cylinder yet...  Maybe next year.  Here's what it looked like this summer:



It's a handy bike lift.   

We rented a unit similar to this last year to move our shed. (More like a small barn) Guess I could have used it when I took off my front wheel. 

Quote from: bucks1605 on February 27, 2008, 02:31:18 PM
We rented a unit similar to this last year to move our shed.

What does it cost to rent such a monster?! What sort of license is required?

Quote from: beRto on February 27, 2008, 02:34:35 PM

Quote from: bucks1605 on February 27, 2008, 02:31:18 PM
We rented a unit similar to this last year to move our shed.

What does it cost to rent such a monster?! What sort of license is required?

Don't need any license to play with one in your own backyard.  I used to go up to GM Milford, MI proving grounds to play with these things, we made control valves for one model:



Can't imagine anything I'd want to do to a GS500 or any other bike I've had that couldn't be done with a centerstand and wood blocks.

I know, but with a vance pipe, I don't want to have to keep disconnecting and connecting the mid pipe and can just to get the centerstand on and off for certain things.  I was looking to be able to take off the centerstand, shed a few pounds, look a little cleaner, and be able to lift it with a jack rather than the centerstand.

Quote from: bombadillo on February 27, 2008, 09:20:14 PM
I know, but with a vance pipe, I don't want to have to keep disconnecting and connecting the mid pipe and can just to get the centerstand on and off for certain things.  I was looking to be able to take off the centerstand, shed a few pounds, look a little cleaner, and be able to lift it with a jack rather than the centerstand.

You have to disconnect the exhaust to put on the centerstand? That sucks, I have a yosh system and I'm able to put the centerstand on and take it off w/o removing the exhaust.

yeah, with a vance pipe, I can't get to the centerstand bolt w/o taking off at least the last section of exhaust which sucks.  I don't like bending on the flanges like that because they're gonna break eventually.