Yeah, walking beside the bike while using the throttle to load it is generally a bad idea.
Bike load fails
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Yeah, walking beside the bike while using the throttle to load it is generally a bad idea.
Xhumeka
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Yeah, walking beside the bike while using the throttle to load it is generally a bad idea.
I'm really lucky you weren't wearing your helmetcam that time, otherwise I'd have also been in that video
I still blame it on my sticky clutch and the wet steel ramp!
rmemedic
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Yeah, walking beside the bike while using the throttle to load it is generally a bad idea.
Lol that is the method I usually use.
Sucks when the bike is half way up and stalls. Can't kick start it, can't put it in neutral and it still drags with the clutch pulled all the way in making it harder to just push lol.
I'm 5'7" with a fullsize truck, so I have to put my bike stand next to the ramp, but I'm too short to get a run at it and hop up fast enough, so it's a slow push up for me... Usually by myself after a day of riding a MX track. Thinking of getting one of those hitch carriers.
Yeah, walking beside the bike while using the throttle to load it is generally a bad idea.
Why? That's what I do. I have clutch control, throttle control, front brake control, and kill switch control. If it stalls, being engaged in gear allows me to ease it back down the ramp with the clutch. I have a shallow load angle mind you, with an 8 ft plank loading into a minivan.
Xhumeka
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He was just making fun of me I'm sure... I was loading my bike onto my tonneau cover which is about 5.5 feet off the ground on my lifted truck. It was a very cold, wet day - I was tired, my clutch was sticky, and the ramps were very slick... let's just say instead of getting my bike onto my truck, I ended up on the ground flat on my back with one leg tangled up in my ramps (they are ladder-style ramps).
Thankfully this time WudzRydr wasn't standing back filming and laughing at me - he caught the bike from falling ontop of me.
Naw, they just needed a longer run at it.
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Bigevildoer
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Dropped my track bike first time loading it onto my pick up truck (Ranger).
Apparently the person who owned it before me used an exceptionally short bolt for both clip-ons.. The bolt held on to the last thread only.... started pushing the bike up the ramp, left clip on spun around (after the bolt pulled free of the thread - and took the thread with it) and of course, the bike dumped.
Long story short -- I'm incredibly lucky it didn't happen on the track at full lean...
Replaced both clip on bolts with appropriate length bolts and lock nuts.
Apparently the person who owned it before me used an exceptionally short bolt for both clip-ons.. The bolt held on to the last thread only.... started pushing the bike up the ramp, left clip on spun around (after the bolt pulled free of the thread - and took the thread with it) and of course, the bike dumped.
Long story short -- I'm incredibly lucky it didn't happen on the track at full lean...
Replaced both clip on bolts with appropriate length bolts and lock nuts.
N3WMAN
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Some people ride bikes that aren't street legal(Track, Dirt).
Sabex
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not everyone has a street bikei cant ride my bike to the track
Thought I had already responded to that (guess my browser bugged out.)
Yeah, that's something I wasn't thinking of at the time.
If I had a trackbike I would get something like http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00GCtadpzqIUbr/Motorbike-Trailer-WT-MT2-.jpg or a fully enclosed trailer, just to make transportation easier. And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't dirt bikes designed to get dropped and just be picked right back up?
On a side note: Loaded my bike into a truck while the ground was covered in snow/slush. It really wasn't that hard and I have no idea how anyone could drop a bike while loading it. If they have that much trouble just loading a bike I'd hate to see them riding one.
