my original plan of buying a new bike and selling the old one never materialized. i'm gonna keep both lol. but my garage can really only comfortably fit 1 bike and my car.
after a lot of manoeuvring, i managed to get my second bike in front of my car, with literally less than a 1cm to spare. but im not gonna do this every time i park it.
View attachment 51928
the other side of the bike is about another foot or so of space, but i cant get my bike to utilize that area without pushing it from the side somehow. my bike has no center stand (i plan on installing one but i've seen those tiny mini-dollies that only fit the center stand part and keep hearing people dropping their bikes with them) so i want to get one of those full length dollies like this:
anyone have a specific one they can recommend? both my bikes are essentially mid-weight standards (400lb to 450'ish lb).
I was at the airport bike show a number of years back with my wife and saw a booth selling a roll-about with a Harley on it. My 108 pound wife inquired about how hard it would be to push and was told to try. She gave it a heave and it slid across the floor just about bowling over a couple of spectators.
She was "I'm sorry , I'm sorry," but it was the best demo the seller could have asked for.
For my 1500 Goldwing I made a lift that picked up the whole bike and I could move it anywhere I wanted in my one car garage and within a quarter of an inch from the wall. With lifts that kept a wheel on the ground sometimes nudging the bars would cause the bike to squirm and then the rear boxes would rub against the block wall.
It worked but didn't roll that well because of the cheap wheels I got from a friend who in turn got them from a Princess Auto car dolly. The wheels were cast iron and not even concentric. You get what you pay for.
Still it let me, in about two minutes, have the bike parallel and tight to the end wall of the garage with enough room for the mini van.
