twowheeler
two wheels are best
Well it's the only one I know and it was just dead easy, but if it was slick clay I guess you 'd just push the bike downhill with any method ?
Larry or Lefty ?
Lots of Love ?
Lube or Lick ?
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Well it's the only one I know and it was just dead easy, but if it was slick clay I guess you 'd just push the bike downhill with any method ?
Larry or Lefty ?
Lots of Love ?
Lube or Lick ?
nev
Super Térrarist
On the subject of bikes falling over in less than ideal conditions, in a reader story in Adventure Rider Magazine a few issues ago, there was a story from a bloke who was riding alone and who's 800GS had fallen over on a slightly downhill slope, and (after wrenching his back trying to turn it around using what must have been a not too back friendly methond) after about 24 hrs of waiting/trying eventually had to use his EPIRB to get police assistance to come and pick the bike up.
Hytram
<-- now went that way
I bang on to anyone who will listen about how light the Super Ten is to lift up for its 270KG in weight.... and then
the Monday before Melb Cup I decided to have a few hour riding around Mt Disappointment and with all the rain we had there were a few mud holes around, I was riding around the outside of one a little too gingerly and stalled, put the foot down on the wrong side and let the bike down slowly in the mud..
vapour lock!!
the side fairing and engine bar where suctioned into the mud, couldn't even lift the bike a millimeter, took me an hour to move the bike around with a small log as leverage to break the suction and then lift the bike up, had it upright a whole 5 minutes then 3 dirtbikers came past and asked if I needed a hand!!
I was in mobile range and had my spot on me, I think 3 hours would have been my limit before calling for help
I have been meaning to make up a Z pulley system and carry it with me, with light weight pulleys and rope it should fit under the seat, make light work of a heavy job
the Monday before Melb Cup I decided to have a few hour riding around Mt Disappointment and with all the rain we had there were a few mud holes around, I was riding around the outside of one a little too gingerly and stalled, put the foot down on the wrong side and let the bike down slowly in the mud..
vapour lock!!
the side fairing and engine bar where suctioned into the mud, couldn't even lift the bike a millimeter, took me an hour to move the bike around with a small log as leverage to break the suction and then lift the bike up, had it upright a whole 5 minutes then 3 dirtbikers came past and asked if I needed a hand!!
I was in mobile range and had my spot on me, I think 3 hours would have been my limit before calling for help
I have been meaning to make up a Z pulley system and carry it with me, with light weight pulleys and rope it should fit under the seat, make light work of a heavy job
When's your book out with all those recovery yarns? You've had some pearlers over the years...
twowheeler
two wheels are best
Straight out of a yachting chandlery, but unless you've got a skyhook what do you use as the anchor ?
Williamson
Part of the furniture
John_Johnny
Long Timer
A big stick should do the job if you're somewhere with trees. Find a big branch, or break one off, and find a chuck. Lever up the big stick, push in the chuck, lever a bit more, move chuck etc.
Hytram
<-- now went that way
I've shut up about a lot more!
you dont carry skyhooks around with you? I always carry to 2
1 to climb on my high horse and the other to reach my ivory tower
but seriously, at least in the Victorian bush you are around trees and your not looking for a direct attachment point upwards, more of a sideways pull
if I had to tools I would have!! usually on muti-day trips I carry a small axe and rope saw
basically what I did, once I had the bike up about 15 degrees it picked up quite easily
here are the pics of the event
got home to find this....
:wow::wow:
Williamson
Part of the furniture
How undignified!
