Motorcycle jack for storage.
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From: Manitoba, Canada
Or get a center stand and then it's always on the bike. If you put a piece of plywood underneath it your tires won't be off the ground but a lot of the weight will be off. You can actually turn the rear wheel for cleaning this way as well.
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From: Michigan 15 Minutes East Of Hell
All I can say is ... a good friend had his ( Fatboy ) on a stand and through a turn of events he found it on the floor ... needless to say it was an expensive repair and his Rottweiler was never quite the same
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From: Pine Flat Dam/South Bay Area, CA
It's the internet. 1 guy does it then everyone else thinks it's the thing to do. Probably a conspiracy started by J&S to sell more jacks.....
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Tourer
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From: Detroit
I ordered a J&S jack this afternoon, it sounds like what I'm looking for.
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From: Lake County, IL
You know it's heat that does that.
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Could someone please explain the need to "get the tires off the ground" when storing for the winter? When I lived up in CT and also in UT I stored bikes over a lot of winters and never once heard of anybody expressing a need to get the bike up off the ground. All I ever did was remove the battery, set it on wood block and in the spring I put it on a charger for an hour or so.
I also hear something about not having the room to leave the bike on the kick stand. If you have enough room in the summer then why not the winter. Does your garage shrink in the cold? I mean, the bike is just as wide standing up as it is leaning over so....
I also hear something about not having the room to leave the bike on the kick stand. If you have enough room in the summer then why not the winter. Does your garage shrink in the cold? I mean, the bike is just as wide standing up as it is leaning over so....
As to winter vs. summer storage, during the summer, my cage lives on the driveway. In the winter, if the bike is narrow, upright, and easy to maneuver, I can take the pushbar off the mower and squeeze all of it, including the bike, into the front of the garage and pull my car in. Garaged car in the winter means no scraping snow in the morning.
With the bike moving only front-back, and leaning on a stand, I can't get it all into the front of the garage, AND my car into the second bay.
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From: Omaha
To me it's a better setup than anything I've seen including the JS jack.
I did a review of it a couple of years ago.
Here's a link to my review;
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/gener...ly-review.html
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Gotta make room to move the snowblower from the shed into the garage.
