Made a 4 caster skateboard out of steel to do the same, mine just has the center stand sit on it, very helpful in a tiny shed. It was not a 5-minute job, took some fiddling and redesign to get it to work and not flex under the weight and a big notch around the front of the rear wheel. Well worth it in the end.
What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?
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piranha-bro2
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Great idea BlackJ. How do you pivot the bike up onto the skating frame? I have to do the multi-point turn and it bugs me!
Dellortoman
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You could install a turntable in your garage floor. 
helicopterjim
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Dellortoman said:You could install a turntable in your garage floor.
..... but what size?
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond
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I had a turn issue in a garage I used to have as it a downward ramp to go into - for a number of years I used a square tea tray - just popped her up on the centre stand and turned her round so I could ride out !
Jo
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Piranha Brother 2 said:
Yeah - would also be interested to know - or just have some bigger pictures!
phil37
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Exmoor beast
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LJ-2 said:Tried out the 3C rack from Wolfgang,now weather"s warmer.
Wife?s just said ? that?s the colour you want? and carried on reading
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It?s growing on me....
pf1
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Those racks are good Shaun, I used to have one on mine.
78jotadave
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I have a Marantz 6100 turntable in the garageDellortoman said:You could install a turntable in your garage floor.
Dellortoman
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I've never worked out why they put a hinge in those racks so the horizontal bit would fold up against the vertical bit.
BlackJota
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I'll try to explain how my "Skates" work. If you look back at the original photos you will see the front and rear skates are joined by a length of 25mm pipe.
This is the key piece to the puzzle. The rear skate lifts the bike exactly like any paddock stand would do, with the rear wheel off the ground. It fits exactly around under
the rear axle nuts to support the bike. You can manoeuvre the bike quite well only using this skate alone and the front wheel as a pivot. But that was not good enough for
my needs. I wanted the front wheel off the ground also. Much easier to move and work on the bikes anywhere in the shed, whilst also raised off the floor about 100 mm.
So the front skate with the pipe attached, also lifts the bike from the axle nut and inside the "t" bar on the right hand side. The brackets are from a old paddock stand, adjustable in and out. I just turn the front wheel to the right a bit and put the skate in place under the axle and lift the front wheel up with the pipe lever being pushed down. Then I pivot the pipe lever and front wheel straight now on the castors, where it simply slides into a bracket on the rear skate, with a pin to secure the front to the rear. Keeps everything together, very stable. Steps in reverse to drop the bike onto the center stand.
Another advantage of these is that the bikes stack very close to each other side by side, in opposite directions, saving even more floor space.
Make sure you buy good quality castors, makes the bike glide much easier. These are solid plastic 100 kg rating each wheel. The small castor on the rear skate leg is 50 kg rating.
As with any castor wheel it is vital that it's axle is as close to vertical as possible to spin around on its bearings properly, but we all know that, unlike every shopping trolley in the world.
You'll notice the rear skate has the lever arm cut off short. "See original photo post of both bikes" That was to gain some extra turning space. It has a telescopic piece that is removable and sits in the bit of square tubing facing up for easy storage.
Hope the extra photos help.
Just tried to post all the photos, have to do 2 posts on this sorry.
This is the key piece to the puzzle. The rear skate lifts the bike exactly like any paddock stand would do, with the rear wheel off the ground. It fits exactly around under
the rear axle nuts to support the bike. You can manoeuvre the bike quite well only using this skate alone and the front wheel as a pivot. But that was not good enough for
my needs. I wanted the front wheel off the ground also. Much easier to move and work on the bikes anywhere in the shed, whilst also raised off the floor about 100 mm.
So the front skate with the pipe attached, also lifts the bike from the axle nut and inside the "t" bar on the right hand side. The brackets are from a old paddock stand, adjustable in and out. I just turn the front wheel to the right a bit and put the skate in place under the axle and lift the front wheel up with the pipe lever being pushed down. Then I pivot the pipe lever and front wheel straight now on the castors, where it simply slides into a bracket on the rear skate, with a pin to secure the front to the rear. Keeps everything together, very stable. Steps in reverse to drop the bike onto the center stand.
Another advantage of these is that the bikes stack very close to each other side by side, in opposite directions, saving even more floor space.
Make sure you buy good quality castors, makes the bike glide much easier. These are solid plastic 100 kg rating each wheel. The small castor on the rear skate leg is 50 kg rating.
As with any castor wheel it is vital that it's axle is as close to vertical as possible to spin around on its bearings properly, but we all know that, unlike every shopping trolley in the world.
You'll notice the rear skate has the lever arm cut off short. "See original photo post of both bikes" That was to gain some extra turning space. It has a telescopic piece that is removable and sits in the bit of square tubing facing up for easy storage.
Hope the extra photos help.
Just tried to post all the photos, have to do 2 posts on this sorry.
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BlackJota
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BlackJota
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CLEMTOG said:
Clem, I welded that Kawasaki Mach3 500 side stand there back in 1979. To be honest, that never occurred to me then and not until you mentioned it now. Fortunately the bike has never
been dropped in it's whole life. Have come very close many times though
. I think I might remove the bracket and stand completely, as I never really used it anyway.Thanks for spotting that possible expensive damage it could have caused.
Cheers
Barry