I worked on this while i was off work during the big snow storms that hit the Washington DC area last week. I wanted this bike out of my garage so I built this stand to hold the bike over my couch in my living room. I am going to decorate the rest of the wall with motorcycle related stuff. The stand is super strong and stable. It's made out of 2"x2" square pipe with 1/4" thick walls. It comes in 24' pieces and it was $80 i think. I added 3"x1/4" thick braces in the proper places. perfection. I had to use nearly all of my clamps. After i got it built i put the bike on it and left it in my garage for a couple days to see if "anything" happened. I installed it with my engine crane. There are brackets welded to the bike frame and bolted to the stand via welded tabs then the couch slides over it.
Fuck it! If you're going to have your head crushed and/or your neck broken, I can't think of a much better way to have it happen. Reminds me of when I had a big old Caddy bumper hanging above my couch for a while and was creeped out to sit beneath it... of course, I didn't build a stand for it either... I think I trusted those super strong plastic molly bolts and 5/8" drywall with a few coats of paint to hold a 70 pound bumper. Smart. That's me.
After a few beers I would probably sit on your couch. You could keep a few cycle helmets or hard hats on the end table - just for effect!
I like it but it wouldn't work for me. I'm envisioning walking into the room to see my 4 year old riding the motorcycle mounted on the wall.
I do have a vintage helmet collection i might build some hanging thing to display them next to the bike. It doesn't leak. I drained the oil.
Ha, cool idea. I can see the look on my wife's face followed by "what are you doing?" as I drag the engine hoist into the house!
Looks kick ass!! Giving me bad ideas. Wonder what else a stand like that could hold? Engines? OOOOOOHHHHH........... a HEMI above your couch! Now thats a "KILLER" idea.
maybe paint the wall to look like a shop in the background,with a bike on a lift kind of a 3-d effect..
you need a little mannequin to sit on it and display some vintage gear!!! very cool especially the hoist in the living room part!!
you should blow all of the build pics up to presentable sizes, frame them and hang the on the wall around it at scewed angles. id sit there!
Yes, I would. Even if I had to bring the beer. I built a fork to pick up round bales of hay (the big suckers) using that type of tubing. I never had a problem with strength, even when the hay was wet.
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