Well I have to get to see it first..... Tuesday morning I head out to work, knowing it will be delivered to where I work that day.....
I get half way to work and loose the brake pedal in the pick up.. Right to the floor at 40 miles an hour. Now I'm a tall man and even with the seat all the way back, when faced with a lift your leg up by a dog-gone 12" to reach the EM brake is a shocker. I get to work and its bitter cold. Shipper comes in and the shipping/receiving man gets in on the dock and gets me to look the crate over for damage. I go out and just about have my ears fall off the 5 min I'm out there. Up on the material rack it sits and the pick-up is awaiting a two block trip down the street to a mech with a lift in a two bay , Mom and Pop shop. I don't care what it costs I am not working in this cold
NO More.
Had from 1974 to 1995 working on heavy eq. ( quite a lot of road work and bad weather conditions ) and have had enough when I left.
Any how this guy does well enough to take off from Christmas eve to the 2nd of the new year. And I didn't know I was getting this lift and , had started getting ready for some new tires , and just have to move things around with the door open for about a half hour to get the crate in and lift out. At 500 pounds shipping weight it must be a good one.
Good thing I can use the Co. van to get back and forth after hours. I will have it home so I can un-crate it for this week end, I want to use it as soon as I can with my bike on it. I could have and would have several years ago just repaired my truck at work. But being a new to us building with sub-standard insulation and the stats down to a chilly 63 ...... laying a a cold deck on a creeper is just not something I want to do. Did two brake lines two years ago in early Dec out in our driveway
Never again in the winter up here. My good friend Tony just did an electric fuel pump up in Toledo, on a truck outside pulling the gas tank out. God Bless him !!!!!! You could not get me to live in the north by the Great Lakes if you gave me a home free and clear. Great place to be in the summer nice roads and things to see and do. great people good food. But when winter sets in ,
I can understand why Carl Leo moved to Fla........
Any way back to the bike, I will get a bit off track here a second..... I had before the end of June found one rear speaker had the now famous rubber mount's ( 2 pcs ) go bad and as a repair what I had did in the 48 hours before I left on a trip was to use Black RTV . I cleaned the area up with M.E.K. and let the RTV cure for 24 or so hours before my trip before installing. So now, about a day or so before this Christmas as I was pulling the trunk off to clean and wax for the next season of riding found this repair to have held up. I was really surprised . Well rubber to rubber , It made sense at the time and was worth a try . That M.E.K. is a nasty powerful cleaner as prep for any gluing process as long as you keep it far away from any painted surface.. Just though I would throw this info out here.
Bike should be easy to roll up on the new lift with trunk and bags removed. I promise , Pics will soon be seen I really want to show this off as I have always wanted to have one. Since I will never really be able to retire I will have to work on bikes and machine work to support us in our GOLDEN YEARS
Some where warm and pleasant all year long , Plants growing all year long, pool pump running every day of the year. robotic lawn mower doing a better job than I ever could. As soon as the weather turns to spring I do want to still sink this unit into the wooden floor by cutting , boxing in and decking with a plate of 1/4 HR steel. and be level with the floor. Any thing to make it a joy to lift a bike off the deck.
For now a sheet of 0.187 sheet steel under it and it will be a working lift. I also purchased a small bike transport open trailer this season, but have not yet made any mod's to it to suite loading and transporting the larger touring bikes as yet. I can see some dings and dents from the pans of bikes at the end of this trailer from the get go. She need some mod's. newer/wiring, better hold downs and wheel chock and ramping. My goal is to be ready for anyone traveling thru the state we choose to live in be 100 % assured we can help in all ways in a breakdown / stranded situation.
Well in closing I have gone on enough but the forum needed some new reading material.....
I do have some Rear View mirror trim left in stock I will let go for 90.00 a set plus shipping, I need heat if I am going to have the doors open this week, Marie will be asking for cash from me If Im out in the shop,
burning the electric heat and lights.....
"Its not bad if you don't know something, but when you don't know you don't know; That's when your in trouble". Joe Place 1912-2008 (my grandfather)
,At 69,I am having less fun lying on the floor working on my VXII also 
.I am interested in what you got,and how much room it takes. 
