Guys,
I have been looking for a centre stand dolly for ages and cant find one under 200 bucks. I thought stuff this I'm gonna make one. Now this thing is as ugly as ya mother in law and is by no means an engineering masterpiece but it works and its cheap. I got a piece of quarter inch thick steel plate ( 400mm long ) at a local steel supplier for 5 dollars. The wheels are from Bunnings which for our US friends is pretty much Home Depot. They cost 38 dollars. The wheels have an extremely good adhesive on them and they stuck to the steel like sh&t to a blanket.

Now all I want to be able to do with this is to spin the bike on its own axis in my shed so I don't have to do 40 point turns when I want to get out. I dont need to wheel it around the shed or anything like that, although it will do that to. The wheels don't swivel but that doesn't matter to me. I have used it on my three bikes a ZZR600, Blackbird and the 1000F a short time ago and it worked a treat. Getting it on the stand is a one man job. I sit it under the bike and while its on the centre stand push the bike to one side and put the dolly under the centre stand. I repeat this on the other side until the bike is up on the stand. Then I grab it by the grab rail or Ventura rack and spin it around with no problem at all. To get it off is the reverse of getting it up on the stand.

I spose you could paint it if you wanted to but I won't bother. For 43 dollars it will do me. Cheers.

 

Hey my my mum in law is not quite that ugly Bordo ............no way

Quite the engineering feat there though all the same man
I'll say that and no more.

Could double as a self defense weapon cuz any poor basterd that gets a
belt of that thing won't live to tell the tale.

 

Thats ok mate. I wasnt planning on winning any design awards !!!!. Thing is it works and I dont part with $200 !!! Cheers.

 

Shoulda pinched/found/purchased a supermarket trolly, ripped off the top and used the base, with your plate. Swivel wheels too ! Bulletproof.
Now go and design a stand for a bike that has no centrestand, Geoff, and I'll be well impressed

 

Bordo


"A man paints with his brain and not with his hands." - Michelangelo

"Imagination is more important than knowledge". - Albert Einstein

"Make a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

"as ugly as ya mother in law" - Bordo

 

Both my ex mother in laws......eeeeek

 

My ex-mother in law was a 4'10" dwarf that made her husband's (and mylife) miserable.
She's still a miserable old biddy
Looks a bit like an axle stand, too, except her wheels are rusty and the bearings are stuffed.......