I had yet another cool idea, one that I could manufacture in next to no time. The problem was that living at my parents house again, I have to keep my motorbike out the back since the carport is always openly visible. This means that I have to wheel it down the side of the house, and there is no where to turn it around out the back other than turning it around on the lawn which digs big trenches. You can swivel it around on the side stand (which requires balancing and has the potential for dropping the bike) or you can use the centre stand which does some major scratch damge to my Dad’s lovely paved bricks.
Enter, the “Bike Swivel”!!!
This is made entirely using the base of an old floor standing lamp that was being thrown into the bin since it was rather broken. It would be fairly easy to make one even better without an old lamp though. This lamp base was heavy to keep it standing up straight, with many steel discs stacked together, with an external painted disc which has roughly a 25mm protrusion to ‘hide’ all the interior discs. All I did was chuck most of the discs out, keeping three, and the painted disc for them to sit in, and liberally sprayed WD-40 between them, although thinking about it a grease may have been better.
All you do is put the centre stand down onto the platform, and rotate the bike pushing down on the rear to elevate the front wheel! In the picture above you can see some spare discs alongside to see what they look like.
