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GEARBAG: Park N Move Motorcycle Dolly
Ken “Hawkeye” Glassman reviews the Park N Move Motorcycle Dolly
The Park n Move motorcycle dolly makes quick and easy work of placing your cruiser exactly where you want it with ease.
Almost every motorcycle owner I know suffers from the same problem . . . their garage is too small. And that means that they have to find small niches of space in their garage for their one motorcycle or more, if they’re lucky. And those small spaces can be hard to fit a bike into, especially if you’ve got a heavy cruiser or two to move around. It can take 20 minutes or more to wrestle that Ultra Glide back and forth, inches at a time, to get it just where it needs to be to stay out of the way of the cars, lawn mower, snow blower, or other items that have to share precious floor space in the garage.
But now you don’t have to sweat to wrestle that 900 lb bike around anymore. The Park n Move motorcycle dolly makes quick and easy work of placing your cruiser exactly where you want it with ease.
Since most cruisers don’t have center stands, the Park n Move takes the place of one. It is a heavy gauge steel platform, with four 360-degree rolling and locking castors that has a spring loaded lift mechanism in the middle of the platform. You simply position the lifting bar so that it spans the two cradle frame tubes under the engine, and with another foot lever steel bar that attaches to the lift mechanism, you can push down with your leg and hoist one wheel of the motorcycle off the ground, while the other just barely remains in contact with the ground. Depending upon where you choose to locate the unit, (fore or aft on the frame) will dictate which wheel will come off the ground. So if you merely want to clean your front wheel, just lift that one off the ground and it will spin freely as you polish it. And if you want to lube a rear chain, or adjust the belt tension, you can lift the rear wheel off the ground.
But the best part is that once your motorcycle is on the Park n Move, it’s now a breeze to gently roll your bike forward, backward, sideways, or maneuver it in any direction you need. Now you can fit your bike into the tightest places in your garage. And since the bike is sitting upright, it will take up less room than it would if it had to be leaned over on its sidestand. So you can even push it flush up to a wall on its left side. And when you wish to take the bike off the stand, you reattach the foot lever in the down position and push. The bike will lower, and rest on the sidestand.
The Park n Move comes with spacers to make sure the unit will work with different bikes to get the height correct, so you don’t have to worry if it will work with your specific motorcycle. And if your bike already has a centerstand, they make another model for bikes equipped with centerstand as well. It works on the same principal, and makes it a snap to roll those bikes into whatever position is desired.
I wish that the powder coated lift bar had a rubberized finish to protect the bikes frame better, and it would provide some additional grip so the frame couldn’t slide on the unit, but that’s easy enough to install on your own with some padding from the hardware store and duct tape if you like.
Keep in mind that the Park n Move works best on a very smooth garage floor, and it’s not intended for gravel, or a badly cracked or pitted garage floors.
The best way to appreciate how the Park n Move works is to visit their web site at www.legalspeeding.com and view the brief videos. And you can order one right from the site. The Park n Move Cruiser model sells for $299, and the Standard model for bikes equipped with center stands is $199.
But now you don’t have to sweat to wrestle that 900 lb bike around anymore. The Park n Move motorcycle dolly makes quick and easy work of placing your cruiser exactly where you want it with ease.
Since most cruisers don’t have center stands, the Park n Move takes the place of one. It is a heavy gauge steel platform, with four 360-degree rolling and locking castors that has a spring loaded lift mechanism in the middle of the platform. You simply position the lifting bar so that it spans the two cradle frame tubes under the engine, and with another foot lever steel bar that attaches to the lift mechanism, you can push down with your leg and hoist one wheel of the motorcycle off the ground, while the other just barely remains in contact with the ground. Depending upon where you choose to locate the unit, (fore or aft on the frame) will dictate which wheel will come off the ground. So if you merely want to clean your front wheel, just lift that one off the ground and it will spin freely as you polish it. And if you want to lube a rear chain, or adjust the belt tension, you can lift the rear wheel off the ground.
But the best part is that once your motorcycle is on the Park n Move, it’s now a breeze to gently roll your bike forward, backward, sideways, or maneuver it in any direction you need. Now you can fit your bike into the tightest places in your garage. And since the bike is sitting upright, it will take up less room than it would if it had to be leaned over on its sidestand. So you can even push it flush up to a wall on its left side. And when you wish to take the bike off the stand, you reattach the foot lever in the down position and push. The bike will lower, and rest on the sidestand.
The Park n Move comes with spacers to make sure the unit will work with different bikes to get the height correct, so you don’t have to worry if it will work with your specific motorcycle. And if your bike already has a centerstand, they make another model for bikes equipped with centerstand as well. It works on the same principal, and makes it a snap to roll those bikes into whatever position is desired.
I wish that the powder coated lift bar had a rubberized finish to protect the bikes frame better, and it would provide some additional grip so the frame couldn’t slide on the unit, but that’s easy enough to install on your own with some padding from the hardware store and duct tape if you like.
Keep in mind that the Park n Move works best on a very smooth garage floor, and it’s not intended for gravel, or a badly cracked or pitted garage floors.
The best way to appreciate how the Park n Move works is to visit their web site at www.legalspeeding.com and view the brief videos. And you can order one right from the site. The Park n Move Cruiser model sells for $299, and the Standard model for bikes equipped with center stands is $199.
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