BIKE TURN TABLE

[Raf-1200]

That's a good way to work with what you got Scarfey!

[SCARFEY]

I retired my old turning system and made the following.  I bolted some steel plate to the turntable shown below and glued some sheet  rubber under it to stop it from slipping.  The timber behind just lifts the bike sufficiently to enable little me to lift the bike up onto the centre stand. I remove it to rotate the bike.  Cost about $20. 

[Brian]

Al on the UK FJ/FJR forum built one of these, looks like a nice simple simple design.

Turntable MK2 has finally arrived! Lovely bit of bending/cutting/welding.

It works, but my measurements are a bit out, and will be revised. I was a country mile out of the balance point! Had to move the holes about 35cm to the rear!!

Anyway, I can now turn the bike with one finger! Very happy!







All I need now is a bit of lino for the floor, and also the top of the turntable. May have to spray it with hammerite.

I'll modify the design above, then post the engineering guys details. He charged me £135 delivered. On top of that is the bearing which is another £15 eBay special.

Al.

Following on from Turntable Mk1( http://www.fjfjrbiker.co.uk/index.php?topic=13766.0 ) , I thought I'd have the following put together:

*New design* MK3 ! Note: the thickness of the steel is 5mm. Another addition will be slots to allow the bearing to slide and adjust the balance point.



The guy who cut the steel sheet for me was:

James Yardley
 
Yardley Engineering
t. +44(0)1277 889516
e. y@rdley.org.uk
w. www.impulse4x4.co.uk

He's happy to take orders if anybody else what's to put one together. Just send him the above template.

LS Bearing available from eBay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAZY-SUSAN-BEARING-12-or-300mm-Swivel-Turntable-Bearing-Heavy-Duty-NEW-/320923935520?pt=UK_Crafts_Other_Crafts_EH&hash=item4ab88ea320

Granted the Mk1 has been good, once the Mk2 has been mated with the Lazy Susan bearing, it should allow me to turn the bike a lot easier and without having to remove the top box.

Report to follow once it arrives.

Al.

[Eveready1100]

I reckon an Xs11 would behave like a great post hole borer in that scenario. Got any fences you want erected, Jonesey?
What's that guy spinning around in the Utube vid? A CBR400?? Maybe 190 kgs at most?

[Jonesy]

Been practising that sidestand turn and its pretty easy, at least the one where you drag the arse end to the left is anyway, wouldnt try it on ashfelt bichamin  dammit, tar, on a hot day though, theres a sh#tload of weight concentrated on that one small point

[rasputin]

While that is a nice idea, I do find this method to be far cheaper and easy to do with any bike I have had.

[LUKEY]

I used to have an XS750 and parked it on the centre stand and when I wanted to turn it around used to push down on the back wheel and it would spin around on the stand,with care of course,cheers Nev

[Jonesy]

Love that backyard engineering stuff, I'll have one of those and a nymphette please

[AussiXS11G]

Scarfy mate - we all need one of those....

[SCARFEY]

Extra bearings make it too slippery to control.  As it is if you don't go in straight it can make the bike unstable. The "real one" will have a lead in to line it up a bit better.[maybe][

What it really need is a nymphette awaitin' in the shed when I get home to help me turn it around after a hard day in the salt mines 

[steptoe]

maybe another set of bearing thingo's under the rear wheel and you could pull it into place instead of walking backwards,, cool idea tho

[SCARFEY]

I made this [I must stress it's a Prototype as you can see by the shite welding] using scrap from around the workshop and some bearing thingos of an old piece of equipment. It works OK. My shed has a narrow entry making it difficult to turn a bike around.  Early days I've dropped my old XS a couple of time and the FJR more recently tryin to manouvre it.

Haven't tried the XS Yet as it's going through a cosmetic transformation.