trailguy wrote:Try and park with your tail gate as low as possible. Set up the ramp and place a milk crate beside the ramp for a foot step. Stand on the left [shifter side] of the bike. Use the front brake to slowly back the bike down the ramp. This is how most riders un-load.
Well, I had supper to steady my nerves and decided to back the truck up right to the garage (didn't want my neighbours to watch me dump my bike the day I got it)
![Laughing Out Loud :lol:](./images/smilies/lol.gif)
I watched that video on DirtRider with the girl putting her bike onto a truck in three different ways, so I thought I'd do the reverse of the step method (yep, your milk crate method, trailguy). My garage isn't on a slope, unfortunately, just this once...
After a lot of jockeying and manually lifting the rear, I finally got the front and rear tires aligned with the ramp. I was standing on the right side of the bike and I had a little 3-step ladder just outside the tailgate. Slowly, the rear tire went past the tailgate, I stepped down a step and... woops!
I'm not sure what happened, but I might have turned the handlebar slightly to the right as I stepped
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Next thing I saw was that the bike was on its side, lying on the ramp, luckily, and kind of on my legs, too, I think, but I was still standing and I had the handlebar firmly in my grip. The rear wheel must have already been almost on the floor and the front wheel rolled a little bit on its sidewall and a cup or so of gasoline spilled onto the garage floor filling the garage with lots of vapours before I could get the bike set upright. My nerves were a little racked until I saw that the bike was unharmed and safely upright in the garage and off the truck, which unfortunately got it's first little scrape on the rubber top of the tailgate
Knowing that it can be done will make it easier next time. There's got to be a video of the same girl getting her bike
off the truck
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