Wow. You almost had your Goldwing fall off of this stand in the video?. Were yoy tugging on something or shaking the bike somehow? The tiedowns and plywood is a good idea in certain situations an acquaintance of mine, A natural mechanic, had his BMW air cooled twin, the RS model on his home made lift table.. I don’t know how it happened but his machine ended up going off the side, and it landed wheels up right on the windshield/gas tank/faring.. i’m always nervous putting motorcycles up on lifts or stands..

@@Jodyrides I was tightening something and bike started to go over😬I somehow managed to save it from going over,parts are hard to find for these vintage Goldwings. I own two a 75’ and a 78’, thankfully not the heavier breed!

@@ktlcustoms3847 A buddy of mine had the very first year 1975 Goldwing when nobody knew what it was supposed to be. They were just stripped down no bags, no trunk, no fairing. What was it, nobody knew. I had just bought a brand new Honda CB 750 F, single cam two valve per cylinder. It was Honda’s hot rod supposedly then.. my friend on his 1975 goldwing i bought me on my Honda CB 750 F ran them off several times side-by-side on the interstate. That Goldwing pulled away from me every time at a walking pace. We tried from 5 miles an hour side-by-side starts, we tried side-by-side from 40 mile an hour roll-on‘s, every time, that Goldwing pulled away. They were not slow , Even though they were incredibly quiet and smooth at the same time. I was road racing motorcycles at that time. I was at a race that they had a five hour endurance race on the Saturday after the heat races for the sprint racers. There was a gold wing in that race. They had put better shocks, tires, flat bars on it, and number plates. They left the stock exhaust on. There were about 40 bikes entered in that race of all sizes at Summit pointe Road race track in West Virginia. where Goldwing won the race overall by two labs. There were Ducati‘s, 900 Kawasaki‘s, 750 Honda‘s, RDs, Kawasaki two stroke triples in that race and the gold wing just breezed away.

@@Jodyrides I own a 75’ a 78’ and a 80’ Ive built all of them. My 78’ will smoke anything of that era.

I also have one of those lifts with the two beams, and they do take up a lot of room, they’re in the way on whichever side you push them in for them and jack it up from. They have their uses, but this is more useful most of the time. The capacity is 1100 pounds. I paid 4999 for it, With free shipping on eBay a couple years ago. Now they are in the 60s and worth every penny

@@Jodyrides i was just on ebay looking lol

The saddles are the important part. If you have a low hanging oil pan, or maybe an exhaust system in the way. You can raise the saddles. Those things are I’m guessing, 3/4 of an inch solid steel.. you can always take the saddles off if you think you need the one that’s not as wide and you just need a flat surface for some reason. But if you put a motorcycle on the flat surface. That is a slippery surface. if you have the Saddles under the frame, it’s not as likely to slip or move easily. The saddles are coated with some type of rubberized plastic like the stuff they cote bedliners with..

I wouldn’t worry too much about 20 bucks more. I used to be a steel fabricator. Making things like steel scaffolding for shipbuilding, steel framework for pole buildings, stairways. I could not make one of those scissor lifts for what you can buy one for

@@Jodyrides Thats what I was thinking go with the wider and make some saddles. I got a welding/fab cert. I make a ton of crap.

I do not know who makes the Jack. But, I worked in a steel fabricating shop for years literally making screw jacks for scaffolding used in liquid natural gas tankers. I’ve seen quite a few prototypes, welded them, cut the steel up, ground and painted it for delivery to the customer. this Jack that I have anyway, is very well-made. It is heavy. I have a scale in one of my videos that only goes up to 25 pounds. This Jack went a little past 25 pounds and probably weighs about 28 pounds or so.. in several of my videos you can see my almost 900 pound Venture motorcycle being held up by this Jack. It is rated at 1100 pounds.. they usually have a built-in safety factor of at least 25% which at times can be pushed up to 100% in testing. I have seen tests with our jacks that exceeded the suggested maximum weight by 100%.. I also used this jack to remove the front forks from my previous motorcycle, a Honda GL 1800 Goldwing six-cylinder. That motorcycle weighs over 900 pounds, and again, I had the Jack situated to lift the front end which means, I was lifting right under the engine where about 80% of the weight is.. I actually discovered these jacks I watching a Goldwing suspension upgrade video with a very good studio type presentation by one of the suspension companies that specializes in upgrading Goldwing suspensions. I noticed that they use one of these jacks painted black in their video. So I searched the Internet and I discovered them for sale on eBay. When I bought mine it was $49.99 with free shipping, I believe that was in 2019. I think they are a little over $60 now and worth every penny. I would’ve paid $200 for this Jack now that I’ve been using it. I have one of those rolling jacks with the two flat contact areas that I’ve had for about 25 years. I’ve used it a total of two times. I think I would trade it for a six pack, it wouldn’t even have to be cold. I would like to get it out of my garage. Because when you use one of those motorcycle lift jacks with the handle in the four wheels, it’s in the way on whichever side you push it under the bike from. It’s not stable, you have to use straps to stabilize the bike.. and you are lucky if you can find a spot on your motorcycle to contact the frame with those older design motorcycle jacks. With this Jack in my video, it’s pretty solid if you have it on a level floor. I believe in my one video I shake the bike and Jack is actually rocking on the uneven floor.. I am about to use my Jack again now that it’s winter here in Pennsylvania on my royal star venture, I’m going to remove the shock to change the oil in the shock again, and replace the rubber bushing at the top of the shock because it was warm when I had the shock off a couple thousand miles ago.. to get the rear wheel off of my venture, I have to jack the motorcycle up so that the frame for the saddlebags is at least as high as the tire so that I can roll the tire out from under the bike, under the back fender, under the saddle bag mount.. if you check a couple of my videos using the Jack to do the swingarm bearing lube job and rear wheel maintenance living the bearings and the Cush drive bushings, and lubing the driveshaft splines at the universal joint yolk, you can see how high I had to jack the machine up so that I could roll the wheel out. Otherwise, I would’ve had to remove all of the saddle bag and trunk brackets to get the wheel out of there to give me a room to work on the swingarm and the driveshaft and the shock linkage, etc.. if you order one of these shocks, you can find it on eBay it is listed under motorcycle lift jack or motorcycle scissor lift jack. There’s usually a whole bunch of them for sale. And I would suggest you make sure you get one with the adjustable perch that slides along the channel to the desired width, and you can unscrew those purchase to get to the desired height in case you have to clear something like maybe the oil pan to contact the frame with those rubber coated saddles.. anyway, I have a tendency to over explain things, good luck, you won’t be sorry if you buy one of these jacks. If your motorcycle does not have a center stand, this is a must have item. In fact, now that it’s almost December/2022. I’m going to Jack my Venture up to get the back wheel slightly off the ground and leave it that way until the end of February when the weather starts to get better..

@@Jodyrides damn. Didn't need all that. Where did u buy from, ebay or amzn.

There is a company called traxxion dynamic that have a recording studio for producing how to videos, and they specialize in suspensions for Gold wings. They are very well done videos, they almost look like Hollywood productions. I learned a lot from them when I had my GL 1800 Goldwing, and one of the things I learned from them is, the existence of these scissor jacks. They use them in their videos when they have the front forks off of gold wings to upgrade the springs and bushings.. I liked what I saw and I searched and found them on eBay. At the time they were $49.99 free shipping. I used my jack to jack up my Goldwing and remove the front forks to upgrade the springs, bushings, seals, wipers, fork oil change. I had no problems then or since holding up a motorcycle with these scissor jacks.. I suppose I really should redo my demonstration video because I do know what you refer to when you say the Jack looks like it’s rocking. It is, that’s because my floor is not level, not because the Jack has play…if you check out some of my other maintenance videos when I changed tires or had the swingarm and the shock absorber off my 850 lb venture,I was using this jack. No catastrophes yet.. I have quite a few styles of jacks for motorcycles, including that one that is about 30 inches wide and 40 inches long on casters, and it has two rails to pick up the bike with, I do not trust that contraption. I found that I had to jack the bike up and strap it down from four directions to keep it from teetering on that lift that resembles a pallet jack if you know which one I mean. I’ve tried lots of different methods including using two floor jacks with a 4 x 4 under the machine and jacking each side up 1 inch at a time. I don’t like putting my bigger bikes on my handy lift pneumatic motorcycle lift inside my garage. I have to remove the windshield if I want to take the table up all the way , Because the windshield hits the ceiling or my garage door if I have the door up. And since my Venture does not have a center stand, that is a two man or three man job safely putting my Venture up on my handy lift table. One person on each side holding the machine steady , while using my scissor lift to lift the motorcycle by the frame using the two saddles on the scissor lift..I also custom fitted a 2 x 4 with slots in it for the tabs that I assume were to be for the center stand, which they never installed the center stand.. so using the lift as I demonstrate in my video has not been a problem, it’s actually been a blessing that it is so easy and stable in spite of my unlevel floor.. Thanks for your concern. Good eye catching that my floor is not level.. And thanks for watching my video

@@Jodyrides Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation.

Would you know the difference?