Harbor Freight Motorcycle Dolly Mod Idea

[BonS]

I've been thinking about modifying a Harbor Freight low profile dolly to work like the one in the video. It seems that it would provide a bit better control of the bike when pushing it around and make it smaller yet. I'm not sure if it's a worthwhile mod though. Any comments or thoughts by owners of the HF dolly?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=940373475975310

[henry 008]

I have one, bought it on sale or a 25% coupon or something. anyway a valk will fit, but jus barely. I added 7" to it this weekend and like it much better, as it works as intended now. I put 1/2 x 1-1/4 flat iron in the tubing that bolts the 2 halves together. then I put 3/16 x 1-1/4 flat on the underside to hold the kick stand  platform in the right place. I was gonna take pics of it, but haven't yet. I could send em to ya, if interested.

[John Schmidt]

Interesting how he gives it a shove and it glides on the wheels to a new position. I'll bet he stops doing that about the time he shoves it and a wheel/caster catches on a small pebble or nut, something on the floor kinda like a shopping cart does. Suddenly the dolly stops but the bike keeps going since it has more mass and it's up high. Over goes the bike. If I were to use something like that in my garage, I'd have a quick hook up with a strap from the left side down to a spot on the dolly. Lessens the chance of the bike going over should the dolly hit something on the floor.

[KY,Dave (AKA Misunderstood)]

Website shows different options for different bikes. Interesting space saving

http://easypmotorbike.com/

[dreamaker]

Those are awesome, but one problem!  If you notice the videos you watch they have nearly perfect floors in them, so you can use the super low units. But if you are like me, that don't have a perfect floor, they wouldn't work for me. I have the HF dolly, and use it for a couple years and it works great, for the price. Only thing I wish the HF Dolly had is a brake on it, just in case it would move while driving on it. Never had an issue yet, just in case.

[..]

Interesting how he gives it a shove and it glides on the wheels to a new position. I'll bet he stops doing that about the time he shoves it and a wheel/caster catches on a small pebble or nut, something on the floor kinda like a shopping cart does. Suddenly the dolly stops but the bike keeps going since it has more mass and it's up high. Over goes the bike. If I were to use something like that in my garage, I'd have a quick hook up with a strap from the left side down to a spot on the dolly. Lessens the chance of the bike going over should the dolly hit something on the floor.

John, I push my ST1300 around from the kickstand side. One hand pushing on handlebar end, the other on the passenger grab rails. Whilst it's leaning over it would take a lot of force to push it past vertical.

I have a less than perfect floor so it certainly doesn't roll like the video 

I've read that some have put larger castors on but for my inseam the bike is far enough off the ground.

[shortleg]

  I would love to have one to fit my F6B
           shortleg