[Closed] strange question about getting a sports motorbike (zzr 600) in to your house.

If the step is onto your land you could make a concrete ramp. Just make sure you put some grip line in it. Just make up some shuttering, a little rubble then a concrete mix.

gat a 2 foot piece of 6 inch ally channel off ebay;; used to keep a yamaha tenere and a trials bike in the kitchen of my terrace house

I guarantee you'll bump it up into the house twice and then decide it's too much faff. Save the headache and get a ground anchor, a whopping great chain & padlock, and a bike cover.

Getting it in won't be the issue, getting it out will be.

Also, if the door isn't ridiculously wide it's going to last 1-2 goes before it has a massive footrest mark on it, your mirror will be scuffed and you'll be working out ANY other plan than the one you have currently.

TFO +1

It may be alright pushing the bike in but it can be a bit harder getting them out if you haven't room to turn it, I always find pulling a big bike back a lot harder work. Get a v twin ( not a guzzi though) or a single at least it'll be slimmer and easier to get through the door 😉 (you have measured the door so you know you can get the bike through whilst at the side holding it or on it paddling it in?)

I used to keep a CR in my kitchen, was a bit of a faff but ever really got in the way, lot easier to move about than a sports bike.

I used to keep my RD400E in my bed.

You will manage with a lump of wood. After a few goes you will either get the hang of it, or leave it outside.

I used to be able to roll my Fireblade backwards down a cobbled hill without issues in order to get to the road. Did that for years. Of course the first time it was an issue. But I ended up doing a lot of it feet up.

The desire to ride will overcome a lot of hassel.

How will you manouvre it once inside? The turning circle isn't really designed for hallways

tbh am not the biggest bloke so lugging a 200+kg bike into my house will be a bit of a hassle.

unfortunately right outside my rented house is a communal drive.am not sure that i would be allowed to install a ground anchor.

there's no way i'm going to leave it outside,as it will take me ages to afford the bike (a cheap old one no way i could afford one of the newer models).

will find a way somehow 😉

EDIT if the worst comes to the worst am also thinking of a dual purpose trail bike as another option.as i live close to salisbury plain it would be great (also could guarantee that it would fit through door/get over step also.

my heart still want's the zzr 600 though 🙂

They now class the ZZR600 as a comfy touring bike - when it was released it was a cutting edge sports bike! I remember queuing up outside a bike shop in Sheffield to have a look at it on the day it was released.

As above, it is not worth it.

I moved mine into my old house without a garage a few times for long holidays but it is not worth it. Bars too wide, hard to get it out without doing a 3 point turn in the dining room. They are dirty, don't smell great etc.

To answer your question, I used to use scaffold boards 🙂

Friends of mine converted the dining room into a garage (and after they got fed up with people parking in front of the house and blocking the front path "driveway", bought a scrapper car with mot and tax and dumped it in front of the house to keep the way clear).

Ramp is really the only answer. A 12 inch step is really high, you haven't accidentally measured it with a pinkbike or penis ruler have you? Assuming it's right even if you get the wheel up (hard) it'll bottom out on the step.

unfortunately right outside my rented house is a communal drive.am not sure that i would be allowed to install a ground anchor.

You're thinking they'll throw a wobbly over a ground anchor, but turn a blind eye to a morbike in the kitchen? If they refuce the former, the latter is hardly likely to endeer you to them!

you haven't accidentally measured it with a pinkbike or penis ruler have you?

LOL

One of these would be portable and strong enough, but as above trying to manouvere a full bike into a house and turn it around to get it out again is going to be an experience that will put you off riding it.

Any garages locally you could rent? Some bikers share a garage to keep costs down.

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tbh am not the biggest bloke so lugging a 200+kg bike into my house will be a bit of a hassle.

Start the bike, put it in first gear, while standing next to it. Add a little revs and slip the clutch a little, up the ramp you go at a crawl!

Been putting my bikes on trailers and into vans this way for years.

Oh and master turning the bike around on the side stand, useful in tight spaces. You don't have to do it as flamboyantly as this chap, just take the weight off the wheels and spin it round.

I regulary wheel my KTM 990 up a ramp into the back of my transit van and wheel it back down again, backwards.

All by hand, all on my own.

If your slow and steady its not hard. So, Id say you will be fine doing that into your house.

The mirrors will fold in

I used to keep my KTM250 in the kitchen. It did have a patio door straight into the back garden though. And a crosser weighs eff all compared to a big(ish) sports bike

A few mates rented a big house in Aigburth in Liverpool. It had a really wide front door with a big wide staircase right in front of it. We used to have parties, get really drunk, then take run ups from the end of the garden and see how far we could get his XR250 up the stairs. We never managed the top. The neighbours loved us! 😀

I had a ZZR600 for a while (until it got nicked). They're a great bike!

Sidestand spin is fine, but you'll want to give some thought to avoiding destroying the floor... You're basically spinning 190kg or so on a bit of metal about an inch across...

Some bikes do it better than others btw! You wear the sidestand pivots on GSXRs frinstance and 749s always feel like they'll collapse. Have not done a zzr.

Good luck spinning a bike on the sidestand in the hallway!

Having seen how easy it is to mark doors, paintwork, plaster, floors etc with a pushbike, I can't imagine trying it with a 200kg motorbike. Sounds like that scene from the Inbetweeners!

Echo the above about the landlord not being keen on an indoor motorbike. I imagine Binners' mates had a bit of trouble with their deposit....

Struggling to afford it and nowhere to keep it? Seriously OP, wait until you're in a better place.

apj - Member

Having seen how easy it is to mark doors, paintwork, plaster, floors etc with a pushbike, I can't imagine trying it with a 200kg motorbike.

YMMV but I always found it... Not easier, exactly, kind of the opposite but the bulk and weight of a motorbike means you really only put it where you want it, and everything takes effort and thought, not like a pushbike where you more or less shove it into the house or try and push it onehanded while carrying a bag or lean it absently against things so it falls over, or whatever.

shifter you are right 😉

as much as i try and think of ways of saving for it,there's just too many things against me to buy a sports bike (it sucks though,have wanted a sports bike since being a nipper,always the cost comes into it unfortunately 🙁

Blimey - ignore them all. It will be fine.

For me - council lockup @ £5/week.

Ride it into the house and up the step, turn engine off before exhaust passes the threshold

Backpeddle once you're inside.

Its not that big an effort, space inside and where you leave is the bigger problem, plus when its wet and dirty

You can make a ramp out of bits of wood, then just screw it into the floor so you can take it out again when you don't need it

Just out of interest - what do you think your landlord will say if he turns up and finds a ZZR600 in the hall?

I'll second the lock up idea. The ZZR600 was a proper fatty, I'm sure the exhausts are two into one, so a silencer on each side. Cracking bike though.

am going to knock the idea on the head about the motorcycle at present.
just going to be too expensive to buy/run one.

tbh was just dreaming that i may be able to afford one (and run it).

am still going to save though.

have another plan though which may involve either a new bike (pedal this time) or new guitar (these i can aim for in my current situation 🙂

Dont knock you dream on the head. You never know when its too late for dreams.

Second hand motorcycles are cheap.

Trimix - Member

Dont knock you dream on the head. You never know when its too late for dreams.

Second hand motorcycles are cheap.

+1 bar one pig of a bike (bmw k1100lt) I've had fun o all the bikes i've owned, small 2 stroke trail, sports, tourers, retros they're all good maybe just aim down from a zzr