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Sportsterpaul said:
Always riding when air quality permits, my lungs care not happy, sigh…..keep it safe out there.
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Have you considered portable O2 tanks Paul? I strap one of my tanks on the rear saddle when I ride. That said, I also get my boy to follow me on any rides JIC I do something stupid and need help to pick the bike back up. I'm also really mindful in elevations and try to stay low.

I'll be 80 on the 7th. Not exactly in the best of health but I'm not changing how I live, regardless of what the doc's say.
 
SteveAikens said:
Have you considered portable O2 tanks Paul? I strap one of my tanks on the rear saddle when I ride. That said, I also get my boy to follow me on any rides JIC I do something stupid and need help to pick the bike back up. I'm also really mindful in elevations and try to stay low.

I'll be 80 on the 7th. Not exactly in the best of health but I'm not changing how I live, regardless of what the doc's say.
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Congrats on the 80. JIC I don't make it
I bought my Tiger 800 XC because the spec sheet said that it weighed 470+/- lbs. I was amazed that I could not pick it up from a tip-over. So, I weighed it to find out that it is 570+/- lbs. Measured the initial pick-up weight. You know that 'moment' that you have got it all and you hope that you can get it up far enough to where it gets lighter? 211.bs on the scale says that it aint never gonna happen for me no more. Yes, I now cruise parking lots making sure that a spot really does look ok before landing it.
I been wondering how long a tube/lever I would need and how to apply it to the bike and how to pack it on the bike so that self-rescue from a tip-over would be a non-issue? One of those ratchet strap jacks might be reverse engineered for a cheap home-built experiment?
fran
 
Where there's a will, there's a way. Not sure how you could make a ratchet strap work unless you had something to attach it to..

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Steve, Good Lord willing I might see 80 next year, sigh. I have a couple of the larger oxygen tanks but they don’t seem practical on the back of the bike. I pressed the V.A. For help with one of those smaller compact “oxygenerators” but motorcycles aren’t considered a necessity by some. I did cover about 300 miles two days ago , going no where special, and was very tired by supper time. I’ll just keep doing it one day at a time. Each day is a gift.
 
ibafran said:
I been wondering how long a tube/lever I would need and how to apply it to the bike and how to pack it on the bike so that self-rescue from a tip-over would be a non-issue? One of those ratchet strap jacks might be reverse engineered for a cheap home-built experiment?
fran
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It all depends on your welding/scrounging skills fran.
https://www.motobikejack.com/. $228 + S&H

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Slightly different variation of the design on this EU one.
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Sportsterpaul said:
Steve, Good Lord willing I might see 80 next year, sigh. I have a couple of the larger oxygen tanks but they don’t seem practical on the back of the bike. I pressed the V.A. For help with one of those smaller compact “oxygenerators” but motorcycles aren’t considered a necessity by some. I did cover about 300 miles two days ago , going no where special, and was very tired by supper time. I’ll just keep doing it one day at a time. Each day is a gift.
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You should have a private message.
 
Thanx, EricV.
That's a good example of what I have been looking at. Another model has a bi-pod foot hinting that it might be less likely to 'roll-away' during a rescue/righting. One would think that it would be obvious that the bike should be in gear and/or the front brake activated before the 'pick-up'? Given the equipment, I can weld. And the contents of my garage/shop/basement/shed/attic prove that nearly nothing is safe from my scrounging. (So far as I know, nobody has ever looked at my scrounge pile(s) and then looked back at my spouse and then looked back at the pile and so forth? Nobody has hinted that my life-long scrounging technique transferred to my dating technique.)(No, I have never scrounged an animal but I have inherited a cupple.)

This weekend I am going to test/demo one on my bike at a club campout. It belongs to an IBR finisher who keeps it on her 900 Tiger. Hopefully it will be riotously amusing and eventually successful for all spectators and not require me to have to order new parts for my bike nor visit the ER just to get the laugh.

what could possibly go wrong,
fran
 
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