Loading ramp for a full size truck?

Back in your day, tailgates weren't 6 feet in the air either.

The first time I tried loading a bike in my new 2500 was a disaster. I got caught in that no man's land with the front wheel over the tailgate and when I went to push, the toolbox I used for a step slid backward. Jumped off the box with a 500lb bike over my head, luckily I was able to let it roll backwards and managed not to drop it. That was the whole reason for the ramp.

 

Its 2 pieces of schedule 40 black pipe and the ramp, although the ramp was half the price when I bought it.

 

When I was a kid we backed the old mans truck in the ditch, perpendicular, rode off the road and them up the ramp

 

What could happen?????

 

That dude in the bottom GIF went full send.

 

I bought two identical ramps for just that purpose but seem to always default to using a dirt bike stand as my “second ramp”. Just easier for me.

But I do ALWAYS attach the ramp to my truck.

 

For me, that was fine for dirt bikes. But once I’m loading 600’s and 1000’s it is too heavy and risky.

 

https://www.discountramps.com/wide-atv-ramp/p/IBF-9444/

very similar to what i used

 

I still walk them up a single ramp in 1st gear feathering the clutch using a Home Depot bucket as my step. Guess I'm gonna pay for that one of these days. No strap, either.

 

Just make sure someone is videoing it when you load the Duc....just in case.

 

If that went up the ramp in first gear, I'm going to need to see video.

 

^^ that.

I know you can get a diesel two stroke to run backwards, but a desmo?

 

yes, have buddies that use this. i ride my dirt bike up a typical folding ramp, but id not do this with a street bike.. these folding ramps with steps to walk up are WAY more sturdy than having a cooler or bike stand roll out from under your feet. lol

https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/parts/stepramp-6-step-loading-ramp-p

 

beats riding up 1 ramp, but two separate ramps is sketchy.. if not 1 piece that folds, there's always the risk of separating when walking the bike up, and you are on the ground, feeling silly and sore

 

It was sketchy damn near every time I did it, the GSA load was the breaking point. Now the only bikes I'll load in the back of my now smaller pickup are dirt. Everything else gets the Kendon.

 

thats insane imo. i wouldnt do it with my race bike that was worth a couple grand, DEFINETLY not with that!!! you need a trailer sir.

 

Agree.

Of course it goes without sayin that you should use the cheapest HF trailer to haul your 100K bike.

When I raced back at Willow the number of dudes hauling 916/748 race bikes with Range rovers using a HF trailer was always greater than zero.

Or the guys with $40K+ Kustom Harely's going to Laughlin...HF trailer and (back then) $60K 2500 diesel.

Whatever bro. Hope you have good trailer insurance...

 

There's actually a little story with that...

I flew to DC to buy the bike, loaded it into a rental pickup truck (shippers were quoting me 2-3 months transit time) and drove it back to Montana to the airport where my truck was parked. I didn't want to unload the Desmo and re-load into my truck (was nervous), so I backed the trucks to each other tailgate to tailgate. The ride home was only an hour but I was terrified the entire time.