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To put that in perspective, at 65mph you need the length of one Canadian football field to stop. At 110mph, it's about 2-1/2 football fields. That is ... insane.

In our neck of the woods, most of it is hardwood. We have very little softwood on our property. The logs stacked here is just a fraction of the wood I have to cut. There is no shortage of hardwood. Sometimes I pull a few wagon loads of wood to an elderly neighbour who burns firewood. Our...

LOL. I could probably build a fun trials course on my property with all the terrain afforded by Canadian Shield grant and the newly downed trees providing a nearly unlimited source of free lumber. Neighbours probably wouldn't be thrilled though.

Halfway between Orillia and Gravenhurst. Let me know when you plan to show up. If you want to help me clear fallen trees and branches, bonus.

I'm worried the drop will be too steep and that will cause its own traction problems - not so much for the bike, but for me. Once it starts going down, I'll need to be able to control it and that might be challenging as I try to walk it down a steep grade. I'm happy to build something that...

Don't know who Hammond is... I'm guessing the host? I don't watch Top Gun Gear, so wouldn't know how old that puts that episode at.

It's only a 20' container. ;) There are cloaking materials that have been demonstrated that are the size of the LED panels that their "cloak" was constructed of. So they could have worked with one of those companies working on that technology. But that wouldn't have been as funny.

It would have been cool if they did the corrections to sort out the perspective issues - either in software or with an additional optical element which applied the required correction. Or better yet, if they had used some of the actual cloaking materials and technologies that are out there. It...

That's gotta cause some problems at intersections.

I've done this. I was loading my trailer with our sleds. Instead of turning the trailer around with my car, I unhitched the trailer, turned my car around and then rotated the trailer into position, but neglected to rehitch. Rode the first sled onto the trailer and yup - drove the trailer...

I've seriously considered painting it to blend in with the background or make it somehow otherwise more attractive. As with just about everything else, a Google search reveals that there are no original ideas left. The page I took that image from has lots of ideas to prettify a container...

I dropped my Multi the first day I had it. It was a 7-h drive from QC to bring the bike home. Once I got it there, I just wanted to be done and get the trailer back to U-haul so I rushed getting it of. I should have stopped and asked for help next door when I started backing it up and...

I sold my last bike to a guy in a parking lot. He brought a pickup truck but forgot a ramp. We found a hill on one side of the parking lot and he backed the truck up to the hill and we just rolled her in. You're right about the board orientation. Earlier I speculate that the orientation may...

Getting the bike in isn't nearly as challenging as getting it out, so I considered maybe turning the bike around in the container and then riding it out. But I measured out dimensions and the interior of the container is only 5" wider than the bike. I don't have the energy to make a 50-point...

I did. It was a nice video. I'm not sure I see the purpose of your adding the wings to the sides of the ramp though. It makes it wider, but your bike still isn't getting past the rails of the original ramp. Is it just to give someone more room to walk it up if they wanted? I tried riding my...

My wife isn't letting me put gravel there. As it is, it borders one of her gardens (you can't tell because nothing's in bloom). The spot looks like crap in the picture but there's a lot of debris there and the grass hasn't come back yet. I could put the container where our garage was ( it...

@Dirty Frank - What are "stick and fittings"?

So was finally able to snap a shot of the container. Mind all the wood debris - tons of trees and branches fallen. As mentioned - the container is not level with respect to the ground (I *still* have not checked for actual level). The left side sits about 2-1/2" closer to the ground. I'm not...

Thanks all for the replies. Usage: I expect I will usually leave the bike outside of the container during riding season. But if the solution I end up with works well enough, maybe I’d store it inside. The latter is not necessarily a requirement right now but a nice to have. Got to the...

this was the first winter I parked my motorcycle in a shipping container. I used a section of my dock boards as a ramp. It was fine getting the bike in the container, but backing it out was an adventure, because my “ramp” was not securely fastened to the container and would not have been very...