Hi all,
Forgive me if I've committed any sort of poor forum etiquette byt here but I hope you'll understand my choices and predicament after I explain myself.
This post isn't even actually about me, but rather my dad and his bike. He has a 2006 Victory Jackpot that he bought off someone a few years ago and he currently stores it in his workshop. But it tends to sit out in the middle of the shop floor because he doesn't like having to maneuver it up to/away from a wall or out-of-the-way space for riding even when it's potentially weeks between rides for him.
The problem is that I use his shop to do some work in and it's annoying having to move it out of the way when I want to use the space and then haul it back out when I'm done or attempting to work around it. I've been looking into buying him a storage dolly that has casters on it so it'll be easy to wheel around in any direction, but the problem I've found is that this model of motorcycle has a huge, fat/wide rear tire that is about 10 inches/250mm wide while a lot of the dollies I've looked into appear to have their channels or chocks only go about 7.5-8 inches wide. He has a dolly from Princess Auto that's one long channel with casters on either end and a small trough that sticks out on one side for the kickstand, but it's too narrow for this bike and the rear tire would sit up on the channel edges with no contact on the bottom of the wheel, which doesn't exactly scream "safety" to me.
So after all that blather what I'm asking is if anyone knows a good, hopefully not-too-expensive dolly option that would support a quirky bike model like this with its wide back tire. I'm ideally hoping for a unit that's one solid piece and not those ones that are independent dollies for under each wheel with or without some small bit of square tubing or whatever connecting them. Those seem flimsy and potentially problematic.
My only other hitch in this whole process is that while I know this is a forum for the GTA, I'm not actually in Ontario. I'm across the country in BC, but this was the only dedicated Canadian motorcycle forum I could find that was fairly active and I didn't want to ask a primarily American community or something more global like reddit since that could add complications to any purchase. But my being outside of the Toronto area or Ontario entirely means that local purchase options for you won't be an option for me.
Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.
Forgive me if I've committed any sort of poor forum etiquette byt here but I hope you'll understand my choices and predicament after I explain myself.
This post isn't even actually about me, but rather my dad and his bike. He has a 2006 Victory Jackpot that he bought off someone a few years ago and he currently stores it in his workshop. But it tends to sit out in the middle of the shop floor because he doesn't like having to maneuver it up to/away from a wall or out-of-the-way space for riding even when it's potentially weeks between rides for him.
The problem is that I use his shop to do some work in and it's annoying having to move it out of the way when I want to use the space and then haul it back out when I'm done or attempting to work around it. I've been looking into buying him a storage dolly that has casters on it so it'll be easy to wheel around in any direction, but the problem I've found is that this model of motorcycle has a huge, fat/wide rear tire that is about 10 inches/250mm wide while a lot of the dollies I've looked into appear to have their channels or chocks only go about 7.5-8 inches wide. He has a dolly from Princess Auto that's one long channel with casters on either end and a small trough that sticks out on one side for the kickstand, but it's too narrow for this bike and the rear tire would sit up on the channel edges with no contact on the bottom of the wheel, which doesn't exactly scream "safety" to me.
So after all that blather what I'm asking is if anyone knows a good, hopefully not-too-expensive dolly option that would support a quirky bike model like this with its wide back tire. I'm ideally hoping for a unit that's one solid piece and not those ones that are independent dollies for under each wheel with or without some small bit of square tubing or whatever connecting them. Those seem flimsy and potentially problematic.
My only other hitch in this whole process is that while I know this is a forum for the GTA, I'm not actually in Ontario. I'm across the country in BC, but this was the only dedicated Canadian motorcycle forum I could find that was fairly active and I didn't want to ask a primarily American community or something more global like reddit since that could add complications to any purchase. But my being outside of the Toronto area or Ontario entirely means that local purchase options for you won't be an option for me.
Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.
