Making a bike stand

I was thinking about building a wooden bike stand out of 2x4's and other random wood I have laying around. Can anyone give me pointers?

If youre ok with removing the front wheel, these are the most epically winning clamps ever:

mount to a 2x4 with legs. Remove the front wheel, set on clamp and tighten it on. should work for practically any bicycle fork.

I put four screw eyes into the ceiling joists in my basement and hang my bikes from adjustable tie downs.

Should have said motorbike.

Built one about a year and 1/2 ago. This is from the thread I posted about it. Do not use particle board. Use marine grade plywood. But even then, you are in this for less than $100. Maybe another $40 for the HF wheel chock, but I got mine on sale.

Got linked to this do it yourself bike stand from another forum I frequent. It looks pretty cool and cheap; http://www.bbcracing.com/old/box/

So my ambition often causes me to over-estimate my free time.

But I did finally do this. Got it done tonight. From start to finish, 3 hours, not counting the trip to Home Depot, maybe 30 more minutes.

Yeah, I could have gotten my van, but its in Moore and I wanted to see if someone could do this with a regular car. I took the website's advice and had them cut it there. That is just the three long pieces up there. The three smaller ones are in the back seat

That’s right ladies, that is a 1984 diesel. Sorry, I'm taken.

The web page said he measured the center stand of his two bikes to determine the placement of the center crosspiece. So I started doing the same. I laid the top piece on the floor and rolled my bikes onto it and started marking them.

But those are my only 2 with center stands. The DRZ actually lined up about the same and the R6 has no stand at all, so I went with these 2 marks, turned out to be 4 feet exactly.

The table saw was 2 small for the big pieces, so I used my circular saw and jigsaw the get the three cuts. I also marked them to keep myself on track. I know that the idea is this is completely modular, but I am not the best carpenter so I decided to keep it in order, hence the markings.

The three smaller bits came pretty quick, as I could use my table saw there.

I used the middle piece to mark the wider front piece.

I have 2 of those Harbor Freight wheel chocks I use for my trailer, so I figured I'd mount it here, which would make it easier for a single person to load a bike.

The final product, as she sits right now.

Being a cheap bastard, I used 1/2 inch particle board. That was a mistake. The first time I pushed that damm pig of a bike up the ramp, I got 3/4 of the way and I grabbed the front brake to hold it while I got a better position to push it all the way up. The surface is too slick and the front tire slid while the bike rolled back down the ramp. I almost dumped it.

So the next run at it was done a little faster and I hit the stand pretty hard. When I was ratcheting the bike in place, I noticed I had stressed the front long pieces. They cracked, so I ran a couple of screws into the top panel to hold everything in place. That defeats the easily collapsible feature of the thing, but it is strong. That is a 1980 GS 750 and it is pretty heavy. I also stood up there to set the center stand and no issues.

So for basically 3 hours and less than $40, I have a motorcycle stand. I will probably rebuild it with better plywood and drop more like $70 into it, but even a cheap Harbor Freight one is a few hundred bones and can't be dissassemble for storage.