Ramp To Front of House Walkway

Supercell

The front of the place i'm currently living has a step thats about 7" high, which is a bit high to drive a bike over, I tried it on my last bike (a Yamaha Virago) and broke half the spokes on the back wheel, which was expensive to fix.
Atm the bigger newer bike is something I don't want to park on the street, so am working around the problem by placing a couple of small bricks and a wooden plank which works well as a leadup to the step, but is a bit of a pain to setup twice a day, and not fun in the mornings reversing over.

Ideally, i'd get a ramp of some kind that could be just chucked around the side of the house after using. I am renting so out of the question is messing about with concrete.

Anyone know of where to buy such a thing?

rymus

if you're handy with a blowtorch and have a few odd bits of metal around I've a zany idea for a ramp. I'll google it a bit to see if I can find anything similar that can be bought but right off the bat I'd say if it's something you cant build yourself or get someone to build for you, it's back to the plank & blocks.

rymus

actually.. sucks to that.... If you can get your hands on a short length of this stuff, you're sorted

Victor

You don't need planning permisson (unless it's a listed building), but you do need your landlord's permission.

You can either buy the concrete from the likes of Readymix or Roadstone or make it up yourself - you can get the materials from Roadstone or a builder's providers.

Should be at least 150mm thick if it's taking the bike, with a further 150mm of broken stone underneath. The base should be level, not following the slope. Provide adequate flat ground at the top and bottom, so you can stop safely at both ends.

See pic.

rymus

I think I'm going a bit too far now.. but shur, what about it

A bit of googling found the "roll-a-ramp", supplied by a company in Kildare. They supply ramps & so on for wheelchair users to be able to access buildings. It says on the site that a single width ramp will support 450kg.

Might be unGodly expensive but shur.. it's an option.
http://www.tmlms.net/rollaramp.html

seamus

Twouldn't be too difficult to build a wooden ramp at about a 30° angle. After a few short sums, if the step is 7" high, the ramp would be 12.12" at the base. So only about a foot long. Not too big. If you make the main part of the ramp out of a good quality wood, and make it slenderish, about a foot wide, it should also last a good while under the weight of the bike.

Supercell

Thanks for all the suggestions, think it a little bit of woodwork this weekend be the project.