UtahPete
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It is, but why a hinged plate? I'm just wondering if it has that built-in adjustability for a reason.
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Can anyone with a Big Blue Lift provide advice on my lifting issues?
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It's been a while since I've bothered to use it/all the Big Blue's features, and I can't quite picture where that bit is atm (you got a better pic?? One showing all if the arms/components that match up to the Spyder maybe?? 
I'm not in a position/able to dig BB out atm, he's under too much stuff that's been used more recently! Kids, why can't they put things back where they came from!! And who was it who said "They'll get better once they've turned 20... then 30... then 40; only now they're all over 40, and they STILL aren't any better at that!
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Doesn't that hinged bit flip up so that as you slit the jack underneath and then raise it, that bit inserts up into the gap on the other (or front?) side (end?) of the spar, helping hold the whole thing secure and stopping it slipping off BB??
Like I said, it's been a while, and my forgettory does sometimes work overtime on details like that (but my muscle memory is good, I can still run the forms with or without a sparring partner, and drive the Test Track at the Bend blindfolded without missing a corner or hitting a kerb, a bump, or a guard rail!
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I'm not in a position/able to dig BB out atm, he's under too much stuff that's been used more recently! Kids, why can't they put things back where they came from!! And who was it who said "They'll get better once they've turned 20... then 30... then 40; only now they're all over 40, and they STILL aren't any better at that!
But...Doesn't that hinged bit flip up so that as you slit the jack underneath and then raise it, that bit inserts up into the gap on the other (or front?) side (end?) of the spar, helping hold the whole thing secure and stopping it slipping off BB??
Like I said, it's been a while, and my forgettory does sometimes work overtime on details like that (but my muscle memory is good, I can still run the forms with or without a sparring partner, and drive the Test Track at the Bend blindfolded without missing a corner or hitting a kerb, a bump, or a guard rail!
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UtahPete
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It's been a while since I've bothered to use it/all the Big Blue's features, and I can't quite picture where that bit is atm (you got a better pic?? One showing all if the arms/components that match up to the Spyder maybe??
I'm not in a position/able to dig BB out atm, he's under too much stuff that's been used more recently! Kids, why can't they put things back where they came from!! And who was it who said "They'll get better once they've turned 20... then 30... then 40; only now they're all over 40, and they STILL aren't any better at that!
Doesn't that hinged bit flip up so that as you slit the jack underneath and then raise it, that bit inserts up into the gap on the other (or front?) side (end?) of the spar, helping hold the whole thing secure and stopping it slipping off BB??
Like I said, it's been a while, and my forgettory does sometimes work overtime on details like that (but my muscle memory is good, I can still run the forms with or without a sparring partner, and drive the Test Track at the Bend blindfolded without missing a corner or hitting a kerb, a bump, or a guard rail!
Oh, so that mess in the garage is somebody else's fault? Ha!
I'll take some more pics and post them. Tomorrow. After I clean out the mess my neighbor's distant relatives left behind after camping out for a week because he didn't want them crashing at his place when they dropped in unexpectedly on their way through on their annual pilgrimage to ...never mind
UtahPete
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Okay, @Peter Aawen I'm inclined to agree with you that the piece in question is designed to be flipped up somehow after getting BB under the Spyder so that it, together with the rear bracket under the bike's rear shock, contribute to overall stability. The instructions that come with the lift don't mention it at all, that I can find anyway, hence the question.
There are four bolt holes in the plate and in the lifting arm, so it may be that it's designed to be bolted flush on top of the arm, just so the u-channel of the arm isn't biting into the bike frame. Or, as you say, it's designed to be bolted just at one end so it can flip up after the lift is under the frame. The problem with the latter orientation is that with the bolts in place it won't flip up up very far because of a tang on the trailing edge of the plate.
Anyway here's the pics.
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There are four bolt holes in the plate and in the lifting arm, so it may be that it's designed to be bolted flush on top of the arm, just so the u-channel of the arm isn't biting into the bike frame. Or, as you say, it's designed to be bolted just at one end so it can flip up after the lift is under the frame. The problem with the latter orientation is that with the bolts in place it won't flip up up very far because of a tang on the trailing edge of the plate.
Anyway here's the pics.
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Orright, I've had a bit of a dig thru the layers and managed to get a thorough cursory glance at the BB buried in my shed... 
For whatever it's worth, I reckon there's meant to be FOUR (4) bolts securing that plate you pictured in post #19, bolts that match up to the holes in the sides of the channel underneath. That plate section is meant to be bolted down by those 4 bolts so as to form a flat surface for the front of the Spyder's main spar to sit on.
I appear to have an extra piece of metal/channel bolted onto the BB in my shed, using the front two bolts (the two bolts that your pic DOESN'T have/show) so that, once the extra bit is flipped up vertically, it has a flat section (which is almost as wide as the channel below) that projects upwards so that it can slot neatly into (and positively locate the front of the Spyder) a hole/slot cut into the rear edge of the alloy skid plate I have bolted underneath my Spyder (an alloy skid plate which juuust overlaps the front of the main spar) where many of you North American Spyder owners might have a Bumpskid or similar mounted, at least if you no longer have the OEM piece of flimsy plastic skid plate still mounted there, anyway?!
This/however many years it is down track, I no longer know for sure, but I have a fairly strong feeling that this extra bit I have there may have been a 'Peter Aawen add-on' designed to positively locate the front end of the lifting arm by keying the add-on flip up bit into that slot cut in the middle rear of my alloy skid plate; cos without it, that flat front section you are questioning is just a flat pad of shiny metal that has another flat pad of slippery Spyder main spar sitting on it, basically only located by the weight of the Spyder and that pain in the **** flimsy 'U-clamp' thingy around the foot peg...
Over to you...
For whatever it's worth, I reckon there's meant to be FOUR (4) bolts securing that plate you pictured in post #19, bolts that match up to the holes in the sides of the channel underneath. That plate section is meant to be bolted down by those 4 bolts so as to form a flat surface for the front of the Spyder's main spar to sit on.
I appear to have an extra piece of metal/channel bolted onto the BB in my shed, using the front two bolts (the two bolts that your pic DOESN'T have/show) so that, once the extra bit is flipped up vertically, it has a flat section (which is almost as wide as the channel below) that projects upwards so that it can slot neatly into (and positively locate the front of the Spyder) a hole/slot cut into the rear edge of the alloy skid plate I have bolted underneath my Spyder (an alloy skid plate which juuust overlaps the front of the main spar) where many of you North American Spyder owners might have a Bumpskid or similar mounted, at least if you no longer have the OEM piece of flimsy plastic skid plate still mounted there, anyway?!
This/however many years it is down track, I no longer know for sure, but I have a fairly strong feeling that this extra bit I have there may have been a 'Peter Aawen add-on' designed to positively locate the front end of the lifting arm by keying the add-on flip up bit into that slot cut in the middle rear of my alloy skid plate; cos without it, that flat front section you are questioning is just a flat pad of shiny metal that has another flat pad of slippery Spyder main spar sitting on it, basically only located by the weight of the Spyder and that pain in the **** flimsy 'U-clamp' thingy around the foot peg...
Over to you...
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