I have a 70lb ebike that I love, but it’s been difficult and dangerous to get it up and down the stairs to my apartment’s basement bike storage room. The HOA refuses to install (or allow me to install) a bike ramp to make it easier. Any tricks or anything I can buy to accomplish this?
A plank that’s long enough to reach from the top step to the ground and with a miter cut into it the same angle as the slope of the stairs should stay in place fairly well. If you really want to keep it in place without having to attach it to anything, cut a triangle (or two) that fits in the gap between your plank and one of the steps, with the angle on it the same as the slope of the stairs, and screw it to the underside of your plank.
Your load will be bone by whatever step this rests on and it will have to slide quite far, the depth of an entire stair tread, before it can fall off and slide down the stairs. When you’re done with this contraption you can just pick it up and stash it somewhere.
If you haven’t got a circular saw you’ll have to borrow one from somebody or rope someone in to helping you with this, but you should be able to do it with just three cuts. You can make it all out of the same length of 2x10, or whatever it is you wind up using.
Note that the taller the stairs are the longer and more unwieldy this will have to be…