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@coldharbour you need to pull the backdrop further out, by this I mean try and make as much of a curve as you could, that'd get rid of the line of light across the bottom of the wall or make it less obvious, and shouldn't require any more space than what you have. You also probably don't need both lights. Try turning the softbox horizontally, make it as high as possible (ish), having it in the middle pointing down at the bike. Imaging how a direct sunlight is pointing at you. If space is tight, put the light behind you above your head to maximise the space. if the front of the softbox (that white bit of fabric) is removable, take it off and you'll get brighter light to compensate for just using 1 light and would give you a bit more contrast than using a soft box. Finally, you can get a big piece of white card (like A1 mounting board could be bought for or a couple of pounds, if that) to use as a reflector, position it on the floor and tilt it up at at slight angle at the bike.
Finally the black fabric is called velvet, but the good ones are expensive, no point in getting the cheap ones are they won't Make much difference, but if you are gonna be doing loads more stuff like this, might be worth investing as black velvet basically suck up all light and give you a much blacker.
Old school people call this lighting technique butterfly light, the oldest trick in the book for fashion and beauty shoots...