How do you get it up???

Get you minds out of the gutter

This is a question regarding center stands. Now that I have a bike that has one, HOW IN THE **** ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GET IT UP BY YOUR SELF (I MEAN THE BIKE ON THE CENTER STAND, GEEESH)!!!!

Changed the oil on saturday and had to have my wife help me get onto the stand. So to those of you that have one, especially you VFR, SPRINT and Futura owners, do you have any advice/recommendations/secrets?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

(And no Viagra comments please)

I'm with ya Andy. I got my VFR a few days after you and I have tried numerous times to get the D*&N thing up on the center stand. I have no problem getting Kim's EX 500 up though.

I'll be interested in seeing the answer to your question.


Pete

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverQuotes.html



I think it all boils down to less lifting with the hands/back, or more weight on the center-stand lever...?

Specifically, for the RST:

1. right foot pushes center stand to ground.
2. left hand on left bar, right hand on handhold (on the RST, just in front of the left pillion peg, on the frame), rock bike slightly to ensure both legs of the CS are on the ground
3. Move the bike to its rear, mainly by standing on the center stand lever, and helping just a tad with the right hand, but mainly using arms for balance.

Works for me, except when I push the bike away from me at a gas station....

technique

Howdy,

First you need to eat lots of Blue Bell ice cream so that you'll weigh enough to make a difference :P Since I have that under control... Well anyway, left hand on the left grip, right hand on the GIVI wingrack brace down by the passenger foot peg. I lift the bike upright and push down on the stand with my foot until I can feel that both feet of the stand are touching before I give it the heave-ho. I don't really pull the bike backwards. I lift with the right hand at the same time that I am pushing down on the stand's lever arm. It is partly my weight but mostly the force between the hand and foot. I am pushing the rear of the bike and the stand away from each other. This lets me put more force on the stand lever arm than just that of my body weight. My bike is easier to do than Beth's because she does not have the GIVI wingrack to grab. I grab her passenger foot peg bracket and do the same thing. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO LET THE BIKE LEAN AWAY FROM YOU!! I don't recommend trying to get the bike on the stand at the end of a ride when you are a little pooped. If you don't get it up all the way and have to let it back down, it is real easy to have it come down hard and bounce away from you. Saw a bud do it and it did some damage to the bike when it fell.

Maybe we need to do a seminar?

WOW...now I feel like a total fool. I have been sitting on the **** thing trying to rock it back. Ok lesson learned there

Thanks for the input guys.

Don't feel bad, after two back surgeries, I was scared if the bike tried to lean that I wouldn't have the strength to pull it back in (not that I could have even without the surgeries), so I tried the same thing. I sat on it and rocked it until I was blue in the face. I had the dealer show me, but he basically muscled it up (still no good for me). I bought a pit bull stand and used that until this very same thing came up on another list. If you do it just like buck000 and tourmeister say, then the thing will come right up.

Bill

Try a Concours sometime--on top of being heavy, she's TOP heavy, so in case (when) something goes wrong, they go really wrong in a hurry.

I found that I was trying to direct my force more rearward than downward. After reading about how a 140 lb guy always had to help his 250 lb friend get his connie on the stand, I figured at 6'6" and 235, there was no excuse. He was right, just had to focus on directing the force downward & up she came.

Centerstands may be a challenge, but compared to all the hassle my buddies have to go thru with their separate stands, I'll take a CS anyday.

>> HOW IN THE **** ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GET IT UP BY YOUR SELF (I MEAN THE BIKE ON THE CENTER STAND, GEEESH)!!!! <<

Just remember that you don't "pull" the bike up on the center stand. You use the leverage of the stand to put it up by firmly standing on it and pushing down. You really shouldn't have do much pulling at all.

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Thanks all,

just went out to the garage, and right up it came (well maybe slowly at first as I was just a little worried about the bike falling over).

Thanks again.

Ditto.

Thanks all, I cannot beleive it was that easy. Now it's ready for the first oil change this weekend.

Cheers,
Pete

Okay, now that you new VFRers have gotten it up okay, time for some riding impressions... Andy, howzit comparing to the SV?