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Alright, I'm a little lost. I'm trying to store my bike, but just realized there's nowhere for me to put in the spools.

I thought it was pretty standard to have somewhere on the rear swingarms to place spools for rear stands... any ideas?

Here's the stand I have, and I'm thinking I might have to return it :mad2:



looks very similar to this.

oh... well then - now i need to find my receipt so i can return the spools and that stand :S

you need a universal stand

Hi,
well your picture is not viewable here,
BUT you can always do as I did see:-
http://www.saltmine.org.uk/kgb/yp7.html

LF,
from the look of that paddock stand all you have to do is change the hooks to the out side and use the excess horizontal part to rest the bike on.

Ideally you could replace the horizontal part with apiece as in 95fzr's picture the metal tubing is standard size I would imagine at 25mm (1" sq) get a buddy to weld an upright to stop the bike sliding side ways .


I am glad I built my own then I could use it on 10 of my 11 bikes and cure the FZR problem of hanging the back end off a tie strap to fix the shocks as well :-

The early version :-http://www.saltmine.org.uk/fzr/paddockstand.html

95FZR600 wrote:Harbor freight is starting to carry more and more for motorcycles.

I'm giving serious thought to picking up one of their tire changers with motorcycle adapter and balancing wheel next year when I need new tires

_Will_ wrote:

95FZR600 wrote:Harbor freight is starting to carry more and more for motorcycles.

I'm giving serious thought to picking up one of their tire changers with motorcycle adapter and balancing wheel next year when I need new tires

Hi,
Jim Stewart has a HOW-To:- on using the Harbour Fright tyre machine in the WIKI see what he does & says help you make up your mind :-}

took me some digging but I found it George

http://www.saltmine.org.uk/kgb/tiremachine.html

the shop I ususally get my tires at has a similiar one, I'm more after the conventience of being able to swap when I damn well want to which is often at 1am when I'm bored and not sleeping. I also have a pretty bad self sufficence kick where I like to be able to do everything myself

_Will_ wrote:took me some digging but I found it George

http://www.saltmine.org.uk/kgb/tiremachine.html

the shop I ususally get my tires at has a similiar one, I'm more after the conventience of being able to swap when I damn well want to which is often at 1am when I'm bored and not sleeping. I also have a pretty bad self sufficence kick where I like to be able to do everything myself

I'll let you know how it goes once I get mine mounted in the shop. Since I have 6 sets of rims/tires I need to swap and the dealer wanted 35-40 per tire I said no thanks. I grabbed old moto mags and car mags and snagged the 20% off coupons in there for harbor and picked up the tire changer and moto adapter for about 100 total. I watched a few video's on youtube and it looked like an ok setup. Even if it only works for a few set changes I will have gotten my money's worth.

The place I get my tires at isn't techinically a shop, it's one of those places that has an open bay and you sign a waiver to use their equipment. Even then they usually mount and balance your tires to help you out if needed without charging, you take them off and help where you can. There prices are usually pretty good, I just want my own.