Main Stand installation tips

[marc]

Just brought a main stand from honda for my RD07A. Lots of bits in the box

Anybody installed one and got any tips??

Cheers.

Marc

[1gear1brake]

You have to remove the exhaust header pipes to gain access to the right side fitting. As long as you don't mind doing this, the stand is easy to fit. Installing the springs is not quite as easy. I hooked them over the top and used a big lever to stretch them over the bottom fitting (one at a time rather than both together). Somebody else may have a better technique than that however.

Good luck

[btbloke]

ratchett straps for the springs,in place at the front and pulled rearward and one goes inside the other(you'll figure out which)new exhaust gaskets if you're taking off the exhaust.

[1gear1brake]

one goes inside the other(you'll figure out which)

Both springs are the same size on my two bikes' main stands and go side by side.

[marc]

ratchett straps for the springs,in place at the front and pulled rearward and one goes inside the other(you'll figure out which)new exhaust gaskets if you're taking off the exhaust.

They actually give you the gaskets with the honda one.

[Mutley]

Hi Marc

You can install the centrestand without taking the exhausts off..

Just install the 'pin' under the exhaust side the other way round. By that I mean install it from under the bike facing outwards. To do this you need to cut a few millimetres of the length of the collar off and redrill it for the splitpin. I cut mine just on the inside of the existing spiltpin.

It makes it very easy to place the stand under and fit the pins. Only problem then is to fit the springs!! The 2p peices in several of the coils b4 installing to lengthen the spring seems to work ok

Good luck

TA! Shel

[GSPD750]

Just brought a main stand from honda for my RD07A. Lots of bits in the box

Anybody installed one and got any tips??

Cheers.

Marc

No instructions included in the box?

The following may help.

AfricaTwin.co.uk - XRV750 > Fitting a Honda Centre Stand to XRV750W (7A)

[Whealie]

my tip for the springs is here

[marc]

Job done, with no nasty lumps taken out of my hands.

Put it on the padock stand then wired the springs with one of those bolts with the eye one end and the nut the other. Put some old handlebars through the padock stand then bolted through and wound the bolt until the springs just popped over the bracket.

Thanks for your tips.