swingarm stand - help

[leem00]

Ok this is going to be my first attempt at putting the bike on a swing arm stand and doing some maintenance.

Question is do you chock the front wheel too, or just use the swing arm stand?

 

[Rabbitman109]

Ok this is going to be my first attempt at putting the bike on a swing arm stand and doing some maintenance.

Question is do you chock the front wheel too, or just use the swing arm stand?

Just the stand is all I ever did.

 

[stormrat]

I put mine up on both front and back stand. I think they are worth it as you can work on bike, clean tires easier, more sturdy when up and great for winter storage. I recommend both if ya got the greens What I don't like about FZ6R is no spools to have that confident lift and hang.

 

[leem00]

For $30 I going to buy the one for now...trying to figure out where to get the forklift adapters for the front. I am closing in on 600 miles and need to do the chain.

 

[alaskanflyboy]

I got the Trackside ones from Cycle Gear for about $45 each. They're pretty solid.

 

[stormrat]

Hope you can keep an eye on craigslist dot com for the front stand, maybe haggle out a decent deal, best thing I ever did was get lifts I use em all the time.

 

[Flipflash]

check eBay also. i saw some decent-looking, affordable ones on there.

 

[RoadTrip]

I got the vortex rear stand and a pitbull front stand.

I don't use spools (neither on the FZ6R or GSXR), I just lift from the bottom of the swingarm on both.

I do put the rear stand in back of bike ready to go, then put kickstand on a scrap 2x8 piece of wood (flat obviously) so bike is almost vertical, and steady bike from rear, then line up the stand and lift the bike (just gotta have balls and trust it, bike will be fine). but, be careful, the bike almost tipped over one time before I got it lifted, but I grabbed the tail and saved it.

Do rear first, then front stand second if you want (and front down first when lowering), no front chock is needed for rear stand only, it is very stable once lifted. I just use em to clean wheels and chain, was gonna use the stands to pull wheels and drop em off to save a few bucks, but decided to just keep paying the extra $20 to have a mechanic do all the work.

 

[KeysRider3]

Chock the front. It's not so much for lifting, but putting the rear wheel down again as the bike will tend to roll forward for the same reason it rolls backward when you're lifting.