OK this is kind of Dumb

[feejer222]

Feejer. My first post and I get a response from home,I lived and worked in Manchester before coming to USA. Been in Yankieland for 20 odd years now,not too bad now some breweries have discovered beers allowed to have flavour. If we could only get the road contruction crews to stop building straight roads it'd be one hell of a country.

Good lad Slimey, sort em all out mate! Where in Manchester are you from/did you live? We are in Stockport.

 

[Slimey]

Feejer. My first post and I get a response from home,I lived and worked in Manchester before coming to USA. Been in Yankieland for 20 odd years now,not too bad now some breweries have discovered beers allowed to have flavour. If we could only get the road contruction crews to stop building straight roads it'd be one hell of a country.

Good lad Slimey, sort em all out mate! Where in Manchester are you from/did you live? We are in Stockport.

Worked and lived near Picadilly, grew up near Clitheroe off the A59.One of my worst hangovers ever was from a new years eve party in Stockport.Had some good friends grow up in that area, so I've spent a little time aound there.

Not been there for years though.

Watch out for the bloody cameras, that delight has not been incorporated into the states yet, thank heavens.One of the nice things about a really big country is there's plenty of places to sneak off to to open up your bike. Tough for the nick nicks to cover the square miles. :yahoo:

 

[Karmak]

For the life of me I could not get anything up on a center stand by pulling/pushing/lifting, etc. By accident I simply stood on the stand with all my weight and it pops up. Since you are standing to the left of it to begin with, I guess you may be applying a bit of rearword pressure, but that's what always confused me. Simply grab it at the handlebar/grab rail, find the stand's balance point and with your right foot on the stand, put all your weight on it. "Pop!" Goes the weasel!

 

[Luke]

The "Key" to this operation is to make sure the bike is level with equal pressure on both legs of the stand.

 

[feejer222]

Feejer. My first post and I get a response from home,I lived and worked in Manchester before coming to USA. Been in Yankieland for 20 odd years now,not too bad now some breweries have discovered beers allowed to have flavour. If we could only get the road contruction crews to stop building straight roads it'd be one hell of a country.

Good lad Slimey, sort em all out mate! Where in Manchester are you from/did you live? We are in Stockport.

Worked and lived near Picadilly, grew up near Clitheroe off the A59.One of my worst hangovers ever was from a new years eve party in Stockport.Had some good friends grow up in that area, so I've spent a little time aound there.

Not been there for years though.

Watch out for the bloody cameras, that delight has not been incorporated into the states yet, thank heavens.One of the nice things about a really big country is there's plenty of places to sneak off to to open up your bike. Tough for the nick nicks to cover the square miles. :yahoo:

You must have left in the middle of the Jim Davidson era, they havn't been called nick nick's for years :lol: Nice to speak to someone from so close to us. I often comment how great it looks over there for riding. There are a few ex-Brits on this forum that live out there. Silver Penguin from Yorkshire, Rogdeb from the Wirral spring to mind.

 

[canucklehead-biker]

Agree with earlier post... if you get the pegs down and let the weight of the bike do the work for you it is one of the easiest bikes to get on the stand. I'm not all that large, and the weight of the bike is intimidating, but it is just a question of technique and getting over the fear of dropping the thing.

Left hand on left grip, right hand on grab point under seat, let the bike lean into you slightly. Make sure you brace the pegs with your foot, roll her back with a little pull on the grab rail and the bike should pop up as if by magic.

Griff

 

[boomerang]

Thanks for your help, I think the problem is I'm so paranoid about dropping the bike away from me that I don't have it on both feet of the stand. I'm greatful for the feedback.

You could practice while having a friend stand on the other side of the bike to help steady it. That way you can polish your technique and get a "feel' for doing it by yourself.

Just remember if it starts to feel like it's going over the other way just stand down harder on the center stand and it will come back towards you.

 

[dragonchef]

If you happen to park on a slope, even slight, be sure that you park with the rear wheel on the "downhill" side. Muscling that baby uphill is a bitch, and can cause problems (like a pulled muscle, just ask me).

 

[wheatonFJR]

Feejer. My first post and I get a response from home,I lived and worked in Manchester before coming to USA. Been in Yankieland for 20 odd years now,not too bad now some breweries have discovered beers allowed to have flavour. If we could only get the road contruction crews to stop building straight roads it'd be one hell of a country.

Good lad Slimey, sort em all out mate! Where in Manchester are you from/did you live? We are in Stockport.

Worked and lived near Picadilly, grew up near Clitheroe off the A59.One of my worst hangovers ever was from a new years eve party in Stockport.Had some good friends grow up in that area, so I've spent a little time aound there.

Not been there for years though.

Watch out for the bloody cameras, that delight has not been incorporated into the states yet, thank heavens.One of the nice things about a really big country is there's plenty of places to sneak off to to open up your bike. Tough for the nick nicks to cover the square miles. :yahoo:

You must have left in the middle of the Jim Davidson era, they havn't been called nick nick's for years :lol: Nice to speak to someone from so close to us. I often comment how great it looks over there for riding. There are a few ex-Brits on this forum that live out there. Silver Penguin from Yorkshire, Rogdeb from the Wirral spring to mind.

And Chris/BugR who now lives in Canuckistan.

 

[odot]

I knew there was a taliban faction up north.......durka durka....mohammad jihad.

 

[canucklehead-biker]

Durka Durka back at ya!

Griff (Canuckistani FJR-type)

 

[r1byker]

All comments seem to give great advice. What I've found to help after being a bike salesman & partsman is to concentrate on the feel of having both centerstand feet on level ground. Press down firmly with right leg which should do most of the work for you & guide the bike to the rear with both arms. I feel the leg is key, it's generally the strongest muscle in the body.

I'm in total agreement with this one: "The leg is the key." I concentrate on pushing down hard with my right leg and let the arms guide the bike. Very little upper body strength is involved. The bike comes right up because the centerstand is "levering" it up. I have tried other ways (lifting more with arms, rolling backwards and using momentum) and this is, by far, the easiest. Fyi, 5'8", 160 lbs.