Beav wrote:

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> "Lozzo" <lozzo@lozzo.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:6hloijFm8fd8U1@mid.individual.net...
> > Beav wrote:
> >
> > >
> >>"TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmailbox@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> > > news:a7e96645-326c-4e1b-ba2c-09915635930b@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups
> > > .com ...
> > >
> >>> Actually, I only fit them myself to smaller bikes these days. It's
> >>> an arse-ache of a job and it's something I'm happy to pay my
> dealer >>> to do, especially on things like the BMW, or bikes without
> a centre >>> stand (which have to be hung from a ceiling beam).
> > >
> > > What you need sitting in the garage is an ABBA stand and a big
> > > bag of sand (or cement in my case).
> > >
> > > The ABBA lifts the bike at the swingarm pivot and a hefty weight
> > > on the pillion seat allows me to rock every bike I've used it on
> > > far enough to easily remove the front wheel.
> > >
> > > A bloody Godsend those stands.
> >
> > You should invest in the better verson, like mine, if you can find
> > one.
> >
> > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/...0fd97c00_o.jpg
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> If I want both ends stripped, what I do is get the bike on the lift,
> then ABBA it up, slip a strap over the back and attach the other end
> to the chassis of the lift. A couple of pumps on the lever and both
> wheels are off the lift and I can remove the "under the back wheel
> plate" to make for a piss easy re-fit.
>
> I do like that stand of yours though.

Thanks. I bought it from a firm in Norwich about 10 years ago, just
after I got my Firestorm. I'd seen a ZX7R with no wheels sitting on one
for about three weeks in Tinklers of Norwich, so I searched out who
made them and bought mine direct. I think it cost me 90 quid with
fittings to suit the Firestorm, and since then I've made or adapted
fittings to suit a variety of bikes. Next project is to develop a
universal cone fitting so I can use it on any bike without the need for
specific fittings to be turned up.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka
and a shit load more 2-wheeled junk in the garage
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