Front paddock stand

As I generously gave my front paddock stand to Nige yesterday [1], I
need to buy a replacement, fairly sharpish. So has anyone bought one
recently? Anyone care to recommend one?

I fancy one that supports the headstock, rather than the forks, as
I've several sets of forks to change in the near future.


[1] he was collecting my Gixxer 600 for a day at Donington today[2],
and the forecast was for rain. Not much point me tucking him up with
wets on wheels if he couldn't change them.
[2] Got a text from him, saying he'd embarassed some litre bike
owners. I called him, and he's had an absolute whale of a time; I'm
obviously very pleased for him. just wished I'd got more money for
the bike

 

Wait five minutes and it will be Niged on ebay by him.

 

Abbasport one like you used round at mine a couple of weeks ago and a
concrete block to pop on the pillion seat?

http://www.abbastands.co.uk/default.asp

 

Oh fucking hell aye, what a difference a proper race bike makes. Bloody
superb fun & one bloke on a gixxer thou in our garage didn't talk to me
again after i hammered the **** out of him time & time again. I managed to
ground out a fucking peg on it, **** knows how they are so high! Took a nice
bit off me boot too.

Cheers Neal, we only missed one session due to rain

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Aprilia RSV Mille

 

If you're doing that, you're not hanging off enough. Do you have your
knee on, or nearly on, the deck? Race bikes generally have fixed
(i.e. not folding) pegs, which *will* dig in. Also, you're too near
the edge of the tyre - you don't want to ride off the edge of it, and
any extra stress you put on it (accelerating, changing direction to
correct line/avoid someone/etc) could be more than it can handle.

<thinks>

I'd also guess that, being a bit, er, bigger than me, you're probably
compressing the suspension a fair bit more, which is another reason
you're running out of ground clearance. And the suspension is
probably fairly soft anyway, as it was always setup for the roads, not
short circuits.

That was lucky. That run down Craner Curves is one of biking's great
experiences when you get it right.

 

Seconded, I use one on mine all the time and its bloody brilliant.

If you need to lift the front a jack under the exhaust will do it (the
bikes purty well balanced at the swing arm pivot and its no effort at
all to lift it.

--
Gavin.

For the road: GSXR600K1
For the track: <gone>
Current project: Peugeot Speedfight 2
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Yeah, I know, the hanging off thing is something i got my head round in the
last session pretty well, never had such ground clearance before

There was no suspension setup bloke here today, the front end is too soft,
but having said that, the brakes are something else when you really need
them I aint twiddling the knobs myself, as I'll **** it up. But as a
starter for 10, it's absolutely fucking brilliant, even for a big bloke like
me.

Is that the set of bends right after the first corner? If so I had had them
nailed flat out I really didn't like the corner after that, a tight right
hander that you can't see untill you're on it.

The track had muck & shit all over it from the BTCC yesterday.

The bike surprised me & pretty much everyone in our garages (about 10 bikes)
& most of the blokes there could ride bloody well. I surprised myself, which
was nice

I'll chuck a vid up later, some of my lines may not be the right ones, but i
felt i got the job done Mind you, there was a few proper fuckpots about.
One bloke had an R1 in Rossi colours, the whole dayglo leathers & the old
hairstyle. He was part of some race team & he got dispensed with in seconds.
The BSB boys where there today too.

Thats the positive bit, the negaitive bit is my mates 6r fell over as i
walked past & the fucking thing knocked me clean over. Now this bit will
make you laugh, i landed on my wallet & it's given me a big **** off bruise
on my arse The same 6r that collected the fucking Pheasant.

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Aprilia RSV Mille

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Nige

****! For a Yorkshireman that can be a life-threatening injury.

Get it checked out Nige. I don't want to end up higher in the sweariest
mo-fo stats than I am now.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Get the suspension right and you'll be amazed at how much more there
is to come!

I've just emailed you for your address, as I've found the Ohlins
owners manual and the Maxton data/setup sheet for the forks.

Ah, that's the old hairpin. Waaaaaaay faster than it looks, actually.

All good news.

Laugh? I think I might piss myself...

 

Bwahaha!

There's a joke there about a Yorkshireman and a fat wallet I reckon but
it's pretty tricky to stereotype you as the quintessential tight
Yorkshireman seeing you do seem to spend rather a lot of money on a new
bike every five minutes.

 

Only because he can turn a profit selling them to foreigners.

Where there's muck...

 

Classic, my arse is killing me

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Aprilia RSV Mille

 

BTW, many thanks for that, I owe you a pint or two for that


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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Aprilia RSV Mille

 

You do, I've just had to order a replacement, at 60 quid! The
replacement is better, mind, supporting under the headstock, rather
than under the forks (which ain't much use when you want to remove the
forks). More of a pain is that it's going to take 7~10 days to
arrive, and I need it in, er, 7~10 days...

 

I have a headstock stand you can borrow if you need one desperately.
Failing that I can loan you 'Bjorn Again', my Abba-style stand.