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I've got a centre stand from Norman Hyde here in the UK that I have used for over a year. He also does a grab handle a bit like on a BMW. It works well and I can even put it on the stand when fully loaded. Never caught it on the road either so must be well designed.

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Phil: I was really annoyed that my 02 America didn't come with a center stand. Mostly because it made it difficult to work on my chain. But they weren't even available then.
Ted

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Soren, I purchased one of these a few months back, and I here was my review of it in an earlier thread....

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...part=3&vc=1

Btw, there is one addendum I will add to my earlier positive review here, and that would be that since stating in that earlier review that I haven't grounded the stand's deployment lever in left-leaning twisties, I now have done so in a few instances when I'm REALLY leanin' my bike over into 'em at considerable speed.

(...but then again, I've only done that on "my own personal little racetrack", aka a particular section AZ HWY-89 known as White Spar Pass near my home here in Prescott, and where I know every foot of this 14 mile section of this highway...if ya catch my drift!)

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How jarring was the scrape? Any worse than pegs or footboards?

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... re the center stand. I know what you mean about this issue. I haven't mentioned the following before, but yeah, I did run into a similar issue with mine when I was bolting it up.

What I did to get it to swing forward enough was to take my bench grinder and ground down the two little stopping "nubs" about 1/16 inch or so along the side of 'em that swing along the bottom of the bike's frame rail. That allowed the stand to swing a little more forward before the those nubs land up against that section of the frame rail.

There still appears to be plenty enough of those nubs left to be strong and sturdy enough to support the whole structure whenever the stand is being engaged.

I do think an alternate plan might be to slightly grind down the bottom and back corner of that frame rail mounting area enough to allow those nubs to engage further forward.

Yeah, it does seem a slight shame that one has to do this to get these stands to work perfectly, but I've just chalked this all up in the "Minor/Personal Preference Adjustment" column.

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Good idea about forwarding my comments to the distributor, Phil. Yep, it seems all they'd have to do is move those stop pins(nubs) down about that 1/16" to 1/8" from the pivot point in order for the stand to work properly right out of the box.

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As far as I know, the frame has been the same from '02 to 2011. The 2011's and '12s might even be the same.

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That's interesting. A UK division. And no connection to the Norman Hyde centerstand. Hmmmmm... Looks exactly the same...

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I agree It does look like the Hyde stand and so does the grab handle, but he says there's no affiliation; I believe the statement was "he does his thing, and we do ours".

I found that grinding .100" off the .397 dia stop pins, making a flat that is perpendicular to the welded brace gusset, makes the stand stop at 15 degrees to the ground forward of the pivot point with the flat essentially parallel to the bottom of the frame. It took a pretty good oomph to roll it off the stand so I think this is the way it was intended to fit.

The stands' foot pads were sitting on their back edges at this angle, though, so I took it off and whacked them with a hammer to bend the edges up a bit; the new paint is drying as I type. I think it will work fine as soon as I get the rubber bumper stop from Dave that someone forgot to include and for which he profusely apologized.

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You got it installed yet? I'm anxious to hear about it and see pics. I emailed them (through ebay) if they had pics or why I should buy theirs instead of the Rivco or Norman Hyde, and price was about all they could tell me.

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final update (I hope)

I received the missing rubber stop today and installed my modified stand with the stop pins ground .100 to form flats perpendicular to the brace gussets (photos below).

Taking .100 off the pin diameters set the stand at 15 degrees to the ground with the rear tire just off the ground when my bike is on the center stand, and it takes a healthy push to roll it off the stand. I like the stability that gives, but others might want to try a bit less grinding and shoot for 10 degrees to leave more rear tire clearance. Also, at 15 degrees the end of the lever arm on the left side is also on the ground, so TEC may have intended 10 degrees rather than 15.

Here's a stop pin with ground flat after painting



Here's the bike on the modified stand



Measuring the resulting stand angle at 15 degrees



Right foot pad at 15 degrees (I did whack the back edge up a bit before painting)



Left foot pad on ground at 15 degrees (whacked it too)



Lever arm also on the ground at 15 degrees



I really like the stand after doing a little work to it. With my bike on the stand the rear wheel turns to work on the chain, I can check the oil level without fear of the bike getting away from me, and on rainy Saturdays I can sit in the bike shed on that nice Corbin seat, lean back, prop my feet up on the highway pegs, and imagine cruising down route 66 while listening to Car Talk on PBS.