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Started by ducatiz, August 02, 2011, 07:46:44 PM

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ducatiz

August 02, 2011, 07:46:44 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-FRONT-TRIPLE-TREE-MOTORCYCLE-CENTER-LIFT-RACE-STAND-/180700412462

Found this on ebay.

I bought one.

I luv it.

Price includes shipping. 

It works perfectly.

No connection with the seller

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Meerkat

#1
August 02, 2011, 07:51:45 PM
How does this attach to triple? Looks like pin is in wrong direction to fit into the hole that the pitbull ones fit into. How sturdy is it once it's up on the stand?
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ducatiz

#2
August 02, 2011, 08:01:06 PM
Quote from: Ducatician on August 02, 2011, 07:51:45 PM
How does this attach to triple? Looks like pin is in wrong direction to fit into the hole that the pitbull ones fit into. How sturdy is it once it's up on the stand?

the pin goes into the bottom of the stem, same as the pitbull.  the photo does not show it with the pin installed.

it is very sturdy

you can't use it without a rear stand though.  all it does it lever up the front by the triple.

it comes with 4 different attachements so you can use it as a rear stand (spools or dss) and as a fixed or a moving triple lift.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Meerkat

#3
August 02, 2011, 08:16:01 PM
Cool. I don't need another rear stand, but I've been thinking about picking up a triple tree front stand for a while. Good news is it looks like these guys have multiples of these so I don't have to make an immediate decision.
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ducatiz

#4
August 02, 2011, 08:37:43 PM
No idea how many they have, they are a camera film seller!

$54 bucks, no shipping.. you can't beat it!  Shipping alone on the Pit Bull or similar is $25-35

I should buy another, I am always working on something.

I already popped a tire off a rim with that bead breaker.  I don't know why I didn't get one before...
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Meerkat

#5
August 02, 2011, 09:53:01 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 02, 2011, 08:37:43 PM
I already popped a tire off a rim with that bead breaker.  I don't know why I didn't get one before...

Nice! I'll be over for tire changing lessons sometime. ;D And I can ogle your bikes while I'm there. [thumbsup]
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The Bearded Duc

#6
August 03, 2011, 02:55:16 AM
+1 on this stand.

I've had the same one (don't recall if it's from the same seller) for almost 2 years now and I love the thing. It's very sturdy and it comes with multiple diameter pins for use with just about any triple.
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DRKWNG

#7
August 03, 2011, 03:35:04 AM
Odd how the add has the graphic for free shipping, but the text says shipping is $74.95
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

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#8
August 03, 2011, 04:31:49 AM
Quote from: DRKWNG on August 03, 2011, 03:35:04 AM
Odd how the add has the graphic for free shipping, but the text says shipping is $74.95
Free to the lower 48....$74.95 to goofballs that don't know how to change their zipcode from HI. [bang]

;D
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ducatiz

#9
August 03, 2011, 05:01:37 AM
Quote from: Ducatician on August 02, 2011, 09:53:01 PM
Nice! I'll be over for tire changing lessons sometime. ;D And I can ogle your bikes while I'm there. [thumbsup]

sure, i learned all i need to know from youtube!  lemme know when you want to come by.  weekends are better.

i have a front and rear set from a 748 i need to get the old tires off

Change a motorcycle tyre by hand.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Meerkat

#10
August 03, 2011, 05:25:20 AM
That looks pretty damn easy, especially with those stubby tire spoons you posted about. I do have a couple of questions:

What was that stuff he spread on the bead when putting it on?

If I remember correctly, you don't balance your own tires...so do you just take them to the shop and have them balance them before putting them back on the bike?
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ducatiz

#11
August 03, 2011, 06:50:01 AM
Quote from: Ducatician on August 03, 2011, 05:25:20 AM
That looks pretty damn easy, especially with those stubby tire spoons you posted about. I do have a couple of questions:

What was that stuff he spread on the bead when putting it on?
Tire lube.  Murphy's makes it.

QuoteIf I remember correctly, you don't balance your own tires...so do you just take them to the shop and have them balance them before putting them back on the bike?

Yes, but I'm buying a static balance next time I hit HF.  Same one he's using in the video.

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bikepilot

#12
August 03, 2011, 07:52:48 AM
FWIW My balanced TLS wheels (the wheels themselves were unbalanced a bit from the factory - maybe due to the valve core) haven't needed any additional balancing for my last three sets of rubber.  I do run Avons on it all the time and they tend to be very well balanced tires. Had the first set tested on a spin balancer at a dealer and it needed no balance weights.  The next two sets I spooned on myself and didn't check balance, but they were smooth well above speeds monsters are capable of and lasted 20k miles a pair (tires don't wear much in the winter!) so I'd say they were in balance or near enough to it.
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Staggerlee

#13
October 19, 2011, 08:27:57 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 02, 2011, 07:46:44 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-FRONT-TRIPLE-TREE-MOTORCYCLE-CENTER-LIFT-RACE-STAND-/180700412462

Found this on ebay.

I bought one.

I luv it.

Price includes shipping. 

It works perfectly.

No connection with the seller

Sorry to drag this one up from the bottom, but is there some sort of special technique with this stand that perhaps I'm not privy too? 

I am finding that the pin doesn't line up square with the bottom of the stem; I can lift it like this, but the pin never sets inside the stem and the bike will lever itself back down as soon as I take pressure off the stand.



If you hadn't said it works perfectly for you, I would chalk it up to cheap ebay shit; as it is, I find myself questioning my mechanical aptitude.

ducatiz

#14
October 19, 2011, 09:35:25 AM
Mine lines up ok, you have to use the sleeves to match the hole.

I can photograph mine and show how it looked.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.
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