rear wheel removal

[thgil]

with the guzzis flat rear tyre i now need to remove the wheel,so is it best to buy a paddock stand (and from where in the uk)?I don't fancy the barbaric way of using a block and tackel as i don't reckon the garage roof would take the weight.And using a trolley jack to balance it on would only leave me with a sleepless night.

[Baldini]

Guzzi workshop stand is good. Would've thought Motomecca would stock em near you - at Three Legged Cross, Dorset ( 01202 823 453 ). Or Corsa Italiana or Motorworks.

 

KB

[belfastguzzi]

The bike can also be raised with an ordinary rear paddock stand, or use a trolley jack / scissors jack / bottle jack and support it with axle stands.

 

Lots of options and no need for great expense.

[GuzzBun]

The bike can also be raised with an ordinary rear paddock stand, or use a trolley jack / scissors jack / bottle jack and support it with axle stands.

 

Lots of options and no need for great expense.

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Or if you could manage a really agricultural method... try putting the machine on the sidestand, release all other items so that the wheel is ready for removal, then get your assistant (you do have an assistant, don't you?) to lean the machine even further on the side stand, so that the rear of the bike is lifted, until you can wiggle the rear wheel out - crude, but cheap and effective!

[grossohc]

I posted a couple of weeks ago after also getting a puncture, and got some great advice from the guys on this site, you should look it up Before taking the wheel off. I bought a mg stand from motomecca and its worth the expense if you intend keeping the bike its great for working on the bike (not that i can do much)

[O2 V11]

The bike can also be raised with an ordinary rear paddock stand, or use a trolley jack / scissors jack / bottle jack and support it with axle stands.

 

Lots of options and no need for great expense.

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I'm in the original cheap camp. I haven't got a stand of any description. I use a trolley jack to lift the bike at the front of the sump. I then put my piece of 4"x 4" and a bigger block under the rear of the sump and lower the bike down. The 4"x 4" I have profiled to match the bottom of the sump. After this I also anchor each end of the bars to the rafters with my bike tie downs. To remove the front end I lift at the rear and put my supports at the front of the sump. All this I do myself without any help.

Rob

[Guest Nogbad]

The reason I use the jack / axle stands method is that my conventional paddock stand tends to slip up the swingarm if you have to use any force to shift the axle / wheel etc.

 

Also, the end of the stand gets in the way of the wheel as it comes out, the side of the stand fouls the brake mounting and it doesn't quite give enough height to withdraw the wheel easily.

 

The jack / stand technique was a case of necessity being the mother of invention after the paddock stand slipped and left me with the wheel stuck half in and half out!

 

Good luck, I can usually manage to get it up on the stands singlehanded.

[belfastguzzi]

I bought a mug stand from motomecca and its worth the expense ...

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I still insist that you can get cheaper mug stands that are just as good. Here's a nice v-twin model

[belfastguzzi]

All this I do myself without any help.

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I can usually manage to get it up on the stands singlehanded.

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Glad to hear that the rest of you have no friends either, apart from GuzzBun who has an imaginary friend.

[txrider]

Well, being the cheap sort myself I made a work stand that fits under the bike same as the Guzzi work stand out of some 2 x 6 and 2 x 4 board stock. I used u-bolts to clamp short pipe stub to one side screwed to a 90, and a 4' x 1" pipe for a lifting handle.