Rear suspension: removing one side at a time:

Dellortoman said:
Should be stable enough to work on. Probably more stable with the stand chocked than not, if it's a bit too short to have the full weight of the bike on it when not chocked. But here's a tip for the uninitiated:

When undoing or doing up large or tight nuts or bolts on a bike that's on its centre stand, don't have the spanner in such an orientation that the force on the handle is towards the front of the bike, otherwise you could push the bike off the stand. It may seem blindingly obvious, but I did once see a bloke do exactly that when doing up his rear axle nuts (no, it wasn't me).  If you need to apply spanner force in that direction, use your other hand to apply a counter force.
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I came.close to this calamity  :o
 
So just to close this one off, I swapped in the shorter eyelets for the Gazi using a block of wood u see the centre stand and with the help of a ratchet tie I was able to change them one at a time.

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Now the bike sits securely on its centre stand. Job done.

cbertozz said:
Thanks, so because the centrestand is not attached to the swingarm the rear is essentially suspended from the frame, seems so obvious. Might loosen any nuts before putting it up as I can't imagine it will be very stable.
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cbertozz said:
So just to close this one off, I swapped in the shorter eyelets for the Gazi using a block of wood u see the centre stand and with the help of a ratchet tie I was able to change them one at a time.

Now the bike sits securely on its centre stand. Job done.
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Well done I just swapped out the shocks on the Cico, finally got around to replacing the Marzocchi's..........oh and just for Tom spent an hour getting both exhausts level and evenly spaced from the centre line  :D he did mark me down on last audit for that... as one pipe was 1/2 inch lower than the tother. He is a very hard marker out Tommy is.
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