figured I'd share this stand/lift I devised for taking the front end apart on my 14.
All it does is lifts the front wheel as long as the rear is strapped down using the bracket that is usually used for the center stand or the fairing infront of the rear wheel. I took a scissors jack from a car, welded it to a large plate of steel, then fabbed a bracket to fit the mounting ears on the bike which was also welded to the jack. A couple grade 8 1/4" bolts slide through the holes and screw back into the threaded bracket. I would never use this jack for anything but static work. Getting on the bike or moving it around any more than necessary is not advised. It's just a temporary alternative to get the weight off the front wheel so tires can be changed or forks can be serviced. I would think the mount would be plenty robust since this is actually what it's meant for, however the flatness of the jack and it's tendency to want to tip over regardless of the steel plate it's mounted to does not make me 100% confident in it's strength in design for storage or any thing more than what I've listed as uses.


Don't let Bob Marlay put you in a trance! :)

GOOD JOB THERE Edge but Hell's Bells mate do ya know LOL 1" of 1/4" fillet weld holds 1 imperial tone ! not having a go at ya cobbar but theirs enough weld on the center jack for a truck ! better to be safe than sorry

LOL, bean, he wanted to make sure his bike didn't come down due to a weld failure. So he could have tacked it on all four corners and been done with it, whats the fun in that?

G'DAY privateer it's 1.15pm now in South OZ YA know im still on I've taken some new photos of things im doing for the last week,ie THIS forum,Garage cleaning,plus for the first time in 25 years got my small shed sorted out since I met Nadene in 85 when the three kids through the stones infront of my CBX750f JUST BROWSING AROUND AT THE TOPICS BORED while I'm waiting for my first X-RAY since the Bonegraft Opp (24th feb)one week today, it's really Sunny now here and im bored just killing time LOL also when I started my trade as a Boilermaker welder 1n 79 They taught us Apprentists about the weld strenght only 250 grade back then with mild stick steel welding @ 1 inch long by quarter of an inch fillet weld in 1979 can hold one ton! and now the standered steel grade is 350 now and with a mig welder it has more hytensile strenght to cope with the new 350 grade steel in my trade !

Cool, bean! My nephew is 20 now, he took up welding two years ago and must be a natural. He worked at a shop making instrument boxes for some government contract, doing all sorts of fine TIG.

Now he works at one of world's best crane manufacturers, Manitowoc, and welds MIG on the boom bases. All his welds get ultrasound imaged, and the steel is very heavy gauge and high carbon. He is one of the few there who hold a DIN 3 rating, allowing him to weld on the most critical parts.

I told my sister 5 years ago that Phil, my nephew, wasn't college material, but could still possibly pick a trade and make a good life for himself. He's doing it, although at 20 he is still a little bit stupid.

Yeah, I have a tendency to over do it when I weld. I've had formal training but never went for certification since it was never necessary for my jobs. Now I pretty much do it for fun. I love working with steel. I built this buggy and I bet a quarter of it's weight is welds. lol Built the trailer it's on too!


I have a 120V miller Mig I bought new and this old Lincoln Tig I got for $100 bucks! There's a Thunderbolt stick welder lurking around somewhere as well but I never find a use for it anymore.

I've had thoughts about getting more training and going into a career of welding but I don't know anyone in my area making much money doing it...I do love arcin' and sparkin' though!

Damn, I wanna come hang out at your house!!! Nice work man!!

You can come hang out anytime, I'm a terrible host though, 'cause I'm always busy doing something. Good thing the wife can entertain herself because she'd go nutz waiting for me to be done..lol

HEY edgecrusher good onya mate it's nice to see ya projects ya tackel mate their's nothing wrong with a bit of doing more than less mate I USED TO DO A LOT MORE STUFF when I was in my 20's-30's I never let anyone touch my bikes an cars now I don't mind paying for it, When I last worked for as long as I can remember WAS 60 + HOURS AT WORK ALL TIME SO "OUR Hobbies" was to much like my work, designing the jigs for our "Mobile Drilling Rigs" and fab/welding overhead cranes etc. I,ve always said im a sick puppy as I injoy or did injoy going to work (the back long way) he he

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the rear is strapped down using the bracket that is usually used for the center stand or the fairing infront of the rear wheel.

Cool idea. I admire your sense of cheapness. Tethering the bike down by the belly fairing framework seems like a risky option though.

Tethering the bike down by the belly fairing framework seems like a risky option though

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. The rear end is ratchet strapped to anchor points I put on my lift just behind the wheel on both sides. They loop around the lower subframe bar right where it is exposed at the front of the tail fairings. This pins the rear wheel in the Pingle chock, which I found out doesn't fit like it did on my old GSXR, and makes the axle a pivot point for when you jack it up. I try to only keep weight on the jack while I'm removing the wheel and then put the axle back through and set it on a jack stand like in the pic. It sat like this for the last few weeks and never wobbled or nothin.

Got my wheel put back on BTW only to find out I need new brake pads! Bought some Vesrah HH's. 140 bucks (ouch)

All it does is lifts the front wheel as long as the rear is strapped down using the bracket that is usually used for the center stand or the fairing infront of the rear wheel.

My mistake. "The fairing in front of the rear wheel" sounds like you were talking about the belly pan fairing.

Um yes, I was. hehe. Rook, you and I haven't been communicating very well, but I'm sure it's prolly on my end. I've been cutting my calories trying to get in shape before getting back on the bike this summer and I've been a little loopy. I feel like a blonde somedays.