Why don't you increase the weight of the back of the bike? just take a
couple of sand bags and put them as saddle bags and might just do it.
J.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:59 PM, surfswab <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Has anyone worked out a homegrown way to keep the front wheel of a
> bike in the air when wheel's off for service?
>
> I have a 95 NH 750 with a centerstand.  Weight is pivoted toward the
> front, so when the centerstand is down, it raises the back wheel off
> the ground a couple inches.  I'm looking for a way to counter the
> pivot to put the back wheel on the ground, front wheel in the air, for
> a couple days while I work on the axle and have a new tire mounted.
>
> Thought maybe I could get a bottle jack under the frame at some point
> ahead of the centerstand, but the pipes are in the way, and too close
> together to get much of anything under there.  Bike will be parked
> outside on a patch of concrete at my workplace while the wrenching's
> in progress.
>
> Any ideas?
> >
>

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