weschmann
Kawa Afterthought
I just wanted to post some feedback on a center stand for any niner riders out there. I have a 18 R 9 Urban GS that I recently added a Wunderlich center stand to. Easy install, good instruction and so forth, but when finished I found I couldn’t get the bike to pop up on the stand as the angle to the ground was not sufficient to get past the apex in the swing curve. I added 22mm of shim under the rear wheel with some plywood and found that it was sufficient to enable a better angle resulting with the bike popping up on the stand. It should be noted that my ‘teacup’ has The standard suspension on her, so the Wunderlich stand should have worked with no issues. Honz at Gateway BMW suggested adjusting the rear shock tighter to decrease sag, and that did work to lift the bike just enough to actually pop her on the center stand but it isn’t very easy but at least it works. So at some point I will disassemble to take to weld shop to ax off 20 mm or so to make using the stand easier. The stand pops the rear tire a full three inches or so off the ground which is overkill in my opinion as I have taken the rear wheel off with about a inch of lift even with getting it out of the wheel well without popping the muffler off. So for what it’s worth, if considering a center stand, understand that some adjustment to the bikes suspension may be required, unless I guess you weigh a whole lot more than my 178 lb frame and upper body strength is much stronger than my puny 68 year old body is