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I have a almost real bad story. I was late one night in Rockford Ill on my way to the 100 HD party. I was at the dealer party and it was just getting over. I jumped on my 03 SERK and forgot I locked the front disk. Well you guessed it looked like I tweaked the right rotor. Well everything was closing so I ran up to the back of the dealer and told them what happened and that I was leaving early the next day for Milwaukee. They pulled bike in and put it on the lift. Great guys right. Well everyone was tired and a few might have been drinking along with myself. After they took the jack off from under my bike they forgot to vise the front tire down. As the air table started to come down so did my bike. Luckly I was there with my friend and one of the mechanics to catch it and push it back up straight on the lift.
The rest of my 18 day trip flashed right before my eyes.
mine fell over one night. neglected to set the locks. bottle jack DEFINITELY bleeds woke up to a bang. Fortunately just broke a mirror and a grip. got off easy.
I have the heavy duty harbor freight motorcycle jack and it lets the bike down really fast (too fast). I had a dyna on the stand and while I was lowering the bike I stopped it cause it was coming down way fast and half the bike slipped off the stand. Lucky I had the kick stand down... The directions say that it has two settings for the release valve but I haven't found it yet.
My buddy got the aluminum craftsman jack and its really nice. I think it's on sale for $179.00.
Operator error here......Red Larin jack, like the red sears jack. Had the Sporty up on the jack in my rec room working on various items without the bike being strapped down. I walked upstairs to the kitchen, or bathroom, or somewhere, and then heard a medium to loud bang/crash. That's when I got that sinking feeling in my gut thinking "Please don't tell me that is what I think it was"......Ran down stairs & sure enough, I found the Sporty laying on it's side with the wheels slightly higher than the rest of the scoot. Jerked that SOB straight back up to only find the very end of the kickstand bent up a little bit with no other damage to the sporty.
I've had a couple of close calls with the sporty. You have to be careful with a bike on a lift. Mine sometimes will rotate around if I'm trying to tighten a bolt.
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