looks very scary to me

 

Sweet!!!

 

It's S-O-L-I-D. Zero play. It's as if it was designed by an Amish German team that were handed wood, lag bolts, liquid nail, and 16 gauge angle iron. The footprint is larger in width and depth than the motorcycle jack itself (jack platform). In testing, the bike rocked back and forth on it's frame while the stand remained planted on the floor. It would take just as much force to tip it off this stand as the jiffy stand. I dig it. Modification I'm going to make is belt sand (carve out) a bit off the top inside right plank and re-paint. The shocks slightly kiss the top. Not enough to make an indentation in the wood or shock (as if it's bearing weight), but enough where I don't want to chance it either.

If it didn't work out, plan b was to convert it to the coolest garage sitting bench in the neighborhood.

 

ok i feel better now thanks for the nice wright up nice bike bye the way ride safe

 

Your bike is WAY under the structural limit of the stand you built. You could park a Cadillac on that thing. Nice work. You should sell those things.

 

Good to know. No time for sales these days, but feel free to hack away. I was going to pick up a "Pepsx", but thought I could build something cheaper. So there is a guy out there selling something like it, but fabricated out of metal. I don't have that skill set, so I went the wood route. Cost to fabricate was approximately $70 and a few hours of my time. $160 (?) for the Pepsx, but I'm not sure of it's dimensions. I measured the belly of the FLSS and my jack and worked around that.

 

Took a belt sander to the inside edges and worked shallow as I went to the outside. It looks deeper than it is. First inch inward was a deep cut, but I only shaved off about a 1/16th of an inch from there. I knocked a little bit off the top inside cross bar in order to let the jack fall a bit deeper as it swings forward and down when dropping as well.

If you opt to build your own, maybe consider a 2" 16 gauge iron top cross bar to replace the 2 x 2 wood piece. It would enable the jack to drop down and out deeper. In order for the bike to fit square (left/right) as I face the bike, I require setting the bike down on the stand, readjusting the jack back on the frame, jack it up again, adjust the stand, and set it back down. It's an inch or two off of center if I just drop and go. Not a show stopper. But for the **** such as myself, if I take an extra 30 seconds I can square it up. A person can do the same with fore and aft adjustments if required. A scissor jack would complement this stand nicely.

In shaving off approximately 1/16th of an inch, the shocks no longer rest on top of the wood. But again, they never supported any of the weight as far as I could tell. Taking a belt sander to the top and back pieces of wood is not a must to make it happen.

Done. It will fit my needs for oil changing and winter storage.

On a side note, I learned that the center of gravity on the FLSS is where the jiffy stand protrudes from the bottom of the bike when retracted. It's a good place to start when tossing a jack underneath. See attachment.

 

Sounds great and the tuning looks like it bumped the torque up on the Dyno. I can certainly feel it!




V&H ProPipe

 

Added the siren and pager to my security system.