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Cruiser
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guelph ontario | Has anyone put the new center stand on their Vision-does it work well. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 146
| I'm wonderin that too?? |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 721
| I put one on my Vision a couple of weeks ago and it works great! One thing to keep in mind is that this really should be called a ride off center stand as the rear tire remains in contact with the ground when on the stand and those that have been around Honda Goldwings for awhile will recognize this because a ride off center stand has been available in the Goldwing aftermarket for a while. If you need to raise the rear tire off the ground all you need to do is put a piece of 1 x 4 under the stand to give it that little extra height. |
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Cruiser
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Houston, TX | Good to know. Thanks! |
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Puddle Jumper
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Attleboro, MA | so it will work with a block under it so something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N2KdXHejMM will work
How does it fit & look |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 721
| Dennis, check out my gallery, not the greatest of pictures, but you can see a little bit of the stand in one of my new paint pictures.
FYI, I've taken ALL the air out of the rear suspension and the rear tire is still in contact with the ground, with normal riding pressure (50-65 psi for me) in the rear suspension the bike has a little bit of a not so solid feeling side to side but it definitely would take a very forceful deliberate act to get the bike to tip sideways off the stand. |
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | Check out Songfan's review of the center stand:
http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4932&pos... |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1158
Richmond, Virginia | kinda funny my mother in law asked what accessories i wanted for my Vision. Since there isnt much left, she thought it would be
good to call my dealership since they knew me and knew what I had on the bike, and asked them what they thought i would want.
I just turned 49 last week, so they suggested "why dont you get him one of the old man center stands for his bike"........ LOL I wasnt aware that a center stand was indicative of old age.... they laughed and thought it was funny,,,,,,,,,,,,, I said NO. |
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Iron Butt
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, FL United States | I have one that I bought from a member of theVMC King Bagger. I have not installed it yet but will post my thoughts of it once it is on later this week.
I really hope his is better than the Victory unit SongFan had his nightmare of an experience with. |
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Visionary
Posts: 1484
LaPorte,Tx. | I'm curious as to the $s Victory put into the design of this accessory? I hope it is not the mentality of just make it they will buy it!! |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 849
, FL United States | Installed the "King Stand" today. Perfect fit and it works great. I can't see how you could "drag" any of Neal's center stand. The "step-on" tang rides up high under the left rear tip-over and the legs are completely hidden under the bike. The only thing I would caution riders about is - go slowly over "speed bumps (mountains)" , as you COULD possibly drag part of it that way.
No pics yet, sorry. CHL
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Iron Butt
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, FL United States | bump |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 721
| Pictures of the King stand would be appreciated! If it is more effective I just might take the hit to the wallet and change from the Victory stand to the the King stand. |
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Visionary
Posts: 3204
Memphis | Is the "King Stand" a ride-off or is the back tire off the ground? |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 849
, FL United States | SongFan - 2009-12-20 11:21 AM
Is the "King Stand" a ride-off or is the back tire off the ground?
It's a "ride-off" type. Will try to get some pics posted soon. |
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New user
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| Where can you purchase a King Stand ? |
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Puddle Jumper
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Big Sky | I have some photos of the King Stand but can't download then on this site. My computer hates me! Check them out on this one. http://forums.thevmc.com/bb/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=129 Hope that helps. King Bagger. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 154
| Where do you buy the stand??? Could you send pics to shane6727@gmail.com
Thanks
Shane |
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Puddle Jumper
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Big Sky | Here is a link for them. http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=5053&pos... |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 849
, FL United States | pics of King Bagger's center stand
Edited by CoolHandLuke 2010-01-11 1:42 PM
(Vision Center Stand 1.JPG)
(Vision Center Stand 2.JPG)
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 Vision Center Stand 1.JPG (60KB - 10 downloads)
Vision Center Stand 2.JPG (61KB - 5 downloads)
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Tourer
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Northeastern Penna. | I understand from the earlier post on the King stand, that it is rather easy to lift the bike up onto the stand. Is this true ? How much higher does the bike have to go up to raise the rear tire off the ground ? Can you place a board under the center of the bike so that center stand will go up on the board, raising the bike higher ? |
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Iron Butt
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, FL United States | Sorry, I can't answer your ?'s ,as I haven't tried anything other than stand it up. |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 27
Big Sky | wjoel - 2010-01-11 2:39 PM
I understand from the earlier post on the King stand, that it is rather easy to lift the bike up onto the stand. Is this true ? How much higher does the bike have to go up to raise the rear tire off the ground ? Can you place a board under the center of the bike so that center stand will go up on the board, raising the bike higher ?
Yes it will if you have a board under the stand. You only need about 3/4". Rember the higher the stand the harder it is to lift so you mite have to have one under the stand and one under the tire, then take the rear board out to make it work. The Vision's rear suspension is to soft. Neal. |
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Cruiser
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Columbia, TN United States | Sounds like something that may work. Please keep us up to date. |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 9
| Hello Travelin Man
Could you clarify if this is the Polaris stand; the discussion that followed your post went on to discuss a King stand? Either way, I assume you have no clearance issues.
Thanks
Edited by welo 2010-06-04 1:19 PM
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 9
| Ignore my previous post; I see that Travelin Man has the Polaris stand.
I would be interested though in hearing if anyone has experience with a Park-n-move. I have one that works with my ST1300 and would entertain buying the center stand for the Vision if they worked together.
Edited by welo 2010-06-04 2:02 PM
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Iron Butt
Posts: 721
| For those here that are interested, I did have clearance issues when doing very tight left turns.
That said, I had my dealer remove my stand and even got Victory to give a full credit for it because the stand was with weakest piece of crap I have ever seen. After one of my first rides this spring I went to put the Vision up on the center stand and as it came up over center the stand twisted and it took all my strength to hold the bike from falling over to the right side. Victory apparently thought it was defective so they were crediting my dealer with the purchase price and I told my dealer to keep the stand and just use the credit to cover the cost of removing the bent one from my bike (4 hours of labor).
I have since gone back to using my Condor front wheel chock to park the bike vertical when I need to have it vertical to do maintenance on the ground, for other maintenance I have a full table lift with a wheel vise that I use to raise it up to a comfortable working height. |
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Visionary
Posts: 3773
Pittsburgh, PA | is there anyone out there that liked the stock victory center stand? sounds to me like they Dropped the ball on this one.. designed it withOut testing it...
remember when they designed the cup holder and the pieces DIDNT fit each other.. LOL did anyone even bother tryin to assemble one at the factory.. LOL took months and months for them to resolve that mistake |
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