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Having brought and sussed an easy(ish) way of fitting the spring I am now wondering how long I can bare to look at it? Bike has a 4 into 1 so the bit of stand that you put your foot on when using stand is very prominent. I may just pop the stand on and off as required but was wondering if anyone has cut off the part of the stand that sticks out? I’m thinking if I did it may make it difficult to put foot on it when putting bike up on stand?

yes it will make it extremely difficult to put it on the stand & you could end up having an injury or even drop the bike

Yes, thanks for putting me straight about it. Dumb thought wasn’t it.

Why not leave centre stand off and buy a paddock stand ?

Is the 4-1 an Alfa 41? if not use the side stand and look at it from the RHS

Or get a 4-2 or 4-4 and the whole side will look better

Get a Z1R stand, the foot bit is a lot smaller, less obtrusive and only a little less than useless

KeithZ1R wrote:Get a Z1R stand, the foot bit is a lot smaller, less obtrusive and only a little less than useless

Thats funny.

They do look ugly.

I’ve thought about cutting the arm off and welding it to the other side of the stand to fit around the 4 into one, or making a socket to fit a detachable arm into.

I’ve never got around to it though. What I usually do is take the stand off and temporarily refit it without the spring if I need to work on the bike. I’ll refit the stand and spring if I’m going touring or something like that.

Must be simple to spring load hinge it so its out the way when its up and can be folded out when wanted.