How's this work, then?

Bear with me here.

Just got a pair of paddock stands to make things easier with the bike. It's
the first time I have used a front stand, and I can't work out how it should
fit. It's got two triangular brackets on pivots on the upright arms, each
having two pins about 2" apart pointing inwards with nylon sleeves,
presumably to protect the paint on the fork legs. It looks as if the pins
should locate below the fork legs, but whichever way I do it the fork ends
are pretty unstable. I've tried it with one pin below the leg and one in
front, when the bike slides off backwards as it goes over-centre, and with
one below and one behind, when I can just about get it to stay up, but it
looks marginal. I can get it stable if I wiggle one pin from each side into
the end of the axle, but then there isn't enough lift to get the tyre off
the ground. Pinch bolts are fore and aft, so are no help in locating the
pegs.

The only way it will hold the forks up reasonably if I kind of balance the
fork legs with both the pins underneath, but it is not positively located
and looks as if it would slide off easily. The width of the fork leg is
almost exactly the same as the distance between the pegs. I certainly
wouldn't dare to take the wheel out with it in that position.

So, FOAKs, what am I doing wrong?

 

Is he ? You poor bastard

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, YTC#1 typed:

Heh. I was kind of expecting that ...

 

Works for me too.

 

I now have this image of Bjork and Benny holding up a bike amid the
sound of silver spandex tearing.

 

OK, it should be Bjorn and Benny but Bjork would add a funny
lopsidedness to it.

 

MikeH says...

Maybe I should nickname my front paddock stand 'Bjork' because that
makes the front wheel sit lop-sided.

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Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Gavsta typed:

Ah, OK. That's what I thought. I shall have to persevere.

Possibly - it wasn't all that expensive. Now that I know how it *should* be
working, I can possible make some mods to it that will help it to fit the
fork bottoms better.

Shall look at that too. Not keen on putting the weight of the bike on the
exhaust, but I'm sure some arrangement with wood blocks will do the trick.

Thanks for the reply.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Gavsta typed:

I've just been for a look, and the underneath of the Ducati is a bit of an
asymmetric mess of one-sided pipes, oil filters and the like. Could easily
make up a wooden jig to spread the load to the less bendy bits, though.