maintenance stand

[kawashima]

I am thinking of buying maintenance stand or centre stand option for TDM900 to lube chain, but is it possible to use maintenance stand alone? I don't have any friend to support my bike and I have to do it alone.
Centre stand is better for alone but it was expensive(34000Yen:￡255).
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own:2020 Serow 250
owned: 2012 YB125SP, 2008 TDM900, 2005 W650, 2002 LS125R, 2002 CB400SF, NS50F, C50 / Trip to UK(2009), Hokkaido touring(2013)

[Flip]

You mean a paddock stand? Yes it's possible but if the bike falls there's no saving it.

[kawashima]

[G]

I'm confident holding bikes up, but I never have a problem just wheeling the bike back a bit. Despite having a paddock stand, I only use it about half the time for chain lubing (if I had a decent bobbins style one I might use it more often, but luke sold mine with his bike ).
Paddock stands are generally useful, but I wouldn't buy one just for that purpose - if I had money to do that, I'd actually buy a proper chain oiler (ie scottoiler or similar) so that i didn't have to manually oil it.

Oh and to answer the actual question - absolutely yet. With a race bike (no sidestand) I would often return to the pits, get off the bike while holding it, work my away around to the back and put it on a paddock stand.
With a side stand it's much easier, because you know it won't fall on one side. What some people do if they're extra-cautios is to put an appropriately sized bit of wood under the side stand first, so it's almost vertical. This means you don't need to hold the bike up as you put the paddock stand under.

[kawashima]

[tutton]

If you wanna spend that bit more and get something more useful buy a abba stand, lifts on the swingarm pivot bolt i think, means you can take the shock out as well as doing other rear end duties, they also sell a little front lift which means you can have all the bike off the ground at once if you needed to take both wheels off for instance.
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Past: '05 Peugeot XPS '99 Aprillia RS125 '94 FZR600R
Current: '02 ZX636 A1P '51 CCM R30

[G]

Too much hassle just to lube your chain though, I'd say.

I was going to make a do-it-yourself electronic chain oiler for my GSXR, but never got around to it. Now I've got some free time and aren't commuting, might try and make it for my KTM instead.

(Scottoiler do do an electronic version, but it's silly-expensive.)

[KLR600]

If you go for a Scottoiler then make sure you get the one with 2 nozzles as there's not much point only oiling 1 side of the chain. I can highly recommend a Scottoiler though, mine has been fault free for over 25,000 miles and I can get longer out of my chain and sprockets on my ZRX1100 than I could on my XJ600.
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Now: '00 Kawasaki ZRX1100R - Past: '84 Yamaha DT125, '89 Kawasaki KLR600, '97 Yamaha XJ600N
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