Surefoot stands

[Jon_P]

how and where does this mount? i am not the smartest bald ape but i dont see how or where this mounts. there are two mounting holes? one with a strange nut and bolt and the other with a what i am guessing is a longer lower engine mountng bolt. so i put this on the front lower engine mount with the new supplied longer bolt, what is this other one then for? if it was just the one bolt i would think it would maybe be able to move?

another thing i found out. if i use the front lower engine mount when folded up i wont be able to get my foot under the shifter so it looks like i am going to mount it at the rear mount like thang did.

i should say that my frame is a late 78 so they call it a 79. i should go get some pixs for everyone to look and see what i am talking about.

[NC Steve]

From my limited recollection at the moment, I believe these things do attach to the rear motor mount, where an exhaust hanger is also, putting the stand mid-ship.
Any Brown-sidestand-riding-R65ers out there have any pics and/or practical advice? :-?

After all the hassle involved in locating these things, the d*mn thing oughta install itself!


PS: Still at work, but curious and found this pic. Does it tell us anything?

[Jon_P]

thanks steve that now makes sense as to what needs to be done. the extra hole i didnt know what it was for is for the exhaust hanger to bolt on to so it doesnt get messed up with the side stand mounting. now its clear.

 it is easy enough, i used a floor jack with the bike on the center stand so when i switched out the longer mount bolt i could put a little upward tension on the engine so it was easy to get that bolt in and out. if that made sense.

[NC Steve]

Jon, glad to hear that that pic answered the question. I hoped it might.
Kinda keeps me from probably asking the same thing when my stand starts going on...

[Jon_P]

thats ok i dont mind looking like the village idiot  

it gets bad when i start answering myself, then i have to ask the doc to up my meds and give me another dose of fuel.

[NC Steve]

A formidable chunk of chromed steel.
Cool. Finally.
I hope I won't need to utter the words 'side' and 'stand' in conjunction ever again.

[Jon_P]

steve you gets your mounted yet?

i did, but now i have to play with my custom exhaust, but thats easy.

[NC Steve]

Yep, got 'er all installed, and it was a snap. I think John's right, it was a great investment!  [smiley=thumbup.gif]
I don't have any exhaust issues, but do have some minor ones with clearance for my Reynolds Ride-off center stand. Nothing I can't adjust to, I was just using it almost exclusively and now need to jiggle a toe to get them both back into the same area. No biggie.

BTW, I see our "connection" has joined the ranks here, but is laying low for now...

[Jon_P]

well its good he did, then it not as hard to find him when others need to get these pimp side stands.

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Hmmm, got to go check the recent joiners...  8-)

[suecanada]

Well...guess what...I just returned from my 2 week plus 2 day trip to the BMWRA and Kickstand Lodge visit in the Great Smokies, NC and I bought a Brown sidestand from Matt of Boxerworks for the full $149.00. I was so excited to find one I could not resist it. So I have lugged it home as a present for LRB! I was getting pretty tired of LRB's inability to deploy the original sidestand on any surface that wasn't level or cambered away from the bike...the orig. sidestand you see makes LRB stand up too straight!  So I hope all will be well now when I get this Brown's stand on.  I really had problems when off on the side of the road and wanted to put the old stand down...it just dug into the gravel and I couldn't use it without a huge, scary lean to the right which I wasn't prepared to do.  So thanks so much for the mounting pics...Matt told me about it but my brain was fried from heat.  Sorry I didn't go to the Airheads rally instead. The RA at the Biltmore was OK but where they had us camp was sandy and hot and the showers and toilets and garbage cans were wholly inadequate for the 3009 attendees! The 8,000 acres of the Biltmore Estate are mostly covered with trees...all except the field they planted us in!

I hear the MOA fairgrounds site this year has NO TREES whatsoever! Yuck..I hate heat like that! I get testy!

[suecanada]

Help!  Please describe exactly what 2 mounting spots for the Brown stand on my R65LS. I have the exhaust hangar/engine mount bolt figured but there isn't a second place for the other hole that I can see! My new Brown stand has one empty mounting hole and one with a bolt/nut on it.

What I am missing also is I have NO longer engine mounting bolt supplied from Matt. Is it essential?  Maybe the R65LS frame is different.  At a loss here!

[Jon_P]

can you post a pix sue? lets wee what you have going on.

[Justin B.]

Sue,

I have never had to use the longer rear engine mount bolt (included from some sellers), and the one I bought from Matt didn't come with one either.  You should just be able to back the r/h nut off a bit and get enough "slack" to mount the Brown (rear-most hole) to the left side rear engine mount.  The front hole is the attachment point for the exhaust hanger (using the included hardware) once you detach it from the rear engine mount...

The image posted earlier, by Steve, pretty much shows it all...

[SCJJR65]

From what I can remember, the picture instructions that came with the Brown's stand were not very clear at all.  It wasn't clear that I was supposed to use the clamp for the exhaust as part of the points for securing the stand, with the other being the frame.  I think I put it on wrong at first, looked at it and said to myself, "That can't be right!"   :-/
I finally figured it out after about an hour....