Pit Bull Rear Stand Problem......

[bandicoot]

My Bike leans to the right when I have it up on the stand. Does anyone else have this problem? It doesn't scare me that it will fall off, but I really don't like it anyway.

[Smoke Eater]

Are you using the bobbins or right on the swing arm?

[bandicoot]

I am using Bobbins. It is a noticable lean, but I have moved the bike around with no problems. I went to the local shop and tried a different stand. I had the same problem with the other stand. I know it is the bike, because my R6 and my Roommates TLR both sit straight on my stand.

[chrman]

Mine has a very slight lean to the right which I barely notice from time to time. Never really thought much about it. I thought maybe the stand is slightly off.

Doesn't bug me much.

[Smoke Eater]

All of my bikes lean a little on rear stands.

[chrman]

You mean all 2 of them?

[mysubaruimp]

Mine doesnt lean at all on my pitbull.

Maybe someone at the factory was drunk when they installed your spools.

[bandicoot]

That is kind of what I thought:rolleyes:

[Millepede]

If your stand is straight (and it sounds like it is because other bikes sit on it straight), then it must be your bike. Here's a silly question for you. Are you using the same spools on both sides? If you have spools with different diameters it'll make the bike lean. Or are the brackets on the stand sitting in the middle of the slot in the spools? FWIW, my Mille sits straight on my Pit Bull.

Steffen

[irdave]

Ditto. Mine's straight on my PitBull...

[hank]

Originally posted by irdave
Ditto. Mine's straight on my PitBull...

:plus:

[Smoke Eater]

You mean all 2 of them?

I only list the ones that count here....the Aprilias. I have way too many bikes at the moment but I can't seem to part with any.

The good news is that there are too many for the wife to keep track of.

[bandicoot]

Originally posted by Millepede
If your stand is straight (and it sounds like it is because other bikes sit on it straight), then it must be your bike. Here's a silly question for you. Are you using the same spools on both sides? If you have spools with different diameters it'll make the bike lean. Or are the brackets on the stand sitting in the middle of the slot in the spools? FWIW, my Mille sits straight on my Pit Bull.

Steffen

Yeah, My spools are the same size on both sides. I have been thinking of putting different size spools on the bike, so the bike will even out. I can't see any other problem. It was probably just drilled a little off.

[apriliamaster]

Wow, all this time I was thinking that I was seeing things. My bike also leans a little to the right. Maybe our stands were made on a monday morning or on a late friday afternoon.

[chrman]

Originally posted by Smoke Eater
I only list the ones that count here....the Aprilias. I have way too many bikes at the moment but I can't seem to part with any.

The good news is that there are too many for the wife to keep track of.

Well, let's see the whole list!!...

There's someone on here, one of the Brits I think, that lists about 16 dozen bikes in his salutation. I would like to get just one more, let alone build up the stables some of you maniacs have!!

[Bill in OKC]

I always thought my bike was straight on the pit bull stand, but after reading this I looked a little closer. I had my bike up last night and it does look like it leans just a bit to the right. I've successfully installed 57mm TBs, the edwards intake runners, new chip, and have one disk converted over to floating buttons - one disk left to go and a TB synch and I'll be done screwing around for a while.

[Smoke Eater]

Ha!....There's no such thing as being done screwing around with it.

[chrman]

You got that right, Smoke!!!

[lunchbox]

mine leans to the right as well, has since the day i bought it.

[bandicoot]

Must be the design of the swingarm

[X-CBR MAN]

Mine leans allso. Just figured it was the beer:)