Hitchcocks Forum

I recently bought a rear paddock stand for my 2005 Sixty 5 trials but there doesn't seem to be any way of locating it on the bike. It doesn't have the reach to get to the tubes of the swing arm, and the rear brake rod obstructs access on the left anyway. The only other possibility is lower mountings of the shocks, these however are too high to allow the rear tyre to be lifted clear of the ground. Am I missing something or am I going to have to try to modify the stand ?
Many thanks.

when I used a paddock stand on my old bullet , I wielded to small tubes (nuts actually) under the swinging arm legs (half way) and changed the sliding "u" clamps on the stand for steel rods (with a washer wielded on the end)

Thanks Alan. Modification it is then.

I got a couple of nuts and rounded most of the edges so it was like a tube but with a flat on it (better contact for wield , then found a piece of bar a couple of foot long , and with the rear wheel off placed the bar across (under) the s/arm and slid the modded nuts on , at a point that missed my exaust etc , tack wielded , then cut bar in 1/2 and wielded a couple of big washers to stop the rods going in to touch the spokes

That's welded, not wielded, Allan!

And that's Alan, not Allan, Ray. (Oops!)

Ray.

if I want to wield a mig torch I will ,, you try to stop me!