After buying a paddock stand I discovered you don't need one to adjust the chain because the swing arm should be loose. Did I just waste 100 lids on a paddock stand? And do you lads just use a car jack to lift the bike up for chain adjustment?
Definitely agree there. Can't beat a paddock stand. Basically, all I want to do is chain adjustment and oiling. Yeah, this is my first bike without a main stand. Looked into getting one. Then 5 seconds later I remembered it's a hypermotard, and having a centre stand on it is just plain wrong, even if it's convenient Yeah, it's handy alright. But I live in an apartment, don't have a garage and not having to have a paddock stand would be handy. Just use the car jack for chain adjustment
Because I'm an idiot. Just checked the ducati maintenance manual and it says to do it in the side stand. But when I got the bike I read up on it and it said to do it with the rear wheel off the ground but the swing arm had to swing freely. So, who wants to buy a paddock stand? Unused
Theyre worth their weight in gold. You may not need one this instant but trust me, if you didnt have one there would be an immediate need.
I got a nail in my rear tyre a day after picking the new bike up and had to do an emergency repair in a local bike shop. Needless to say this guy was a lot more confident about his jacking methods than I was!! Fair dos to the repair though, I did nearly 3000 miles around Europe on it before getting new tyres View attachment 35718
I think he'd done that before. Check the mug of tea!!! Or buy one of these. Warrior Motorcycle Wheel Spinner - Demon Tweeks
More to the point you got 3000 miles out of a supercorsa....did you take the bike round Europe in the back of a van...? got 1500 out of mine and the front one was virtually a slick on both sides of the front tyre....
This is the key to getting 3000 miles out of a SuperCorsa around Europe 2000 is probably about normal for me on the Panigale or the R1, although a trackday generally kills them unless they are fairly new.
And you rode with SC's in that!! must have been scary - essentially mine were trashed after a trip to the tt.....put them on last year the day before - did some light summer mileage and then had to change them this year just before the tt.....on m7rr's at the moment but not as nice....
and while we are on this particular subject, what is the accepted method of getting the bike on the rear paddock stand by yourself? Gives me the willies. If it decides to fall to the right, you are doomed. I normally get someone to lend me a hand here, but I bet there's a cool technique.
pfft, thats a mere shower. I rode through the apocalypse a few years ago on SC's nr Bellegarde Fr. The autoroute was a freaking river AND it was rush hour. AND I had a dark visor on. I'd never seen lightning quite like that before, nor rain. I say rain when I mean someone just poured the sea on me from above. All that after 8hrs solid riding from UK. Scarey as fuck.
I had a similar one to that on the Italian motorway north of Bologna. I could really only see the lorries with lights on the top of the trailer, or cars if they were pretty close before the tail lights disappeared in the spray. It was supposedly daytime. Did you say dangerous? After a hundred miles or so (probably rather more) I just couldn't take it any more. Water was literally running down my neck, despite my rain oversuit and leathers. My t-shirt was drenched. In fact, I was completely and entirely drenched apart from my feet (Goretex boots). It was so bad I spent the night in motorway services hotel room which was utterly miserable, trying to dry out my kit with the hairdryer.
