Hey y'all. I'm looking to purchase a set of front and rear stands, but I'm totally lost as to which ones to get. Any suggestions? Price, quality? TIA.

 

Work stand.

http://www.worksstand.com i believe is the site. Great stands. Very strong, lightweight.

for a long time, they built stands for Factory Yamaha team. One of the owners of company used to race for Yamaha.

i think the prices are $150 for each.

 

Pit Bull, IMO, is the best quality wise. A lot better than the LP stand I have. Price isn't nearly as nice as the workstands or handistands are, though.

 

$150 for each stand? Ugh that's too much.

 

I have lockhart phillips stands, I dont think i can buy the 929 shims for the uneven swingarm. The front one is ok, but it hits the upper and fender if you arent careful. I scratched my front fender with the damn front end stand.

The front stand i got was the steering stem type as apposed to the fork type in case i ever have to remove the forks or anything.

Steven

 

Handy Stands, front AND rear stand for $116 shipped.

http://www.HandyIndustries.com

 

pitbull stands are definetely very high quality. You could have a rodeo on the bike and the thing wouldn't even wobble. The handy stand set is definetely worth every penny of $112 (shipped to me). I can bend the front stand by hand to fit bikes so its no made for anything but holding the bike and only the bike up. The rear is suprisingly solid. Course if you had something fat like a busa...

 

The guy I bought my bike from (2000 ZX-12R) gave me a Suzuki rear stand. It's really solid and I liked it alot. When I was polishing the lips on my wheels I needed a front stand to remove the front wheel to make it easier. All the places in town had Pit Bull stands which are awesome pieces, but also $140 a piece. So I looked at the Handy Stands and it was $70ish for one, or $99 for both. $116 shipped. So I got the Handy stands and sold the Suzuki stand.

I noticed the rear stand is pretty solid, but the front stand let the bike wobble a bit. Nothing bad, but when you gotta remove and re-torque the front axle bolt at 94ft-lbs... It held well, but I still didn't like how it moved around, especially without a front wheel on it and the fork tubes weren't connected.

My friend's dad is making him some stands and used my stands to mock them up. I'm having him weld a couple braces on the front to help a lil bit.

I'd still recommend them for the price alone. $140 for a single pitbull, or $116 for front and rear Handys.

 

Dayam. Those Works Stands are beaucoup bucks. Hmmm...$100 for the HandyStands or $300 for the Works Stands...

Matt - is your friend's dad planning on making more of these stands?

Thanks, everyone, for your input! I knew you guys had lots of info to share.

 

But I believe there is a reason why the worksstands are a little pricey. If I remember correct, the workstands come with an "insurance" policy. I don't know/remember if they still have it, or if they had it at all, but when it was brought up to me a few years ago, my friend who sold me on spending the money mentioned that if for some reason the stand were to fail (break) and your bike was damaged, they would cover up to so much money to repair the bike.

Don't quote me on that...like I said, this was a few years ago, but I could have sworn that was one reason on price.

 

I would have to go with http://www.handyindustries.com $114 shipped to my door, you can't beat it.

 

I LOVE the Pitbull stands. Borrowed a pair from the head mechanic at a shop here and bought a set as soon as I returned them to him.

 

with the handyindustries stands, whats the difference between rubber pads and bobbin supports?

 

Funny you should ask, because I posed the same question to Handy Industries. Here is their reply:

"Thank you for your interest. In the information we have it sounds like you
would require the Rubber pads for the rear stand. I don't believe your bike
is equipped with spools or bobbins on the rear swing arm which would require
the bobbin supports. The rubber pads lift the bike from under the rear swing
arm."

I'm assuming the "bobbin supports" are if you have "spools" on your swingarm. No idea what spools are (I'm imagining sewing while riding...)

HTH

 

here's what the spool (or bobbin support) looks like:

you can install the LP 8mm spools and use the bobbin support stands or, just buy the rubber support pads if you dont feel like drilling into your swing arm to install the spools. Some bikes come ready for the spools to be installed whereas on other bikes you will have to drill... hope this helps..

 

I just got some LP stands cuz they're cheap at my work.