Originally Posted by Jimmytee
Is that with your MC jack, or with the table lift you bought today after you installed your BP and couldn't figure out how to get the bike up?
Is that with your MC jack, or with the table lift you bought today after you installed your BP and couldn't figure out how to get the bike up?
Uh, excuse me, but when I wrote that it was in reference to my Valkyrie.Is that with your MC jack, or with the table lift you bought today after you installed your BP and couldn't figure out how to get the bike up?
If ya paid attention, I had not lifted the F6B as of yet when that was written. I did not have the belly pan yet. And yes it would still just take me that amount of time to lift the F6B as well. Did it today. I've been eyeballing the table lifts for quite some time. A couple of years in fact. It was actually my wife's idea to go ahead and go get one.
The reason for the table lift has more to do with my Valkyrie than the F6B. I have to do some maintenance on the Slave cylinder for the clutch. To pull the slave cylinder, one has to remove the side stand and therefore the Lift/jack adaptor. The bracket is in the way . That means the bike needs to be supported upright some other way while I do the work. Now I could have rigged some lumber and some straps. I could have just bought a wheel chock and secured it , but with the wife saying "lets' go ahead and get the lift table", well do I really need to say more.
Oh, I figured how to lift the F6B with the belly pan, but the jack will see much less use now obviously.
I have about 3K miles on my black bellypan and haven't scraped yet, but the roads around here are mostly flat and straight. Will be in the Ozarks this weekend so that will be the real test. I did ride in the TX Hill Country before I installed the bellypan and didn't scrape anything there either, but my buddy who was behind me did say it looked like I was about to touch down a few times.
Anyway, the bellypan is cheap insurance as far as I'm concerned and even if it scrapes a bit it won't be an issue for me. I have not noticed any additional heat with the belly pan on. However, the F6B is so much cooler running than my previous bikes (Harley and Victory) that I probably wouldn't notice the heat anyway.
Gonna take the high road on that one,,, (clickclick)
Moving forward,,,
X,,, I'm not an aggressive driver, but both 'folds' on my BP were scratched from front to rear. Couple dings,,,
(Wifey's cover was fine, but she rides like Gramma)
Took both off. That was probaly 5k ago... As I have an excellent vantage point when changing oil, it's easy to see if anything has been scratched.
Nada.Perhaps the pan hangs a fraction of an inch lower than I need for my 'old man' cornering,,,
Each pan that I removed did have a nice burn mark on it from the pipe on one side,,, Quite a bit of localized heat 'in the general area' of the pan.
Good data point. Will have to look for that during oil changes and any other time the pan gets dropped.
Thanks.
Steve
Questions for you guys that have raised your rear suspension setting: did it change the riding smoothness very much? And, did it make a big difference with the scraping?
No discernable difference in smoothness. An improvement in clearance but not a BIG difference.
Ken (Hornblower)
No belly scraping here but I'm allways dragging pegs on my F6B sport bike ... LOL I actually picked up a extra set of pegs and going to drill and tap some titanium scags to the bottom for a night show .
Don't know which "scags" you're considering but here are the titanium pucks that several of us are currently using:
http://www.pepsx.com/products.html
I was originally tipped off on these by Big Dawg and they are outstanding
Ken (Hornblower)
So...I just opened my shop manual to the rear suspension chapter 17. What a crappy chapter! I cannot figure out how to raise the rear suspension. Is it a manual adjustment or some sort of automated one?
Could somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks!!
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