Centrestands on zzr250

I used to scrape everything, side and centre stands, pegs and eventually my exhaust. I'm running with my pre-load on full, I've jacked up the rear by about 50mm(custom link arms) and I've taken off my centre stand ( I have a race stand for servicing). Only my knees scrape now.

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RG he forgot to mention that he did all that scraping by throwing the bike down the road a couple of times.

I scraped the pegs and stands on my GPX, not much to it as they're such a light machine and have pretty average clearance.

On the VTR I've already killed the Michelin Man on my Pilot Powers and haven't scraped anything yet, although they tell me my knee LOOKS like it's touching the ground but apparently not quite!

Getting off the bike really helps, as evidenced by me having to work rather hard to keep up with my girlfriend on a borrowed ZZR250 over the weekend!

Sounds like you are getting into the Honda man. Good to see, treat it with contempt I say....

I used to scrape everything, side and centre stands, pegs and eventually my exhaust. I'm running with my pre-load on full, I've jacked up the rear by about 50mm(custom link arms) and I've taken off my centre stand ( I have a race stand for servicing). Only my knees scrape now.

any chance you can post up some pics/specs of how you modded the arms?

Cheers Adz

Thanks for the replys guys

Actually I've started noticing that it's really frigging dangerous having the centre stand on if you plan on cornering hard up, say, Eagle on the Hill. I was leaning off, and had the bike pulled over a fair way and it seemed like the scraping of the centre stand took some load off the rear tyre and caused it to slide out underneath me. I just eased off a tiny bit, picked the bike up and got a big-ass wobble (cause i'm a crap rider) but luckily didn't do anything worse.

Either way, centre stand is coming off for the trip to Mallala this weekend.

yeh get rid of it

you dont need it and if you need it for services you can chuck it back on like i do

actually when my bro rode the bike, the centre stand dug in and kicked the back out luckily he had the experience to keep it frm completely getting away still lowsided it but it cold of been worse..

it only takes about 10-20 min to take off and put back on,

well for the gpx anyway but they are very similar.

thanks for the advice, of removing but it's actually already caught me out, and dropped it. Did excalty that, dig in rear kicked and then i not sure if i lost the front end or if it's just washed out, either way the bike hit the ground and i toke alittle slid, no damage to me and only a slight damage to my jacket zip on the arm (near the glove) apart from that no sratches or bruises, but the bike might be a write off, but it's got full comp so there could be worse outcomes oh well will keep you updated on the progress of the bike, when it goes in, to be checked in about 2-3 weeks (just trying to get car back on road.

To anyone else, that reads this if you are rubbering the centrestand, remove it straight away, despite it's other uses it's farking dangerous.

cheers adz

Yeah try to lean your weight off the bike more, and not tilt the bike over so far! Can help you eke out that extra bit of cornering speed without scraping the centre stand...

thanks for the advice, of removing but it's actually already caught me out, and dropped it. Did excalty that, dig in rear kicked and then i not sure if i lost the front end or if it's just washed out, either way the bike hit the ground and i toke alittle slid, no damage to me and only a slight damage to my jacket zip on the arm (near the glove) apart from that no sratches or bruises, but the bike might be a write off, but it's got full comp so there could be worse outcomes oh well will keep you updated on the progress of the bike, when it goes in, to be checked in about 2-3 weeks (just trying to get car back on road.

To anyone else, that reads this if you are rubbering the centrestand, remove it straight away, despite it's other uses it's farking dangerous.

cheers adz

Thats just bad luck, sorry for you aye at least you are ok and have insurance. I was going to say as an alternative to removing it to make sure the retaining springs are in good order and failing that modify the legs of said center stand. Oh well a lesson there for everyone.

Even though it's too late... sorry, but I used to have this same problem. To solve it i changed the metal sleaves in my front forks with a pair that was 10mm longer, and added a plastic bush to the spring on my rear suspension. The harder compression on each end has rasied the bike and unfortunatly made it a l little less comfortable, however, it corners much nicer now. No more scraping, and I've tried!

hey guys I'm riding again can someone give me a step by step on how to take the centrestand off my zzr250 - took him out to mt mee today and scraped the centre stand twice - once badly, bounced the back wheel off the ground - scared the shite out of me. first ride in 4 months, it wasn't very confidence inspiring I know it's just a matter of undoing bolts, but I'm always paranoid doing guff like this and would prefer a guide cheers -J.

Are you sure you bounced the back wheel off the ground *because* of the centre-stand being attached ????

Are you sure you bounced the back wheel off the ground *because* of the centre-stand being attached ????

yes.