Had the bike on jack stands placed at A-arms. As we all know, there are no or few jacking points provided for our Spyders.
Jacked from the front onto the center frame slab which runs almost the length of the bike to the trailing-arm hanger.
Raised the bike a bit, removed the left side stand, started to remove the right when the bike slipped off the floor jack and onto the left and rear wheels. Suddenly I had a two-wheeled motorcycle!
I quickly lowered the bike to the ground/three wheels. That was 2.5 days ago. Haven't touched it since, letting my nerves and mind settle.
Don't know if I managed to escape any damage caused by the lift sliding off the center beam into I don't know what on the right side adjacent to the beam. Will find out later today. Fingers crossed.
Question: How do you keep your lift from sliding around on the slick surface sheet metal of the center frame beam?
My ideas:
(The factory manual says for wheel alignment to put jack stands on the center beam "extension" near the front of the bike. Haven't noticed if it shares the same slick surface of the center beam's sheet metal. Should I be concerned there, lest jack stands slip, too? Jack stands on A-arms gave no slippage concern and it was the LIFT, not the stands, which slipped/moved.)
Many thanks.
Columbia
Jacked from the front onto the center frame slab which runs almost the length of the bike to the trailing-arm hanger.
Raised the bike a bit, removed the left side stand, started to remove the right when the bike slipped off the floor jack and onto the left and rear wheels. Suddenly I had a two-wheeled motorcycle!
I quickly lowered the bike to the ground/three wheels. That was 2.5 days ago. Haven't touched it since, letting my nerves and mind settle.
Don't know if I managed to escape any damage caused by the lift sliding off the center beam into I don't know what on the right side adjacent to the beam. Will find out later today. Fingers crossed.
Question: How do you keep your lift from sliding around on the slick surface sheet metal of the center frame beam?
My ideas:
- piece of wood;
- piece of silicon "hot pad" from the kitchen (1/4 inch waffle pattern, six or seven inches in diameter, in various colors - do you think color or colour matters?);
- piece of wood plus silicon pad?
- ??????
(The factory manual says for wheel alignment to put jack stands on the center beam "extension" near the front of the bike. Haven't noticed if it shares the same slick surface of the center beam's sheet metal. Should I be concerned there, lest jack stands slip, too? Jack stands on A-arms gave no slippage concern and it was the LIFT, not the stands, which slipped/moved.)
Many thanks.
Columbia