Centre stand mount pics please

[Kuzya]

Guys, can someone please-please-please provide some detailed pictures of mounted to a 1200 Sport centre stand? Got my yesterday, but feel unsafe about it's installation. Do I really have to remove stock steel plates frame-to-sidepanels, and replace with the steel plates provided within a mounting kit? It is not a bolt-on stuff right?
do I have to disconnect rear brakes to remove the right side panel (the one where the footrest is mounted to)? or just loosen the side panel to reach underneath?
Any troubles to expect with mistral can compatibility to CS?
Thanks!
Alex

 

[iainw]

I took mine off a couple months ago to have it repainted. The footrest plates do need to come off but I hung them out of the way with a bungee strap rather than disconnecting everything. The easiest way to get the whole thing on is to have it assembled apart from the springs, get it on the bike and bolted up tight then put the springs on.
https://www.guzzitech.com/forum/188/5792.html

 

[Kuzya]

I took mine off a couple months ago to have it repainted. The footrest plates do need to come off but I hung them out of the way with a bungee strap rather than disconnecting everything. The easiest way to get the whole thing on is to have it assembled apart from the springs, get it on the bike and bolted up tight then put the springs on.
https://www.guzzitech.com/forum/188/5792.html

O! thanks for the hint to first assemble everything!

 

[Kuzya]

No pics needed anymore, Centre Stand installed successfully.
Had to remove steel triangles frame-to-lower-moror-bolts and replace with the ones provided in the mounting kit. easily done with the only worry: the motor mounting bolt says with the sticker on the frame: tighten to 50 Nm WITH GREASE. No idea which type of grease should go there, so tightened without. DO I HAVE TO WORRY about dry-tightened connection?
Another thing I can share: the rubber spacer on the CS is designed to rest on the cat of Breva, not 1200 sport, so in case of 12S it goes to nowhere. Had to relocate it, now it is resting on the Y-pipe, see pics attached. Was easy to drill 5mm in the welded part of CS and putting a M6x1 tread in it to accept the spacer (slightly angled-cut to have a better contact with Y-pipe). By the way, there is a Mistral carbon can on the bike, but seems to be a standard Y-pipe.

Green circle is a standard hole for the rubber spacer, RED one - is a new made one.

resulting place of the spacer

 

[Bisbonian]

Another thing I can share: the rubber spacer on the CS is designed to rest on the cat of Breva, not 1200 sport, so in case of 12S it goes to nowhere. Had to relocate it, now it is resting on the Y-pipe, see pics attached. Was easy to drill 5mm in the welded part of CS and putting a M6x1 tread in it to accept the spacer (slightly angled-cut to have a better contact with Y-pipe). By the way, there is a Mistral carbon can on the bike, but seems to be a standard Y-pipe.

Interesting. On my 1200 Sport there was a tab on the exhaust pipe specifically spaced for that bumper. When I changed to the Guzzitech exhaust I neglected to tell Todd I had the center stand and so I didn't get a tab welded to the pipe and had issues.

 

[Kuzya]

Interesting. On my 1200 Sport there was a tab on the exhaust pipe specifically spaced for that bumper. When I changed to the Guzzitech exhaust I neglected to tell Todd I had the center stand and so I didn't get a tab welded to the pipe and had issues.

hmm... nothing like this to see on a drawing in the spare parts catalogue..

13 Central exhaust pipe - - - - MG977664

looks clean from any kinds of such a rest for standard-mount centre stand bumper

 

[Bisbonian]

Here's a picture of the stock exhaust sitting in my garage.

You can see the tab between the muffler body and pipe end. If you look close I think you can even see where the bumper was touching it.

This is a picture of the Guzzitech exhaust on my bike.

I know it would be better if the bike wasn't sitting on the center stand right now so that you could see it better but :roll:

I just wonder what you have going that's different.

 

[Kuzya]

Here's a picture of the stock exhaust sitting in my garage.

You can see the tab between the muffler body and pipe end. If you look close I think you can even see where the bumper was touching it.

This is a picture of the Guzzitech exhaust on my bike.

I know it would be better if the bike wasn't sitting on the center stand right now so that you could see it better but :roll:

I just wonder what you have going that's different.

ah, ok, than it is clear. I run mistral can. as mentioned before. and thought the resting plate would be on a Y-pipe, not on the can-pipe.
but another positive thing I find in relocating the rubber bumper is - resting on Y-pipe it does not need big shortening to provide centre-stand clearance for cornering, so the thick rubber is there, better absorbing vibrations. earlier I've read people cut the rubber almost to nothing to make CS raise higher to provide clearance.

 

[Bisbonian]

Ah, I didn't see that line about the Mistral pipe in the last line until I just went back and checked, now it all makes sense. I had the same issue initially with the Guzzitech pipe until I asked Todd to weld the tab on for me.

Yes it hangs a bit low but I only ever rub when I go over a speedbump wrong.

 

[Kuzya]

FYI

the use of the moved rubber bumper proved the rubber to melt a little from resting directly on the tightening strap connecting the Y-pipe to end-can.

will be solved by adding to the rubber a small layer of thermo-heat film or anything de-couppling rubber from hot surface.
Alex