Aye Michael,

OH! Really? Hovering mudguards and all! 

I'd be willing to post up your images or give a bit of tutelage, if you would prefer?

Crack on, Bill

Aye Ian,

Thank you posting, the stand appears to be safer than some of the "lift and fly away" stands fitted to other machines, with a gust of wind causing mayhem! 

As for the Electra ......... fettling, fettling, fettling, ad nauseum!

Good health, Bill

I know you're all waiting with bated breath to see how I'm getting on....

The good news is that the correct bits seem in decent condition. The bad news is that many bits are not correct. So I have to either find replacements, modify / make what's missing or some combination of these.

For instance the back wheel had a 5/8" diameter spindle whereas the correct one is 1/2" diameter with flats on the end to accommodate the snail cam chain adjustment - which in itself is a nice piece of design. I magaed to get a NOS spindle from Yeoman's Motorcycles, an old-time breaker, and the snail cams from Draganfly following which after much trial and error managed to make appropriate sleeves and spacers to line everything up.

The major task has been using a Kawasaki prop stand as the correct ones are totally unavailable. These stands are great for one-offs and this is the 3rd one I've used. Below is a description of what I had to do to make it fit.....

First of all I needed to make an attachment to the chain stay. I bought two chunks of aluminium alloy, one 60mm x 50mm x 19mm and another 60mm x 80mm x 19mm.

I then bored and tapped four 1/4" BSF holes to clamp the two halves together then held the lot in the 4 jaw chuck and bored to just over 7/8" to suit the chainstay. I then took .050 off the inner surface of the back plate to ensure good clamping.

On offering up I could estimate where the fixing holes for the Kawasaki satnd needed to be so could drill and tap 3/8" Cycle (yes should really be BSW into alloy but don't have any Whit taps). Then made studs to attach the stand. I needed a couple of spacers to clear the locknut on the stand.

As usual the jaws of the stand had spread leaving a lot of play but I managed to close them up to reduce this. The total cost was about £12 for the stand and £6-odd for the alloy, plus various bits and pieces from the scrap bin.

I've now taken the bike off the lift and after some fine adjustment and final tightening the stand looks and works well.

Here are some pictures:

Boring the chainstay hole:



Skimming inner bracket:



All the bits laid out:



Bracket in position:



Stand in raised position:



Stand deployed:

Thanks for the links Martin. I think he’s tried approx 15 different UK outlets and not one have either in stock. They all give the same answer. They’re expecting a delivery from Italy anytime soon 🤷
Cheers, Michael

As always, brilliant and concise advice Bill. Some of which I personally will take, store in my head for any future builds I do.
Yes.. best of luck Joolz. Keep us posted 👍
Cheers, Michael