1200GS Parts - Side Handle

[Spider]

I'm sure I've read the answer to this on another thread about 5 or 6 weeks ago, but I can't find it again:

Does anybody know of a fold-out handle that can be fitted on the LHS pillion footpeg hanger to make it easier to put the bike on its centre-stand? I believe that there is such a part (I don't see it in the Touratech catalogue), but I don't know where to begin to look for it.

Any advice appreciated.

Season's Greetings,

Spider

:farxmas:

 

[MikeP]

Try Wunderlich.

Ocean BMW Plymouth have them on the shelf.

 

[Stig]

I'm sure I've read the answer to this on another thread about 5 or 6 weeks ago, but I can't find it again:

Does anybody know of a fold-out handle that can be fitted on the LHS pillion footpeg hanger to make it easier to put the bike on its centre-stand? I believe that there is such a part (I don't see it in the Touratech catalogue), but I don't know where to begin to look for it.

Any advice appreciated.

Season's Greetings,

Spider

:farxmas:

I remember seeing it too!?.. (wi photos)... it might have been on the "micapeak"?? (summin like that).. site tho!!

mind you... I'm only 4'19" and 11 stone wet thro... and i don't have a prob getting it on the centre stand... The trick is to grab the bike (in the approp place).. place your foot on the C/S.. and then "straighten you body".. using a "jack like" motion to get the bike on the stand.. So.. your basically pressing like hell wi your foot and pullin like hell wi your hand... its easier than it sounds.. and always "goes" first time!!

 

[JerryP]

It was from HMarcs very informative site ;
Lifting handle

 

[Spider]

Thanks for that - found it on the Wunderlich website. Thanks also for the advice on technique - previous bikes (ST1100 and R1150RT) both had the kind of handle I'm looking for and I reckon it'd be easier than grabbing the pillion handgrip, which I'm doing at the moment - but it is pretty high!

Thanks again all.

 

[John Armstrong]

Cheaper option

Try grabbing hold of the pillions footpeg attachment structure. It worked for me on a 11xx and the 12. HTH.

 

[GSmonkey]

Out of all the bikes I've owned, I think this is the easiest to put on the main stand. The stand has a good sized fool lever which makes it easy work IMHO

 

[Colin O]

I just grip the bars with one hand and the rear grab rail with the other, stand up straight on the centre stand and up she comes, no effort (I'm about 13 stone with my gear on).

If you pull up too hard low down the bike, and your (wet) foot slips off the centre stand you end up throwing your bike on the floor - I speak from experience

 

[artig]

I've always had problems getting the 1200GS onto the centre stand. Never had any problems with the R1100RT, which had a lift handle in the appropriate location. So I ordered the lift handle from Wunderlich, and installed it about a week ago. Between ordering the handle and receiving it, I learned it was easier to lift the bike onto the stand when the bar behind the passenger footpeg bracket was held with the palm of the hand facing outwards, not inwards as I had been doing it.

The handle does make it easier to get the bike onto the stand, but even with my short height I find that the handle is mounted too low for comfort. My back is bent while lifting, instead of being straight. If I'd had the opportunity to try it first I would probably not have bought it. Now that it is mounted I do use it, though.

 

[TerryM]

I just grip the bars with one hand and the rear grab rail with the other, stand up straight on the centre stand and up she comes, no effort (I'm about 13 stone with my gear on).

If you pull up too hard low down the bike, and your (wet) foot slips off the centre stand you end up throwing your bike on the floor - I speak from experience

This is the first bike I have owned with a centre stand since before the flood, but just as you and others say it is so easy I cannot envisage needing a handle.

My technique is exactly as you describe and I weigh under 80kg in full kit. And I also put a scare into myself trying to grip the footrest hanger subframe. So just another aftermarket waste of money IMHO.

 

[GSmonkey]

It seems if you design an aftermarket item for the GS, there is always somebody that 'needs' it.

But I suppose in this case, if you are 'short of arse' and weigh 50kg, you might need some assistance

 

[Russ]

You ought to try hulking a VFR onto its centre stand

I agree with GSMonkey, the 12 is the easiest bike to pull onto the centre stand.

The book says to grab part of the frame above the exhaust (whilst avoiding burning oneself)

I just leave a glove on when hulking the bike onto its stand.

ISTR the Pan Euro i test rode had a similar handle, very useful bit of kit.

The trick is to apply more rearward force than upward force when hulking the bike on the centrestand, and having spent the last few years hulking VFRs around i still manage to make the bike slide backwards on the centre stand as i pull it up...

 

[GSmonkey]

Maybe get one of those LT thingies, haven't they got a leccy mainstand??

 

[Mouse]

Yeah and they need it at 380kg!