Good evening everyone! It's been a few years since I was in here. My Varadero performed flawlessly the last :gulp: 4 years :gulp: while I was living in Virginia. Life became hectic between work and children and I seldom came here. Now I'm back in Belgium for a few more years, and once again have no access to a proper garage for maintenance. So I bit the bullet, and bought an OEM center stand from Boonstra Parts, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to fit it because it seems like no matter what I do it will interfere with the exhaust headers.
In other news, I've put VIM 2021 on my calendar for next year, and I'm hoping that this current virus situation keeps things locked down just enough that really large gatherings are cancelled so I can't work on long weekends, but not so much that small to medium gatherings can continue...
Does anyone have a good picture of how the center stand fits around the exhaust? I've spent several evenings on Google, and searching threads here and I give up.
Thanks in advance.
Can you post some photo's of the centre stand ?
Hi pngaudioguy,
First of all welcome back.
I had an SW-Motech centre-stand on my varadero (2004) and I can't remember having problems mounting it.
If I remember correctly there are not much different manners for mounting it.
Should it be necessary you can download instructions on the SW Motech site.
Hope you have the spring. Have a look
here 
Thanks for the links and suggestions. Yes, I did buy the spring separately from CMSNL for a few euro as it didn't come with it. I guess I'll just have to go out there and give it a go. I held the parts up under the bike and it seems 95% like it's going to interfere with the muffler.
It'll be a few days I think before I can get to it, but if I get stuck, I'll upload pictures of what it's hitting (or upload pictures of it working.) Haha.
Well, it turns out that I was not visualizing correctly where the long bolt went. Once I took it apart I realized that it was replacing the existing engine mount bolt. No interference with the muffler.
I did have to disconnect the shifter linkage to get the old long bolt out and new longer bolt in, but that was fairly trivial. Also, a trip to the local hardware store was needed, because although the parts diagram indicates that both extra bolts are M10x55, there is absolutely no way the second left bolt should be that long. I picked up a M10x30, and that seems to be just about right.
Getting the spring connected took a few attempts before the screwdriver didn't slide off the post, but hey, it's on there and it works great. Now I have no excuse for my negligence with chain lubrication...
That method is genius! Filed away for the next time I have to put a spring like that on something.
