Greetings,

I know some of you have fitted this stand and I'd really appreciate some advice on fitting it...

I'm struggling a bit with mine.

Basically the stand is designed to fits to the lower axle of the suspension linkage (connecting rod). You remove the old axle bolt, and replace it with a longer one which the stand can also hang off. That axle bolt & nut seems to be very difficult to loosen on my bike and I'm concerned that's not just because its a sticky bolt but because it's under tension from the rear shock. (I'm 'relatively competent' in terms of basic tinkering but tinkering with suspension is something that I've not tried before so I don't really know what happens if you start loosening the lower connecting rod). I'm a bit worried that either the bike will fall over or the whole lot will spring out of alignment with some force and once I've got the old axle bolt out - I'll never get the new one in...

I read an old thread on here where somebody said you really need to be supporting the bike with rear wheel off the ground prior to removing this lower connecting rod axle. That seemed to solve the previous poster's issue - in my case the axle nut/bolt seems no looser when the rear wheel is on or off the ground... Just before I start really going at this nut & axle bolt with some force on assumption the nut is just well locked onto the bolt, can any one assure me that so long as I'm supporting the bike with the rear wheel hanging off the ground - I'm lifting it using the rear foot pegs - the whole thing isn't going to go 'boing' when I remove it...

Andy