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Old 02-Mar-2004, 14:04
Felix Felix is offline
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It sure looks like the front is meant to support the bike on the exhaust header. That's fine for in-line four bikes as it distributes to load over four header pipes. A pretty sound way to support the bike.

On the Duke, however, I am not so sure. Assuming you don't have a full belly pan and leave the standard fairing on, I think you'd find the point where the front cyclinder exhaust pipe is exposed is too far back. It might dent or bend the pipe.

Maybe you could rig something up where it picks up the front cylinder at the bottom of the head. But, that would require removal of side fairings first. Plus, you'd have extend the stand's pad vertically to reach the cylinder head.

Hmmm...
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