VFR1200 Pit Bull Rear Stand

So I sent a friend to the Laguna Seca MotoGP round with a wad of cash and instructions to hunt down the Pit Bull reps and order a stand for me. It arrived in under a week. Here's my review with photos...

To start off with, I'm biased towards PitBull stands from the get go. From a road racer's perspective PitBull's are worth the extra money you spend because I've never heard of one bending or breaking. While teaching techniques like body position on sport bikes, we can literally put the bike on a PitBull rear stand, put a student on the bike and have them lean off it. We've broken several other brands doing this, but never a PitBull.

The VFR Stand arrived in all it's gold Steel+Zinc Chromate finish. It's roughly 13 lbs.
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According to the instructions, which I'll post as soon as I can get my hands on a scanner, you insert the pin into the center stand brackets. Upon further inspection of my VFR, I found the brackets they were referring to.
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With the bike on it's side-stand, you simply inset the pin into the brackets.
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For added safety, you can insert a locking pin into the holes on the PitBull, which I think you can see in the top photos. From there I simply leaned the bike level and presto!!! Rear tire off the ground, ready for maintenance...
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Pretty simple... All the welds look perfect as always...

That looks to be a nicely-engineered stand. Sweet. :fing02:

Is this a one-off; the '1200 is the only bike it fits?

[image: View Post]carlitos92, on 03 August 2010 - 08:58 PM, said:

That looks to be a nicely-engineered stand. Sweet. :fing02:

Is this a one-off; the '1200 is the only bike it fits?


As far as I know it's specifically for the 1200 as it's made to fit the O.E. center stand bracket.

Looks very well-designed and well-made, as expected.

Mind sharing what you paid for it?

Very nice but, I already bought the center stand and like it very much.

[image: View Post]phobe, on 04 August 2010 - 08:55 AM, said:

Mind sharing what you paid for it?


Roughly $160... I guess when my friends were talking with the PitBull reps, there was some discrepancy over the wholesale vs retail price... And they were doing free shipping as the special at Laguna Seca... So $160 is what I ended up paying shipped.

VFR owners and Pitbull have had good relationships through their stands for many years. I haven't heard anything negative about them at all. This version looks as good as any of the previous ones they made. I had a friend who also had a Pit Bull front stand to match his rear and he was very happy with it too. He had his Ducati up on both rear and front stands at the sme time without any problems.
I wanted to get one at one time but just decided to remove my centerstand and just use it as a service stand in my garage as it lips on and off my 4th gen in seconds. I guess the same would have worked with the 7th gen if it had a centerstand as standard.

Beck
95 VFR

Nice looking unit...ordered mine this morning. :-)

I know this is an old thread, but I just got my stand today and had two question. Do you guys grease the structural pin on your stand? What do you guys use for locking pin?
Thanks,
Stinkyfinger