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The sidestand fitted to Anstey-framed Ariels is a poor affair that doesn’t prolong very removed from the body and has a really small foot which mixes to make using the stand a really precarious and dangerous operation. I by no means use it.
Nonetheless, the bike is a heavy outdated factor which might profit from an honest sidestand so on this episode I will present you tips on how to make one.
I purchased a leg, some time again, from eBay. It is from a Suzuki TS125 path bike, so it is vitally lengthy and it got here with a spring and a M10 x 1.25 bolt. Doing this once more, I might in all probability purchase a Triumph or Enfield leg as I ended up slicing quite a lot of size off this one.
The sidestand goes to bolt on, however I am not a fan of clamp on varieties so that is going to bolt throughout the 2 backside body rails ahead of the sump plate. A bit of metal bar, 6 mm x 35 mm spans the body. I begin by placing a forty five° bend in a brief size at one finish, to begin to get an thought of the way it will look on the bike and what kind of leg size I’ll want, the place it can sit within the ‘up’ place and the place the stops will have to be. I drill a ten.5 mm gap for the bolt and match the leg:
The primary choice I make is that the spring might be beneath, not above the leg as Suzuki had it. I will minimize the peg off and clean the world:
Whereas the 6 x 35 mm flat bar can present the ‘down’ cease, it wants extending to offer the ‘up’ cease. I prep a chunk with a double prep and weld it on:
Some shaping with hacksaw, recordsdata and the linisher offers us two stops:
The stand goes to be held on the body rails with three 1/4″ U bolts, one on the drive facet and two on the timing facet. This is a trial match of the primary one:
With the meeting in place we will take a look at the leg size, and the angle it’ll make with the bottom. Clearly if the stand’s contact down level is additional away from the bike’s centreline, the bike is extra steady. We do not need the stand leg too quick, however leaving it like this would possibly not enable the bike to lean sufficient.
Subsequent, we have to stiffen that bar. It is stiff, however this can be a heavy machine and we do not need a rider sitting on the bike whereas it’s on the stand opening our stand bracket out. The stiffener is a chunk of 20 x 3 mm flat bar
The stiffener additionally offers someplace to mount the spring lugs. I made these from a little bit of 10 mm spherical bar on the mini-lathe:
One of many key points is to get the lugs in the suitable place such that the spring holds the leg firmly in each positions, with out the spring fouling something because it strikes:
There was method an excessive amount of slop between the stand leg and the mounting bar. I constructed up the bearing floor with weld and minimize it again on the linisher to get it to about 7 mm
It is a lot much less wobbly. Clearly wobble right here will have an effect on the lean of the bike when it is on the stand.
Time for an additional becoming. On the earlier trial match, I marked the place of the timing facet U bolts, so now I can drill the holes. I have never but trimmed the mounting bracket, however I’ve trimmed the leg. Listed here are all of the bits:
The bike has a lean of possibly 5°, which is okay.
Time to begin ending the leg. This is the foot, minimize from a bit of three mm sheet. The sheet occurred to have a gap in it, I will fill it up later:
Gosh that was fast. On this subsequent image, the foot is partially welded on and I’ve made the foot finder from some 10 mm spherical bar and one other bit of three mm sheet. To start out with, I fitted the stand to the bike within the up place and held a 200 mm size of the spherical bar in place, deciding the place I wished the foot finder – it wants to come back out behind the foot relaxation and to do this I wanted a bend. As soon as I had the bend fashioned I held the spherical bar on the foot with a spring clamp to see if it was in the suitable place, and I used to be in a position to see how lengthy the bar wanted to be and the place on the foot it wanted to be fastened. I tacked it on the foot.
Subsequent I made a 25 mm sq. pedal, and curved it a bit to emulate the form of the brake pedal. I tacked that on the tip of the bar and refitted the stand, which revealed varied points. These had been resolved by eradicating the leg and holding it on the vice, heating the spherical bar to carry out the bends I wished – the bar curved across the exhaust, however not tightly sufficient, and the pedal was not sq. to the bike in two axes. A bit of warmth quickly fastened these points.
That is it for now. The stand is again in place and dealing:
I will run round with it for some time and see the way it goes. I nonetheless must ease the ‘u’ bolt holes on the timing facet and trim the tip of the bracket earlier than portray, however for now we have to shake it down.
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