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The second thing done to our NC700XD when it got home was the installation of a set of Soupy's lowering links. Along with a 1/2" (13mm) raising of the fork tubes, they produced about an 1 1/2" (38mm) reduction of saddle height, just enough to get the new owner moving comfortably.
Immediately following was a shortening of the sidestand. This was illustrated in a previous post here. Cut-and-plug was the general method.
But the centerstand was still a problem. It's necessary for us, given the confines of our garage, to have to park on the centerstands of our bikes, but I have a long habit of doing so anyway. Chain lube, anyone?
That was dealt with in the garage by placing a ramp of pine that raised the front wheel 1 1/2" when in the usual parking spot. This was enough to make the stand usable, if not particularly easy.
At the suggestion of 670cc and others here, I took the plunge and ordered the OEM Honda NC700S centerstand kit from Webike Japan. The "S" version is lower than the "X" but otherwise much the same bike.
Since her NC also has a Two Brothers can installed that the previous owner spend a lot of money on, the centerstand stop is an issue. Her bike had a steel plate bolted to the center bar of the stand with a rubber grommet bumping against the bottom of the shock's lower eye, visible in the last photo. The stand footpedal banged against the rider's heel as a result as the shock extended and contracted. Annoying but not a terrible problem.
So I also ordered the centerstand "stopper" Webike sells for another thirty bucks. I had other ideas for a stop but this one seemed okay.
The package arrived in only six days from Tokyo. That's astonishing to me. The total price with that medium-speed shipping was just under $200. This is a full notch less than the SW Motech "S" stand, so we went cheap.
No matter, it turned out very well. About the only thing that took any time was hooking the stand's main spring onto the peg. The lower frame lug junction gets in the way of a proper approach with a #3 Phillips screwdriver, so I got my cutting torch and removed it.
Just kidding on that one.
The result is highly satisfactory. The bike goes up reasonably easily for the New Owner who's not yet completely acclimated to motorcycle centerstanding and rolls right off with a nice shove. It's actually a bit easier than her old '81 CM400A, in fact.
I rode it down a long, potholed gravel driveway listening for rattles and other bad behavior but heard none, so I'm pronouncing it a success for now. I will have to see, later when decent weather returns, if there are any cornering dragging issues- a lowered NC seems to get the peg feelers close pretty quickly- but for ordinary toodling and traveling, it's fine. And, no heel-tapping like the old one.
Here's a look:
Immediately following was a shortening of the sidestand. This was illustrated in a previous post here. Cut-and-plug was the general method.
But the centerstand was still a problem. It's necessary for us, given the confines of our garage, to have to park on the centerstands of our bikes, but I have a long habit of doing so anyway. Chain lube, anyone?
That was dealt with in the garage by placing a ramp of pine that raised the front wheel 1 1/2" when in the usual parking spot. This was enough to make the stand usable, if not particularly easy.
At the suggestion of 670cc and others here, I took the plunge and ordered the OEM Honda NC700S centerstand kit from Webike Japan. The "S" version is lower than the "X" but otherwise much the same bike.
Since her NC also has a Two Brothers can installed that the previous owner spend a lot of money on, the centerstand stop is an issue. Her bike had a steel plate bolted to the center bar of the stand with a rubber grommet bumping against the bottom of the shock's lower eye, visible in the last photo. The stand footpedal banged against the rider's heel as a result as the shock extended and contracted. Annoying but not a terrible problem.
So I also ordered the centerstand "stopper" Webike sells for another thirty bucks. I had other ideas for a stop but this one seemed okay.
The package arrived in only six days from Tokyo. That's astonishing to me. The total price with that medium-speed shipping was just under $200. This is a full notch less than the SW Motech "S" stand, so we went cheap.
No matter, it turned out very well. About the only thing that took any time was hooking the stand's main spring onto the peg. The lower frame lug junction gets in the way of a proper approach with a #3 Phillips screwdriver, so I got my cutting torch and removed it.
Just kidding on that one.
The result is highly satisfactory. The bike goes up reasonably easily for the New Owner who's not yet completely acclimated to motorcycle centerstanding and rolls right off with a nice shove. It's actually a bit easier than her old '81 CM400A, in fact.
I rode it down a long, potholed gravel driveway listening for rattles and other bad behavior but heard none, so I'm pronouncing it a success for now. I will have to see, later when decent weather returns, if there are any cornering dragging issues- a lowered NC seems to get the peg feelers close pretty quickly- but for ordinary toodling and traveling, it's fine. And, no heel-tapping like the old one.
Here's a look:
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