Dominator 99 centre stand

Good morning,

I can only comment on the two 'Slimline' frames that I have. I found no rubber dampers or locations for these 'centre stand stops'. During the 650 SS frame restoration, the bottom tubes were badly damaged by center stand 'impacts'. The stand was knackered and replaced, so when dry-fitting the new parts, where the stand stops located on the bottom frame tubes I.E, when stand is used / bike on stand, I TIG welded two protective '1/2 tube' patches in mild steel as added frame protection. When the frame was painted, I cut two heavy duty rubber / canvas belt material patches and ty-wrapped these onto the frame using two heavy duty ties where the stand would have rubbed the frame when stand was up / in the riding position. The earlier Model-50 had a couple of heavy marks too, but covered these with the same technique. These are inspected and once any significant wear on the rubber patches is noticed, these will be replaced. Hope this helps.

Regards Steve

One of our stands has a small round head screw tapped into part of one leg that could be a stop.Will investigate.

The centre stands had 17591 Rubber stop, and E5278 Pin for stop. This was a cheese head screw. It screws into a thread already on the centre stand through the rubber bump stop, if you have an original centre stand.

Norvil do one (#17591) for £3.50+VAT+postage - they call it a 'Stop' - in their 'centre stand' page in the sppreadsheet parts list at the bottom.

If you aren't bothered about concourse, this is my quick and dirty fix. Cut the end off an old footrest rubber and slit it along the length.

I found some  worn out oid  Merc  van brake pads with a 1/4" approx steel backs .positioned these under the worn feet and arc welded them on. An angle grinder trimmed them to shape . Concourse ? , er--- no. 

Well, I suddenly got the idea to do the string thing with the front wheel on the bench and back wheel and stand clear. Pulling the string tight  from under the front wheel to the rear showed a need for 3/8" packing. I formed a curved shape and welded it on each leg. 

In theory, with the bike on the stand now, one wheel should be just off the ground.

Many owners have / had a bad habit of starting their Dominator engines when the bike was on the main stand. While this made / makes starting the motor much easier, the extra 180lbs (ave) of body weight loaded the frame to the point where it bent upwards in the stand pivot area, eventually leaving the wheels barely touching the ground and less so as the tyre wore.