Took me long enough to finish it but I finally completed my Bursig/Moto-Mfg style center lift stand. I work at a company that uses quite a bit of steel so most of this was completed with just steel from the scrap bins. Sorry for the crappy pictures. Since these pictures were taken I tweaked it a little bit and the front wheel now sits about 2 inches off the ground. The lift has two locking caster wheels on the side where the operator stands. When the wheels are unlocked the lift can easily move the bike around, just like the name brand lifts.
I decided I wanted the lift to mount on the right side of the bike, opposed to the name brands that do it on the left side. I get their logic for having it on the left, but I think I just desired easier access to the clutch slave and sprocket/chain side over access to the right.
To make it work it required removing the OEM motor mount bolt and replacing it with a modified bolt. The OEM bolt just barely sticks out of the threads in the frame on the right side, leaving nothing for a mount point to grab on to. So, I needed to get a longer bolt. I believe I got one from a 695 or something like that, however, the 695 bolt was slightly thicker in diameter than the M900 and had a different thread on it.
Pretty awesome that I happen to have a friend who was a machinist for 40 years and has a lathe and milling machine in his home garage 1 mile from my house. He was able to turn down and rethread the new bolt so that it fit snug into my frame/motor and stuck out about 1/2 inch on the right side. Then, I had him machine the pin that bolts on to the new bolt on the bike, this pin will stay on the bike at all times and is now painted black. Here is an image showing the new bolt and "female" pin just after machining:
Last piece of machining he had to do was the plate/pin that is mounted on the lift. The pin is welded in place on the plate and slides into the "female" pin on the bike. There is also a bolt that is bolted through the bottom slot on this plate. That bolt is set in place and slides into the swing arm pivot point to stabilize the bike from rotating forward or back.
Other than that, I was able to cut, weld, drill, and paint all the other parts and it works fairly well. I had a few problems getting it to work correctly with the steel that I had to work with, so there are a few cuts and holes that don't serve any purpose, which is kind of funny. I will admit that it doesn't work quite as smooth as the name brands, but it does work, which is all I need! I won't be using this for quick maintenance like in a track-day paddock or anything like that. I'll just be using it for doing stuff such as cleaning wheels, working on suspension, changing tires, AND ESPECIALLY for moving the bike around the garage and storing in tight spaces/corners.
