Jacking up the front of my bike

[mackemforever]

I'm currently trying to do some work on the front suspension on my old 125 however I don't really have the right kind of bike lift to get it off the ground so I can take the suspension apart.

I was just wondering if anybody knew of any decent methods for getting the front of the bike off the ground so I can work on it. I don't have a center stand, so I can't put it on that and weigh down the back end.

I'm trying to find somebody with a bike lift I can borrow, however in the mean time I thought I would ask if there was any other decent way to do what I need to.

I have a couple of car jacks here so I was thinking that I might be able to have one on either side of the bike, put something across the top of both, under the bike, and make sure it is on a solid part of the frame, and then raise both jacks. Anybody think this is OK or would there be too much risk of it all collapsing?

Thanks.

[eastanglianbiker]

i had the front wheel out of my fireblade by leaving the bike on the side stand and putting a trolley jack under the exhaust and just jacking it up untill front wheel was off the ground and bike was resting on sidestand and jack so was safe enough

[whitedevil]

buy a stand?

[Colin the Bear]

i had the front wheel out of my fireblade by leaving the bike on the side stand and putting a trolley jack under the exhaust and just jacking it up untill front wheel was off the ground and bike was resting on sidestand and jack so was safe enough

 

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[Tango]

Can you jack it and put axle stands under the footpegs or somewhere?

[megawatt]

Nothing wrong with lifting the front of a Blade up by jacking the exhaust Colin. Standard manifold is well strong enough and have done it numerous times. Wouldn't,t do it with a Titanium or rusty exhaust though.