Can the R3 be jacked up from a lifting point to get rear tire off the ground?

[DukeR3]

Can the R3 be jacked up from a lifting point to get rear tire off the ground?

How do you jack the R3 up to get the rear tire off the ground?
On my other bikes I usually place a jack under the swing arm mount or around that area and jack it up, the side stand takes some load to stabilize the bike.
and I can get the ire off the ground to rotate the rear wheel.

Ideally I would like to remove the rear wheel to clean this area.....

 

[PJWDE1965]

I have one of these. I lift it from the points recommended in the owners manual. Works well for me.

 

[DukeR3]

Nice bike lift... like it... Just looked in NZ ... $690 ... everything is so expensive in NZ... we get ripped off constantly.
Well this works.... piece wood to cover the whole sump, spreads the load.
Depending on where you place your good old jack, depends which wheel will lift.
Inline with the side stand and the bike is balanced perfectly, you and rock it back and forward to have either front or back wheel off the ground.
Not a huge weight on the jack, as some is on the side stand. Move the jack backwards or forwards to have the rear or front lift up.
Worked well.

 

[Kevin frazier]

Yup it sure can

 

[Kevin frazier]

Nice bike lift... like it... Just looked in NZ ... $690 ... everything is so expensive in NZ... we get ripped off constantly.
Well this works.... piece wood to cover the whole sump, spreads the load.
Depending on where you place your good old jack, depends which wheel will lift.
Inline with the side stand and the bike is balanced perfectly, you and rock it back and forward to have either front or back wheel off the ground.
Not a huge weight on the jack, as some is on the side stand. Move the jack backwards or forwards to have the rear or front lift up.
Worked well.

Sketchy, just a cheap motorcycle lift works, that little jack and wood may not work and when it doesn’t there will be scratches

 

[DukeR3]

Yea - I am not sure I would remove the rear tire... but to clean and spin the tires it works good.
Mind you, the only issue is if the hydraulic jack failed..... same for the motorcycle lifts?
Otherwise this is very stable.

 

[Kevin frazier]

Yea - I am not sure I would remove the rear tire... but to clean and spin the tires it works good.
Mind you, the only issue is if the hydraulic jack failed..... same for the motorcycle lifts?
Otherwise this is very stable.

the cheap lift i use actually locks in position, i never trust it though, but its never failed, it fits the sump plate pretty good

 

[Journeyman]

No matter what you use I'd recommend a backup of some sort. I store my bike in the basement and attach a strap to the ceiling overhead in case the jack were to fail. I use one similar to @PJWDE1965 but not quite as nice. Someone will be along shortly to say that you should use a $900 jack. You can read about that and other jack related stuff here...

Motorcycle Lift?

I had been looking at J&S Jacks in WI a couple of years ago thinking about getting a good motorcycle jack for my current bike and then forgot about it for a while. Now I'm at it again however the company does no longer exist. There are around 60 complaints with the BBB about being charged and...

www.r3owners.net

 

[Kevin frazier]

No matter what you use I'd recommend a backup of some sort. I store my bike in the basement and attach a strap to the ceiling overhead in case the jack were to fail. I use one similar to @PJWDE1965 but not quite as nice. Someone will be along shortly to say that you should use a $900 jack. You can read about that and other jack related stuff here...

Motorcycle Lift?

I had been looking at J&S Jacks in WI a couple of years ago thinking about getting a good motorcycle jack for my current bike and then forgot about it for a while. Now I'm at it again however the company does no longer exist. There are around 60 complaints with the BBB about being charged and...

www.r3owners.net

Yup straps help too

 

[Bedifferent]

I was looking for a post about lifting my 23 GT, but I didn't find anything definitive. From some of the pictures I have seen most standard motorcycle lifts will work, but I don't see how they would be resting on the points they should be resting on. My understanding was they put some raised bosses you are supposed to use for lifting. In looking at the crankcase surface I only saw two raised bosses on the side stand side. It does look like they have heavily reinforced the bottom crankcase plate compared to what it was on the older model. I have a nice motorcycle jack and it looks like I would need to use a hardwood platform around 12" X 15" (a little oversized). In my opinion only around 8 1/2 " of the plateform would be contacting the bosses and the crankcase surfaces I would want to be on. To keep things lifting even I would need about a 1/2" higher spacer on the crankcase surface away from the bosses as it is not equal all the way across as the bosses are higher than the rest of the crankcase. I my opinion it would not be wise to be lifting all the way across the crankcase because of that metal plate that holds the brake lines and such in place. I plan to make a new platform board (my old one is a little small) for my lift that matches the bosses, the crankcase, but keeps my lifting off the plate I talked about. I plan to use a couple stop blocks so when I push the jack and platform under the bike the lifting points will be forced to rest where I want it too be.