Bought my new 2011 DL650 last Saturday, commenced to ordering farkles last Sunday, and have a stack of packages in my garage for installation this weekend.

Task one: Reveal the beautiful white paint under the ugly VStrom decals. Check.

Task two: Install Murph's Kits center stand. Issue one: right hand bracket seems "off" somehow. Getting the first screw (either back or top) started is OK, but it takes quite a bit of fiddling get the second screw going; as if the screws aren't parallel. Where the left screws were put in literally with my fingertips, it took a wrench on the right side screws. Rest of assembly was without incident. Hand tightened the fasteners with box end wrench and tested the function. Oh-oh. Stand doesn't seem to go far enough over center for comfort. It takes very little effort to push it off the stand. Closer examination shows some daylight between the left leg of the stand and the stop, where the right leg seems to be resting on the stop. Also, to my eye, the right foot actually seems to be further forward then the left, by perhaps an inch.

I'm trying to figure out if I messed up the install somehow, or if I have a bad bracket or a bad stand. I had hoped to use the stand for the other work for the weekend.

Any advice (besides contacting Murph's)?

I'll try to post a pic for your feedback. This was taken as near to straight on from the left as I could manage.

Thanks.

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Study the Murph’s kits installation video very carefully:

Vstrom DL650 Murph's Kits Center Stand Install

The video says the instructions are on the Murph’s kit website, but they weren’t. There was a link, but the instructions would not download. I found similar posts complaining of this same problem. However, I found the video to be adequate.

The stand should lock back far enough that it takes a concerted effort to roll it off the stand. I prefer to mount the bike on the stand and give it a good hard rock (usually two) to get it to come off. Then I can use the front brake to stop it or just take off. Please note these characteristics occur when the bike is on level ground.

I had the bike on a rear wheel stand while installing the center stand, which helped since I had to remove the center stand several times to grind on a few rough areas which prevented the stand from closing all the way up to where the included rubber stopper attaches to the exhaust bracket.

If you can, elevate the rear wheel off of the center stand. Then open & close the stand, studying the areas of contact near the axis of rotation to see what areas are making contact to limit it’s range of movement. Not sure if you’ll want to do any grinding or not, but others have had to do some grinding on their Muph’s stand to get them to work. All in all though, mine does appear to be sturdy, but I wish I had not had to do so much work to it to get it to work properly. Seems like it was cut a bit rough.

Incidentally, that rubber bumper started cracking after a week, and then fell off. I replaced it with a portion of a rubber stopper I purchased at Ace Hardware, cut with a pocket knife to proper thickness and super glued to the stand itself instead of mounting it to the hot exhaust . So far, the heat doesn’t appear to penetrate to the other side to loosen it from the stand, and the rubber has not cracked. We’ll see how long that lasts.

As for the bolts, a couple of them look like they will work on either side, but they really don’t. For Instance the bolts that go through the aluminum spacers are the same diameter, but not the same length. Make sure to use the proper ones on each side. However, this may not be your problem. As mentioned, my problem wasn’t getting the stand to lock back when open. Rather, it with getting to to close up all the way to the included rubber bumper. I also have to grind on the left side centerstand leg, since my Richland Rick’s oversize kickstand foot on the sidestand was impacting it when closing the side stand, but that is another story.

I also painted mine with a couple spray cans of rubber undersealant coating I bought at Wal-Mart since others had commented that the stand can develop an outer coating of rust after a while.

Hope this helps.

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'06 DL650 Pearl Crystal Red

There is something wrong there. The instructions are on his website, that's where I got mine a couple of months ago. If you can't figure it out then there might be stand issues. They aren't all perfect and you can send it back and he will send you another.

Good Luck!!

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Just a follow-up:

Contacted Murph about the problem and he sent another kit out. I ended up using just two pieces from the replacement (the left side bracket and one bolt). The original had excessive weld around the spacer/stop which prevented the stand from travelling to it's maximum forward position on that side. When I had removed the original to mount the replacement and examine the paint, it clearly showed the interference. If I had a grinder, I probably could have cleaned it up myself. Other than a slightly misaligned set of spacers on the right side bracket, the rest of the original components were fine.

The reinstalled stand works exactly as expected, and I'm very happy with the manner that Murph's handled the problem. If you get one, the cord trick for spring installation really does work. See the YouTube install video.

found mine on youtube. came out great