Put bike on centerstand

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Lol this thread started because one forum member was having issues putting his bike on the centerstand and had to have a neighbor come over and help him get it up. Funny thing is, I don't think he ever told us if he got it figured out. Hope so. He sure got plenty of advice in this thread lol.

Lol! I came on looking for the exact same question, as I’ve just test ridden one and tried ( and succeeded ) to put it on the centre stand. Not as easy as some but I managed. I thought I’d check for technique as there’s no obvious grab handle which would have helped.
Now what I really want to know is how do you get it off the centre stand as I didn’t try that!

Lol! I came on looking for the exact same question, as I’ve just test ridden one and tried ( and succeeded ) to put it on the centre stand. Not as easy as some but I managed. I thought I’d check for technique as there’s no obvious grab handle which would have helped.
Now what I really want to know is how do you get it off the centre stand as I didn’t try that!
Climb on. Start her up and engage first gear. Lean back so that rear wheel is grounded. Give it some beans and release the clutch. It will probably come off the stand...

Little known factoid: this is how Evel got his start. Yep, he got some big ideas from launching the bike up and off of the center stand when he was young. Next thing you know he's trying to leap the Snake River Canyon. It is a long-held belief that if the Skycycle X-2 actually had a center stand and Knievel had used the center stand launch technique (that Richard so eloquently described) to initiate the launch of the Skycycle X-2 itself, victory would have been his that day. But you didn't hear that from me, I preferred the look of the X-2 sans center stand myself.

Question: don't most people use the passenger grab bar behind the rear shock to grab hold of when righting the CB1100 on the center stand?