Review: Tommy Jack

I have received my 'Tommy Jack' I bought from eBay few days ago.

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It's idea was good but is it really useful? It depends.

I have a kinda shiny/slippery garage floor, so, when I use the Tommy Jack to lift my rear wheel, the side tends to SKID AWAY from me and it wouldn't lift the rear wheel.

I ended up had to put a large enough cardboard that is long enough for both the side stand and the rear wheel are on it.

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There was another problem is that the 'swing arm support rod' as I call it, was a bit too long that it would sometimes touch the rear rotor and I had a few sketches on it when I wasn't used to using that stand.

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The stand was not too expensive, so, decide yourself if this is a good investment.

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P.S. I would never change my tyre on that stand.

I'm not crazy about it -- I guess the advantage over the rear wheel stand is portability. I think retail is ~$60 and I think you can get an ok rear stand for that price. But this is probably easier to take on a trip.

Slips on a smooth garage floor? not good. But if you're on the road, the parking lot is probably not smooth so it's probably ok for that.

I guess for FZ6, you can remount your center stand (if done loosely, doesn't take too long) instead of getting a rear stand. I'm assuming you removed your center stand as I did (when I had my FZ6). But again, lugging that heavy center stand is not as easy as bring this little gadget.

I think the advertisements just talk about chain lubing and not wheel removal. I'm with you -- I wouldn't remove my rear wheel using that thing.

Hopefully, you got a good price on ebay -- so use it a couple of times to lube the chain and you've gotten the value out of it.

Dennis