Modern Vespa

Lately my center stand has been sticking. Now that Florida is having it's best weather, it's time to get er done.

I think I've been hacked by Visual shopper. Anyone know how to get rid of it.
Edit: I fingered it out.

howdy, I had the tabs that the pin goes through break on mine and found the factory welds not to be welds but only tacks. so check those welds where the tabs connect on the round stock. on mine the tacks were on each side but there was no continuous weld. it did break so there is a factory problem on that center stand

ken

the tabs i'm talking about are in your picture two and are the ones going north out of sight

ken

edit, that was on my bv350 and that looks suspiciously like not the same center stand so either they changed them or that is not the stand from a bv350

My bv200 had a sticky one when I got it used. Had to flip it up with my foot.
I just squirted some light oil on it and that put it right.

Have you been lubing it when you change your oil?

No, I changed the oil 275 miles ago. I'm going to do this yearly, like I used to do to my ex-motorcycles swing arm. It's not that hard 8)

I just thought I'd revive this thread for all the new BV350 owners. 8 months and 2600 miles and it's time to service the center stand on Scoot Life. If any new owners are putting your bike up for winter, it would be a good time to do this.
It's easer to do this with help unless you have a spring installation method. I install the spring, then align the stand over the mounting hole. Be careful of the O-rings during alignment. Then I have someone put the bolt in while I hold it in place. They may have to tap it in with a hammer.
Don't just wipe grease on things and reinstall it. Fill the crankcase hole with grease so that when you push the rotating pin thru, a big blob of grease comes out(you want as much grease in there as possible. You don't need to put grease where the bolt enters the rotating pin. I use marine grease because it is made for use in a wet environment.

EXCELLENT write up, just the thing we like to see here. Thanks!

Pulled mine off today and cleaned it up. I'm speculating that a torn degrading gasket was the cause of mine hanging up as it seemed to happen overnight.
To get the springs on and off I used a piece of parachute chord tied in a loop about 4 inches in diameter then hooked it around the stand end of one of the two springs. I then inserted a bar through the chord placing the chord in the middle so I could use 2 hands to pull against the spring. I did the same with the second spring and they came on and off without to much fuss. After cleaning, greasing and replacing 1 gasket it's retracting like new.

Good info. I'm sure I'll end up putting it to good use eventually. Wish the MV search feature worked a little better for when I do.

Use Google, search something like
Modern Vespa BV350 center stand

If Piaggio had made a small channel for the grease from side to side of the pin, putting a grease gun on the support this problem would not have occurred.