Installing Clip-Ons - Advice?

So I've officially removed my front fairing permanently from my xj600 (seca2). After riding around with it off, I found it much more enjoyable with no rattling.

I am looking into buying some clip-ons (On ebay here but can't figure out the easiest way to install them. I don't have a center stand or a bike stand, but heres what I was thinking.

Is it possible to use car jack stands to hold the bike up, but then use a car jack to lift it up to get the front end off the ground?

Or could I just put something under the bike to prevent it from falling too far down the forks, then loosen the triple trees and see how far down I need them to go to fit the handlebars on top.

I am in the process of buying a center stand off of a guy, but he's been telling me that he is going to remove it from his bike for the past 3 weeks. (hes trying to get rid of his bike as a parts bike, so I offered him a fair amount for just the centerstand, who knows if I'll actually get it or not).

Just for those of you mentioning clubmans, I was going to get them since they are much cheaper, but my roommate just got them and no matter how he adjusts them, he always hits the tank, and doesn't have full range of motion. And I don't want to have the same problem, I want to maintain the full range of motion.

Any other advice on all this?

 

lifting the forks that far is going to change the handling of the bike
i think it takes some of the high speed stability and makes it dive into turns faster
might want to drop the triple clamps and try it with the bars you have now
see if you like it first

 

You could use the high rise clipons and leave the forks alone. Just mount them under the triple tree.

 

Well, its no worries now. I finally found a centerstand for my bike. Granted it is located in the UK and shipping was almost as much as the item itself, it still was worth it in my opinion.

When I get the clip-ons, I'll probably just install them below the triple-tree and not worry about dive and all that suspension stuff.

 

If you're mounting them below the tree then you can just take the top tree off, slide em on and there you go!

Otherwise, I used car stands. NO JACK.

I have crash bars, so all I did was put it on the sidestand, put a stand under the right side crash bar, tip the bike onto it, put another one inder the centrestand side, tip, raise the other, etc... did this a couple times (on my own) and there ya go, front end off the ground.

Then loosen all the bolts, nos so far that they just fall out, and push em up to where they need to be to mount the clipon's... If you have aftermarked headlight ears like I do you'll need to do em at the same time, but if you are running the stock setup you can go one at a time, super easy.


As far as handling changes, try it out. If you don't like it, change it.
Personally I found a slight improvement, not the drastic changes that everyone seems to worry about (however I did lower the rear of my bike 1 inch, which may have assisted in the stability).