I just bought some bike stands but my 04 f4I doesn't have factory holes for the spools. I was wondering where to drill the holesor if its a good idea to drill into the aluminum swingarm and will it weaken it.

 

I dunno what the big deal is about spools. Just get a universal stand and up it goes...

 

A stand with spools is much more solid and secure.... I've seen some people on here take their swing arms off and send them to Pit Bull to have some mounts welded on, but that seems like a bunch of work to me. Pit Bull also makes these inserts that you can put in your swing arm. Personally, I wouldn't drill my swing arm, and I wouldn't take it off either...guess I'm either stuck without them or I need to get a new bike.

 

i took mine off sent them to a buddy had them tiged and there it is. Plus i made all of it myself on a bridgeport so im sure no one else has them cost me a whopping nothing to get it all done

 

if you dont want to weld them on, which means you will have to repaint.

then you can drill them and put in tapped inserts. I dont feel like doing the search for you, but if you go to another cbr forum and look for a guy by the name of sebspeed, he did his.

 

I had the tabs from Pit-Bull welded on, wouldn't have it any other way
drilling always seemed like a bad idea to me but whatever

I didn't paint mine, its underneath the swingarm and not really even noticable but you could easily paint it black without doing the entire swingarm all over again (you can hardly see it)