Hugo: you missed only one part of the rear stand routine. If you don't get the position of your right leg correct, succeding the rupture-inducing heave, just as the strain comes off, the tailpipe performs a neat circular biopsy on your shin, on the bit where all the nerve endings live. Now the bike is on the stand, but you aren't going to be able to walk for several minutes, or even think, until the pain ebbs. Don't tell me about childbirth. I KNOW what pain is.
My Dave Hills stand was the same initially as yours: went on easy but a gust of wind from behind and it would roll right back off again. Breaking a lifetime's rule I did things properly, took it completely off, and took a hacksaw to it, and sawed 1/8" off the stop. Virtue having its own reward, albeit sporadically, it was not much more difficult to deploy, but required a deliberate shove to, er, undeploy.
That said, considering that not only are no two Vincents the same, but no ONE Vincent is the same, Dave gets astonishingly close first time.
My Dave Hills stand was the same initially as yours: went on easy but a gust of wind from behind and it would roll right back off again. Breaking a lifetime's rule I did things properly, took it completely off, and took a hacksaw to it, and sawed 1/8" off the stop. Virtue having its own reward, albeit sporadically, it was not much more difficult to deploy, but required a deliberate shove to, er, undeploy.
That said, considering that not only are no two Vincents the same, but no ONE Vincent is the same, Dave gets astonishingly close first time.