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Hope I don't get my self in trouble, but I thought I'd chime in with a couple of quick thoughts here...
One, if memory serves correctly the S-10 has some tie down points on either side of the rear platform area (or rear seat if you have it on) separate from the rear passenger grab rails. In other words, there are points to tie bags down on the rear area even if the grab rails are removed.
Two, and this is the one that's going to cause some controversy... But if you are trying to *LIFT* your bike onto the centerstand then you are doing something wrong. Even the heaviset bikes can literally be *jumped up* onto the centerstand, by the lightest and least stout people, without having to lift a thing. I was taught by an old, old hand the proper method when I was real young, and later when I was a Honda dealer used to demonstrate how to do it for Gold Wing customers - some who were literally scared of the centerstand because they were trying to *lift* the bike up - how to get a fully decked out Wing onto the centerstand *WITHOUT* using my right hand... Just my left hand on the left handlebar.
The trick is to *STAND DOWN* on the centerstand lever. That's actually why it's bent and angled the way it is on most bikes, to provide the necessary leverage to *lift* the bike up onto the centerstand. Certainly, it takes a bit of practice, and some confidence it works, but works it does. If you have a bike with a centerstand go out and try the following...
For your first time get the bike in neutral where the wheels are lined up and the bike can roll freely forward and backward. Place your left hand on the left handgrip and your right hand somewhere slightly aft of a line up from the centerstand pivot. For your first few times it helps if it is an area you can *LIGHTLY* grasp (not to lift hard). Face the left side of the motorcycle, place your left foot just in front of the line of the centerstand pivot, and use your right foot to rotate the centerstand down. Get *BOTH* pads of the centerstand on the ground and hold a bit of pressure with your right foot to keep it there. Make sure the wheels are aligned and then raise you body slightly and then as you start to come back down *STAND DOWN* firmly on the centerstand footpad/tang. You will notice the bike is rolling backward as this is happening, and you should help this along easily by pulling gently backwards with both your left hand on the bars and your right hand on wherever you have decided to grab, but don't *lift*... You don't need to.
It will feel awkward at first if you are used to grunting and straining to lift the bike onto the stand, but trust me... Keep working at it, thinking all the time of *STANDING DOWN* onto the centerstand, not lifting up. One time you'll get it and the bike will literally fly up onto the centerstand, and you'll be wondering what happened it will do it so fast and easy.
Once that happens you'll be snapping your bike up there more often than you ever did, and pondering why you fought it so much all that time. And once you get the hang of it you'll be putting the heaviest, most laden motorcycles up onto their centerstands with both hands on the handgrips, and with the ease of flipping down the sidestand.
Give it a try... And once you get it you'll never have to worry about grab handles, etc. again when it comes to using your centerstand.
Dallara
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