Patent ID: 8371598

Claim:
A motorcycle stand, comprising: a base; a pair of support members connected to and extending outward from the base; each support member has an adjustable bracket connected thereto by a hex head screw, and wherein the adjustable brackets include a u-shaped portion and a support plate perpendicularly connected to one end of the u-shaped portion, the u-shaped portion includes two elongated rectangular shaped members spaced apart from and parallel to one another to permit a threaded portion of the hex head screw to slide there-through for engagement with a threaded portion in the support member; wherein the loosening of the hex head screw permits the adjustable bracket to slide laterally towards or away from each other, the improvement comprising: a leverage device positioned between a portion of the hex head screw and the adjustable bracket, the leverage device being defined to include: a device head; a device arm extending from the device head; side walls around peripheries of the device head and device arm to form an enclosed head space around a portion of the device head and to form a channel along the device arm; and the enclosed head space having an interior wall profile shaped to engage against an exterior surface of a portion of the hex head screw, such that rotation of the enclosed head space will rotate the hex head screw.