I keep on banging on about this, so sorry if you've read it before :) There's nothing hard about using a rear stand- cups or hooks, cheap or expensive, front handle or not. My bike's got no grabrail, but I never had any problems getting it up and down while on crutches, and not being allowed to take weight on my leg.

Here's how to make it easy... Stick something, a bit of wood or a half brick, under the stand. I use a half brick as the rear's jacked up, that might be too much for standard. This stands the bike close to vertical. That makes it simplicity itself to get the stand in place and lift. It's not about strength, or even balance, if you do it right neither of those comes into it.

Getting it down is where people go wrong. It's all about easy, slow movements. Bang it down and it will fall over. Here's how I do it.

First, make sure the stand's right down! If you're concerned about it popping up, you can bungee it to some handy piece of frame or a crash bung. Now, lower it of the stand very slowly, till the bike's on both wheels but still balancing on the stand. As long as you keep a small amount of pressure on the stand handle, as if you were going to lift the bike back up, it won't fall. I do this from directly behind the bike.

Now, right hand on the stand handle, move to the left side of the bike, at the rear. Left hand on the right hand side of the tail, legs against the left side. Now with your right hand, and possibly right leg to boot it, move the stand so it's no longer supporting the bike (mine doesn't come out easy, so I leave it in place but not lifting) The bike takes fingertip pressure to balance like this

Now just let it fall very, very slowly towards you (ie, to the left) until it's on the stand. And that's it.

If you do it in gear, or with the brake lashed on, you have evern more control.[/i]