had a magor job on my bike which is a 1986 honda goldwing sei aspincade 1200cc , yes it heavy and the rear tyre had to be changed for new so had to be removed in garage by myself an engineer of 51 years , to do this the bike had to be lifted at least 5 inches of ground and all or most of the panier boxes near side was removed then number plate and rear half of mud gaurd, on mine its fully dressed with chrome light trim that goes around the sides and rear .. yes you tube was not to helpfull and service book for this useless , placed under the sump of the engine in front of main stand the platform was evenly suppoting the bike it raised easy by the box spanner then i secured it with straps x3 to stop it from moving it then took 4 hrs to remove the wheel as the exhausts was on same alignment as the axle bolt removing the shocks from swing arm allowed me to lift this higher and to remove the shaft over the pipes the wheel then came off easy and rolled out of the rear with a little wiggling tyre replaed and it gave me time to fully service the drive shaft and diff unit cleaned all and polished chrome work like new again refitted all componats in reverde order ready for test drive and a 100 mile run in for both tyres . i lowered the bike with main stand down so it landed solid to floor the removed the straps . big job out ofthe way good for another 10k miles .
jimtom31 
André Roberts 
