Get a Harley!
Seriously, that's one thing that other brands could copy - a side-stand with a large 'foot', you rarely see a H-D stand sinking into soft ground like other brands do.
Loud and Uncouth
Get a Harley!
Seriously, that's one thing that other brands could copy - a side-stand with a large 'foot', you rarely see a H-D stand sinking into soft ground like other brands do.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
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I think the easiest thing to do is to rip up all that troublesome tar, and lay concrete instead. That stuff doesn't absorb bikes.
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Happened to my bike in November. Had to replace one mirror and the screen (found a 2nd hand "buy now" screen on ebay within 1 hour of the accident luckily). Cycle treads guy said why not chuck your glove under the stand if you are uncertain and don't have anything else handy.
Motorcycle songlist:
Best blast soundtrack:Born to be wild (Steppenwolf)
Best sunny ride: Runnin' down a dream (Tom Petty)
Don't want to hear ...: Slip, slidin' away, Caught by the Fuzz or Bam Thwok!(Paul Simon/Supergrass/The Pixies)
parting of the sensory
Neither of us sit on our bikes with the sidestand down.
Conicidentally, for the first time in many moons, both bikes are at work today, so I had another look. From the front, both bikes lean at the same angle, and the sidestands stick out at the same angle too. However, from the side, the CBR's stand comes forward more, and the CBR is lower. The area of each foot is retty much the same, but on the CBR is a rounded rectangle, and a slightly longer semi-triangular shape on the VFR. None of this suggests anything at all to account for it, so it may be that at the time there was another factor, such as one sidestand was in shadow, whereas the other was on asphalt in full sunlight. The other thing was my bike was already parked, whereas the CBR possibly parked on pre-heated asphalt. Dunno...
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Bite my shiney metal ass
Snap, my Ducati does that badly. After the bikeoi I though I wasn't going to be able to extract my bike from the road surface.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. -Samuel Johnson
Hardcore Biker
Emergency sidestand foot
1. Remove beer from fridge
2. Drink beer
3. Crush can so top and base line up
4. Place under sidestand
5. Does not work? Add more cans
gee wizzz
Theres a stand puck you can buy.-Looks like a tea cup coaster.
Problem will start to disapear as it gets cooler
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