kick stand

[dna9656]

I'm 5'7", I wear 30" inseam pants. Standing the bike up when straddling the seat is hard for me to do. Is there a LONGER kickstand available that would hold the bike a little closer to the vertical available? Can I weld an extension to the stand?

Is the kick stand made of forged steel (I don't know if forged steel can be safely welded...) or steel that can be easily welded?

Edited May 2, 2014 by dna9656

[Flyinfool]

What pressures are you running in your shocks, front and rear?

The higher the air pressure the more the bike will lean on the side stand.

 

Check the bolt that the side stand pivots on. They have been known to bend and break, allowing you to practice you technique for picking the bike up off the ground. If that bolt is getting ready to go the bike will lean farther. It is also not that uncommon for the top of the side stand to get bent allowing more lean.

 

I also have a 30" inseam and I was thinking of cutting some off of my side stand to get more lean. I have to lean the bike to the right with a lot of weight on my right foot to get the side stand up.

[dna9656]

What pressures are you running in your shocks, front and rear?

The higher the air pressure the more the bike will lean on the side stand.

 

Check the bolt that the side stand pivots on. They have been known to bend and break, allowing you to practice you technique for picking the bike up off the ground. If that bolt is getting ready to go the bike will lean farther. It is also not that uncommon for the top of the side stand to get bent allowing more lean.

 

I also have a 30" inseam and I was thinking of cutting some off of my side stand to get more lean. I have to lean the bike to the right with a lot of weight on my right foot to get the side stand up.

 

I don't understand why you would want to increase the lean. It's ALL I can do to stand the bike up from the angle it's at now. I need the bike closer to vertical so it's less far to get the bike up. I run max pressure on the suspension, I will try the MEDIUM pressure today. Thanks! Also I heard about running a lower profile tire size to lower the bike a bit; that's sounds like a good idea but you have to watch your speedo because it'll read high...I wish I wrote the size down....The bolt hole on the side stand is striped, there is a lock nut on the bolt that's in good shape though. Nothing there is bent; I just cleaned and lubed the thing!

[Peder_y2k]

Hey shorty..... keep in mind that if you lower the shock air pressure, the bikes sits lower AND makes it much more difficult to get it up on the centerstand. High pressure shock = easy-up centerstand.

-Pete, in Tacoma WA USA

[Flyinfool]

I don't understand why you would want to increase the lean. It's ALL I can do to stand the bike up from the angle it's at now. I need the bike closer to vertical so it's less far to get the bike up. I run max pressure on the suspension, I will try the MEDIUM pressure today. Thanks! Also I heard about running a lower profile tire size to lower the bike a bit; that's sounds like a good idea but you have to watch your speedo because it'll read high...I wish I wrote the size down....The bolt hole on the side stand is striped, there is a lock nut on the bolt that's in good shape though. Nothing there is bent; I just cleaned and lubed the thing!

 

Mine is so close to vertical that I could tip it over onto the right side with one finger. It would not take much of a wind to tip it over.

[Venturous Randy]

With the bike on the center stand, how much play is there at the end of the side stand? You should not have more than 1/8th inch. If you have more than that, you WILL have problems at some time with breaking something. It sounds like someone has already had problems with the side stand and I suspect that is where your problems are.

This is a good time to again warn everyone to check their side stand for not having too much play because I will tell you that it is not much fun to be on a trip and have a problem with your side stand. You think it is difficult to handle your bike now, try getting off and on without a side stand.

RandyA

Edited May 3, 2014 by Venturous Randy

[dna9656]

With the bike on the center stand, how much play is there at the end of the side stand? You should not have more then 1/8th inch. If you have more than that, you WILL have problems at some time with breaking something. It sounds like someone has already had problems with the side stand and I suspect that is where your problems are.

This is a good time to again warn everyone to check their side stand for not having too much play because I will tell you that it is not much fun to be on a trip and have a problem with your side stand. You think it is difficult to handle your bike now, try getting off and on without a side stand.

RandyA

 

It looks pretty good, a very slight widening of the "ears" on the frame, I learned that you can't bent the "ears" on the stand very far. Don't ask....

I'm taking the now broken leg to a guy I know to see if we can use it to extend the one I'm using now OR drill a couple holes in the foot of the good stand and screw a 1.5" piece of some kind of stock on to it, formed to look like the original foot. I like that solution best, I have all I need except the stock.

Right now I have a scrap of 2"X4" tethered to the bike with weed whacker string and bungeed to the handle above the tape player, when I park I'll get off, put the block under the stand, when I ride I'll warm the motor, get on the bike, stand it up, pull up the block, roll my weed whacker tether around the block of wood and bungee it back to the handle located above the tape player!

How smart! Cant spell ingenius....

!

Edited May 6, 2014 by dna9656