• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Longer kickstand

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tamara
  • Start date Start date
bwringer said:
There's a guy on the V-Strom forum who welded an old sprocket to his kickstand in a similar way.

If you're not into hockey pucks, any chunk of steel welded or bolted to the kickstand would work to make the "foot" of the kickstand a little taller, and it's a lot safer than cutting the kickstand in the middle and welding in an extension -- if the weld or bolt breaks, you still have a kickstand.

Before you get too far, make sure your kickstand bolt is in good shape -- I've seen a couple of bikes leaning way too far over simply because the bolt was about to fall out. Also make sure the kickstand and its frame bracket aren't bent or cracked.
Click to expand...

Those are good pointers. Once hubby puts it on the center stand, I can get a closer look at the state of affairs.
 
My steel heel was just a scrap bit of 1/8" wall square tube. Used a big hammer to shape it so it fit on the kickstand better, welded on a bottom plate, then welded the heel to the kickstand. Presto a steel heel. I`ll try and find a picture later tonight. Its crude but very effective.
 
Tamara said:
I'll have hubby put it up on the center stand for me and take a look.
Click to expand...


Hey now, you need to learn how to do that!:p A lady friend I used to ride with had bought a fairly new BMW R1100S I believe, said she couldn't get it up on the center stand. The guy who owned the dealership wouldn't let her ride off until she got it up on the centerstand by herself. She learned the trick.
 
Last edited:
mrbill5491 said:
Hey now, you need to learn how to do that!:p A lady friend I used to ride with had bought a fairly new BMW R1100S I believe, said she couldn't get it up on the center stand. The guy who owned the dealership wouldn't let her ride off until she got it up on the centerstand by herself. She learned the trick.
Click to expand...

I've had the bike since 1985 and everyone has told me every trick in the book to get it up on the center stand and demonstrated them. Every single trick seems to involve being taller than 5' 1 1/2" and weighing more than 100 pounds.

The BMW salesman would have lost the sale if he tried that with me. The Suzuki salesman demonstrated how to put the bike up on the stand and then said with my size, it would be safer to have someone else do it for me.
 
Tamara said:
I've had the bike since 1985 and everyone has told me every trick in the book to get it up on the center stand and demonstrated them. Every single trick seems to involve being taller than 5' 1 1/2" and weighing more than 100 pounds.

The BMW salesman would have lost the sale if he tried that with me. The Suzuki salesman demonstrated how to put the bike up on the stand and then said with my size, it would be safer to have someone else do it for me.
Click to expand...

Hmmm, maybe cutting the center stand down just a bit might work for ya? Have your hubby set it up and measure how much space you between the bottom of the rear tire and the ground. You might be able to shave an inch or so off and make it easier to at least get it up. Sometimes you just need the stability of the center stand offers parking in some places.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top