850 Sidestamd

For reference, close up of the complete assembly as hack-sawed out of a 1973 850 with a silver cylinder and blue tank. RIP.

Do NOT Use Heat. Use the opposite forces that caused the bending Only. This area is a prop stand lug only to rest the motorcycle on. Do not put additional weight on the lug or prop ,kickstarting should be done off of any prop.

Beng, thanks for the excellent view of the weldment and assembly. (Didn't mean for you to cut up your bike just to show me that...haha) The tube looks round there, and there is the same slight bend in the arm that mine has. Therefore, I'm certain all the bending occurred at the frame tube.... not a good situation for attempting to bend back.

Torontonian, I agree. And that is what happened in the first place that caused the problem. I did often start the bike on the kickstand, and I was leaning on the bike with kickstand deployed when it went over. I learned the hard way when I was younger (which is often the case :roll: )

My issue was where the surfaces meet to stop when the stand is extended. The angle of the kickstand was increasing forward away from perpendicular to the side of the frame mounting. These point keep peening themselve when the stand is kicked open.

I welded up the surfaces and ground to reshape these mating areas. I should assume I will have to do this again sometime depending on how aggresive I am when kicking open the stand. I am thinking of a small hydraulic opener like on a trunk of a car instead of the spring. Maybe a release buttom and a buzzer when I forget that the damn thing is extended.

Lemmee know when someone like yerself figures out a buzzer-switch arrangement for taking off with sidestand extended. My Beemer uses the same idea but disables the starter. Definately a safety issue for the first left hander leanover and I suspect a few have wobbled/crashed over it. Yikes. :|

Torontonian said:

Lemmee know when someone like yerself figures out a buzzer-switch arrangement for taking off with sidestand extended. My Beemer uses the same idea but disables the starter. Definately a safety issue for the first left hander leanover and I suspect a few have wobbled/crashed over it. Yikes. :|

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Yah, a buddy I used to work with did that. I think he was on his Ducati (can't remember the model). He was limping around, asked him what happened, he said got on his bike and took off across a railroad crossing, attempted a left hand turn, and catapulted off to the right. Did some damage to the paintwork as well.

Larso1 said:

Torontonian said:

Lemmee know when someone like yerself figures out a buzzer-switch arrangement for taking off with sidestand extended. My Beemer uses the same idea but disables the starter. Definately a safety issue for the first left hander leanover and I suspect a few have wobbled/crashed over it. Yikes. :|

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Yah, a buddy I used to work with did that. I think he was on his Ducati (can't remember the model). He was limping around, asked him what happened, he said got on his bike and took off across a railroad crossing, attempted a left hand turn, and catapulted off to the right. Did some damage to the paintwork as well.

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The short, more vertical sidestands (commonly found on modern NON H-D bikes) are real killers when left deployed. The Commando long, horizontalish stand fold away nicely, unless you throw into the first turn violently

Another consideration re- bending the side stand is where itends up when it is not in use. It needs to tuck in up to the frame neatly. Depending on how it sits now you'd have to be careful how you'd bend it.