Main Stand - Yes or No ? - Page 2

**davidlomax** · #16 4 Mar 2003

Just use a swing arm prop, less hassle, less cost, less weight!

Dave

**FredXTZ** · #17 4 Mar 2003

We're going to the Raid de l'Amitié in Morocco [anyone else?] end of April. I've just modified a household tool stick, the superlight aluminium type. Sawn to the correct size and plugged with plastic it's a perfect traveller emergency wheel-remove-stand. Weighs a fraction of a center stand and doesn't scrape off the terrain. Have you seen the recent P-D? The scene where they try to flatten the beach track in Spain with their center stands?

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Fred, XTZ660, Holland.

**cabron** · #18 4 Mar 2003

fred

please tell me more about your invention. do you have a picture of it/dimensions? sounds good and i'd like to know more!

thanks
cabron

**FredXTZ** · #19 5 Mar 2003

I don't have a picture but all you would see was a piece of an aluminium broomstick. Just go to the kitchen [or wherever she keeps them] and you'll see. Usually the plastic plugs are there too, otherwise use a piece of wood or even a cork, preferably from a bottle of Porto. Saw it to a little more than the distance from the ground to your rear axle. Just put the bike on the side stand and stick the stick under the swingarm on the right side.

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Fred, XTZ660, Holland.

**david lambeth** · #20 6 Mar 2003

Hi all
Mainstands - basically 3 types
1- early narrow kick models
2-late electric start models
3-late elec...but shorter for smaller 17 inch rear wheel.
2&3 are 10mm wider (so could fit with 5mm spacers onto the type 1 bikes)

David Lambeth