The weight is lower, and also you have wide platforms/footpegs that the bike leans onto.  You can always get big hoop bars fitted - then it won't go past 45 degrees at all!
This is always funny to me when people demonstrate picking up a heavy bike using a 1250GS. Sure - that thing has half a meter of cylinder heads and guards sticking out in each direction, between those and the soft luggage, it's barely past the sidestand angle!  Now show me a small person picking up a 1290 Adventure without bags...
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