On my return to the UK to reconfigure the XT600E and to dump a load of stuff which I had bought which was unecessary (would have been stuck in belgium until friday anyway).

I got a puncture on the motorway , I fixed this by laying the bike down on its side undoing everything popping a new tube in and going on my merry way...

It seems kind of clandestine though , but there was no other option no centre stand and big rocks aren't common on the M6 either and thus when I got home I discovered I could wedge a hammer (with a rubberised handle) under the swing arm to prop up the rear wheel and also the same hammer under the bash plate to undo the front wheel.

Does anybody have any more elegant solutions to this rather than laying it on the side or taking a fairly beefy hammer, and on thta thought how well does the side stand cope with this? , my NTV could easily take this , so could my CBR, the XT I don't know. With my solution to this being to take two hammers to take the strain off the side stand completely which is even less elegant and weighs more.

Don't want a centre stand as they reduce ground clearance and at £150 seem to be bad value for money.

I've considered a bottle jack which weighs 2.3 kilos which can go right under the centre of the bash plate , but its bulky and the hammers have secondary uses ie hammering in pegs into hard ground , and can work as an impromptu bead breaker.

Any thoughts?

Ta

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