I've been doing it for years with various bikes. Not had a sidestand break yet, some of my other bikes were much heavier than a SV.
Started out when me and my mates would balance the bike on it's front wheel and side stand while somebody lubed the chain. The balance point of a Z750 (1981 model) was found and we spent a drunken afternoon spinning it around my mates driveway, that bike never broke and the old Zed was no lightweight. The only injuries were hangovers and one pillock who sat on a hot barbeque grill, story for another time p'haps.
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