Stiff Side Stand

[pmapp]

Originally Posted by chazzyb

Good point. Nowadays, I wear eye protection when dealing with stand springs. I read of someone loosing an eye when the pliers they were gripping the spring with and pulling hard on, lost their grip...

Aye, 'twas very near really - less than 1 cm I guess.

When the missus saw the blood she didn't ask if I was OK, instead she told me off 'cause I could spoil the wedding photos

Now the silly thing is, as I was laid under the bike doing it - I was thinking to myself "hmmm, this isn't really a good idea................twaaaaaang".

Originally Posted by pmapp

Aye, 'twas very near really - less than 1 cm I guess.

When the missus saw the blood she didn't ask if I was OK, instead she told me off 'cause I could spoil the wedding photos

Now the silly thing is, as I was laid under the bike doing it - I was thinking to myself "hmmm, this isn't really a good idea................twaaaaaang".

Take heart from the following.

In my youth I was removing the centre stand from a Suzuki GS750 (big heavy lumbering beast) one day because it was grounding on corners. I had to crawl under the bike and hammer the spindle out because they always get a bit stiff being in such an exposed position. A few good clouts with a 4lb lump hammer saw it moving nicely, and an old screwdriver on the inside edge of flanged end getting a few clouts had it well on its way. Right at the point when the spindle flew free across the workshop I realised why it was so tight... I was doing the job with the bike on the centrestand I had just knocked the spindle out of and I was right underneath it.

As pure luck would have it the bike fell away from me and didn't crush my head or body. The roll-cage (crash bars) took the damage and all I had to replace was the clutch lever

Wish I'd read this thread before I'd just sprayed said side-stand with WD40 ... d'oh!
Oh well, think I'll take the approach of just washing it down thoroughly and then spraying some grease onto it instead