Time to Lose Some Weight! - Center Stand Failure

[mcgovern61]

Well, there I was, rocking the bike to try to get off the center stand to go for a ride and suddenly......she leans over to the right and the stand goes forward! :shock:

Well, I thought taking the fairing off help reduce the weight but apparently I needed to lose the weight!! (I obviously overloaded the bike with that last burger!!) :hihihi:

Picked the bike up a bit to get it to roll forward off the stand. (Now I really am glad I took the fairing off!) My poor bike.......that sitting outside in the New Jersey Pine Barrens for 12 years before I got her must have taken it's toll on the frame at the center stand. I looked under and it is ripped clean off the frame. :crying: Looks like it is saw zaw time!

 

[joedrum]

oh boy ... make sure brakr spring lever is in good operation Gerry its where that hooks up also

 

[brianinpa]

I keep looking at mine and wondering when or if that is going to happen to me. So far it looks and sounds solid, but one can never know for sure.

 

[pidjones]

I cut the center stand mount off of the Hunley with a high-speed air grinder and cutoff wheel. I'll make a portable lever-type stand for it out of tubing some day for the garage and possible showing that will cradle it on the same tube, but rely on itself for locking in position. I use the center stand on my 1800 quite often in the garage to leave a little more space around it. I never park it outside on the center stand, as the vast majority of 1800s blown over by wind were on their center stand. Also those that sank into asphalt.

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[brianinpa]

pidjones » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:54 am[/url]":11latm7b]
I cut the center stand mount off of the Hunley with a high-speed air grinder and cutoff wheel. I'll make a portable lever-type stand for it out of tubing some day for the garage and possible showing that will cradle it on the same tube, but rely on itself for locking in position. I use the center stand on my 1800 quite often in the garage to leave a little more space around it. I never park it outside on the center stand, as the vast majority of 1800s blown over by wind were on their center stand. Also those that sank into asphalt.

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I had never heard that before, but with all that extra wind break material, it makes sense. There just aren't enough holes for the wind to blow through like on the oldWings.