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Tech. Advice: Series 'A' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
"A" Comet Side stand
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcus Bowden" data-source="post: 89043" data-attributes="member: 3287"><p>Like Peter says it all depends on wheel sizes and springs fitted. Years ago I turned up an elephants foot 2"long leaving it square on the bottom and recessed in the top with a long 1/4" whit Alan screw tapped up into the leg. That was OK for a few years until the Scandinavian jaunt when I had a series of front wheel punctures and a bearing seizure all in the front, getting the bike onto the rear stand is a real PIG single handed & loaded, so adopting the Indian center stand deployment method one puts out the side stand pulls the bike over even further, then leaning over by the kick starter pull out the center stand and stand bike upright . But to get at the rear stand is quite a task with panniers, top-box & fuel & oil tanks on an "A". Tying a bunggy on the stand bottom with a lot of tension to the gear leaver or as low as possible, leaning the bike over so much until the stand flicked forward as they lift the rear wheel more than 4", that trip it was done a couple more times consequently it's got quite a bow legged appearance, a second Petifer spring was fitted so required more height and a little more stability so a 5" x 2" x 1/4" thick aluminum checker plate was applied, keep promising myself that I will remove it and put it into the forge and straighten it out.</p><p> I certainly don't have the patients to carry a piece of custom made wood chock to bugger about with every time I parked, OK for a Sunday ride out to the pub park it have a beer/meal talk about it and ride home and it was only the wood that was the centre of conversation !</p><p>bananaman</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcus Bowden, post: 89043, member: 3287"] Like Peter says it all depends on wheel sizes and springs fitted. Years ago I turned up an elephants foot 2"long leaving it square on the bottom and recessed in the top with a long 1/4" whit Alan screw tapped up into the leg. That was OK for a few years until the Scandinavian jaunt when I had a series of front wheel punctures and a bearing seizure all in the front, getting the bike onto the rear stand is a real PIG single handed & loaded, so adopting the Indian center stand deployment method one puts out the side stand pulls the bike over even further, then leaning over by the kick starter pull out the center stand and stand bike upright . But to get at the rear stand is quite a task with panniers, top-box & fuel & oil tanks on an "A". Tying a bunggy on the stand bottom with a lot of tension to the gear leaver or as low as possible, leaning the bike over so much until the stand flicked forward as they lift the rear wheel more than 4", that trip it was done a couple more times consequently it's got quite a bow legged appearance, a second Petifer spring was fitted so required more height and a little more stability so a 5" x 2" x 1/4" thick aluminum checker plate was applied, keep promising myself that I will remove it and put it into the forge and straighten it out. I certainly don't have the patients to carry a piece of custom made wood chock to bugger about with every time I parked, OK for a Sunday ride out to the pub park it have a beer/meal talk about it and ride home and it was only the wood that was the centre of conversation ! bananaman [/QUOTE]
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