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<blockquote data-quote="Mike T" data-source="post: 155710" data-attributes="member: 3314"><p>Hi Mark, I bent the little piece that stops the stand moving further forward when the bike is on the main stand. It was interesting to see. There is a very strong little 'L' shaped steel piece that is welded to the main left-hand plate. I believe the root cause is that I may have filed too much off the top of the stand to begin with. So combining that with my heavy kick starts (another issue to be resolved) while straddling the bike, it actually buckled the "L" piece. It didn't break and the welds held, but it bent significantly. It was quite surprising. And of course, the more I kicked and applied more downward force on the stand to the little bracket, the more it bent and the stand leaned further forward. I had begun to notice that it was getting harder to lift the bike on and off the stand and I'm very grateful for the guys who pointed it out on one of my videos. In this recent video, I'm testing the stand again after my friend Geoff built up the top of the stand with quite a lot of weld and another angle piece for reinforcement. It still needed more work and I've done some more filing since, but not too much this time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike T, post: 155710, member: 3314"] Hi Mark, I bent the little piece that stops the stand moving further forward when the bike is on the main stand. It was interesting to see. There is a very strong little 'L' shaped steel piece that is welded to the main left-hand plate. I believe the root cause is that I may have filed too much off the top of the stand to begin with. So combining that with my heavy kick starts (another issue to be resolved) while straddling the bike, it actually buckled the "L" piece. It didn't break and the welds held, but it bent significantly. It was quite surprising. And of course, the more I kicked and applied more downward force on the stand to the little bracket, the more it bent and the stand leaned further forward. I had begun to notice that it was getting harder to lift the bike on and off the stand and I'm very grateful for the guys who pointed it out on one of my videos. In this recent video, I'm testing the stand again after my friend Geoff built up the top of the stand with quite a lot of weld and another angle piece for reinforcement. It still needed more work and I've done some more filing since, but not too much this time! [/QUOTE]
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