Topic: Lowered – Kickstand

[coolmaven]

Wondering if anyone can make sense of this… I lowered my cb750 k4 café conversion a couple of inches (shorty shocks in the rear & -2” fork tubes). I did read that I would need to modify my kickstand in order to address the reduced height. However, the bike seemed to lean at a pretty sufficient angle without the alteration – in my opinion. A week ago I ran into a scraping (kickstand to road) issue on a sharp turn and right away set out to address the stand. I found a used “shorter” CB350 kickstand. Much to my surprise, the stand was the same size as what was on my bike. That explained the proper lean angle. What was strange was that my kickstand was curved (see pic).  The curve is what I attribute to the scrapping as it sits lowered to the ground in the tucked position.

I’m assuming the previous owner incorrectly replaced the kickstand – but why the curve?

[MCRider]

Curving them is often the shortcut to shortening it for lowered bikes. More or less effective. Not original.

[Elan]

In my less knowledgeable day, I was moving a cb500 in a boxtruck. I put it on its sidestand and strapped it to the wall. All went fine but afterwards I realized the shaking of the truck actually bent the kickstand, just like you have pictured.

[bjbuchanan]

Yeah that stand is either bent purposely or accidentally

[coolmaven]

In my less knowledgeable day, I was moving a cb500 in a boxtruck. I put it on its sidestand and strapped it to the wall. All went fine but afterwards I realized the shaking of the truck actually bent the kickstand, just like you have pictured.

Wow - I would have thought that the mounting bracket welded to the frame would have bent before this chunk of metal would.

[Don R]

Sometimes the mount does rip off.

[bjbuchanan]

The mount "can" rip off or tweak but the leveraged force is being applied to the kickstand. The mount is the fulcrum and as such in the situation is seeing less force comparably to any point on the kickstand. The farther out from the weights center the greater the force acting on the part so your kickstand bends.

The mount will tear or break from rusting of the lower tubes more commonly