Re: Centerstand Dynamics 101

["Leatherbiker" <leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you ever take a ferry, watch the bikes that are parked (and
even lashed down) while on centrestands.
It's frightening to see how easily they sway. Even on the road,
I wouldn't use the centrestand for anything that couldn't be
shown to be level with a spirit-level. It just frightens me too
much to think of some yobbo leaning against it.
I use a round piece of aluminium with a hollow in the middle
that I bought for just pence off a caravan site shop - caravans
use these discs to stop the stabilizers going into soft ground.
You can get round plastic things now with a square in the middle
to keep the sidestand from straying.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Schulster <Schulster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Centerstand Dynamics 101


> That makes sense to me; I have passed quite a number of bikes
lying on their sides in the middle of summer on
motorway/freeways in Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland - as
soon as the centrestand is on anything other than perfectly
flat, very hard tarmac the risk of it sinking in over time is
not small :(    At least on the ST, as long as you park it
'uphill' or use 1st gear for 'down pointing' the sidestand is
great.  After all it makes a triangle about 1.45m on each side,
and most of the weight is still on the two large rubber
thingies.  A small 'plastic foot' for the sidestand and you can
park it on mud with no worries.  A centrestand is very useful
for oiling the chain, but other than that I would not miss it
much.
> Jonathan.
>
> >>> "Leatherbiker" <leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx> 09/09/99
23:17:58 >>>
> Neil.
>
> I'm kind of surprised at your theory.
> Accepted wisdom in the biking world is that the sidestand is
> much more stable, especially on ferries (I could write a whole
> book on that topic!), hills, unstable ground etc., as the bike
> is already leaning at maximum tilt in one direction and cannot
> go any further in that dimension. To topple the bike, you
would
> then have to raise it to the vertical and push it over in the
> opposite direction, which takes considerably more doing.
> I hardly ever use my centre stand, except for filling the fuel
> tank, these days.
>
> Tim
>
>
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