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Gary Bennett · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: Adding a Puck to your Sidestand

Late last year somebody suggested that an Ice Hockey Puck is the right thickness and best compound to add to the bottom of your sidestand so the bike stands up straighter. The only problem according to this person was that it interfered with the Centre Stand.

I have had a timber block mounted under the Side Stand for the last couple of years. I spent a few hours carefully shaping it so that it didn't interfere with the Centre Stand. It was orginally intended to be a temporary measure just to see if it would work and then I would find a more suitable material to use at a later date.

After hearing about the Puck suggestion, I thought that it would be ideal as it is "black" in colour, is a dense rubber material and was exactly the right thickness. I cut and shaped the Puck using the Timber one I made a couple of years before as a template and mounted it on the bottom of the Side Stand and it is now PERFECT.

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The photo below was taken with a flash and thats why it looks weird, I included this photo because it shows the profile a bit clearer and also because it was taken from the other side.

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A few years ago I made a Rear wheel bike stand which allows me to have the bike sitting at ride height with both the Centre Stand and Side Stands up. This allowed me to shape the original timber block so that the Side and Centre Stands would not touch each other when both are folded up.
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'94 K1100RS

Adrian · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

Have you got a photo of it in place? I can't workout which way round it would fit!
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Gary Bennett · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

Can do.
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'94 K1100RS

Gary Bennett · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

The photos don't show enough to help with the angles.

Photo taken from the rear with the centre stand down and side stand retracted.

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The best way to start is drill two holes in your side stand big enough to put the two screws through to secure the Puck to the side stand. Then put the Puck on the ground and rest the side stand on it and drill two holes in the Puck through the two holes previously drilled in the side stand, just big enough two screw two self tappers into. When this is done and the Puck is secured to the side stand, run a pen or a scriber around the perimeter of the Puck, then unscrew the Puck off the side stand and mark on the top of the Puck between the two screw holes which direction is the front of the bike.

Using a vice to hold the Puck and a Hacksaw, cut off all the excess around the pen mark made on the top of the Puck. Screw the Puck back onto the side stand.

From here on it will get fiddly, you will need to get someone else to hold the bike up while the Puck is slowly trimmed away on most sides so that the centre stand and side stands can be lowered and raised individually without interfering with each other. Don't take too bigger pieces off with each cut, just take your time and have patients. When it is finished, sand the puck with some sandpaper to remove all the Hacksaw cut marks.

View taken from rear.

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View taken from rear and slighly to the side.

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View taken from front and slightly to the side.

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'94 K1100RS

owrstrich · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

fine job there gary bennett...

i gotts a parking puck that i carry with me... just plop it on the ground and put the side stand down on it if the asphalt is questionable on a hot day...

http://parkingpuck.com

i screwed it on just to take these photos in case anyone was going to score on of these thinking they were gonna screw it on permanently...

it can stay on permanently but you have to put the center stand down and up first... then the center stand dawn and up second... i dont think these pucks were meant to stay on permanently...

side stand down...

center stand down... side stand up...

center stand up 1st then side stand up...

side stand up 1st then center stand up...

so gary bennett... you have done well...

j o
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Klinker · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

BlackHoof · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject:

I also was the recipiant of Mr. O's largesse. Thanks for the Puck Johnny,
there I said it...

By the by J.O. I tried to return the favor by sending you a Duluth Trading
Co. hat for you noggin, but it came back. Apparently your Stanford
college address is just for fun...

Pucks + Sidestands = No more unusual lean angles!!
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