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Issue with my kickstand's footlever

MrMorrisSD

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I've been noticing lately that my bike's kickstand lever is getting floppy. Seems it's mounted with some kind of rubber bushings or padding of some kind around the mounting bolts (for some reason). My bushings or whatever have disintegrated and left the foot lever kind of lose and hanging down out of position slightly. You can see shreds of what's left of the rubber piece in the pic below.

In fact I've caught my pant leg on it a couple of times. Pulling to a stop, there's nothing like like having your left foot hanging in the air when it should be on the ground to make you think "OH Sh!t"

Anyone else dealt with this problem before? Are there some parts I should order? Or is there a home fix that works well?
 

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Yep, been dealing with this gizmo before on my G12.
I replaced the disintegrated rubber with soft plastic from a car chin spoiler which happened to be the right thickness, lol.
I went ahead and did the same thing with my G11 as a prevention thing.
 
I got really tired of dragging mine on the ground in left turns. Eventually, It started to strip the aluminum threads, and one day it just broke off in a canyon, and it's been that way ever since.

the only downside is you have to get your toe underneath the kickstand to pull it out. Otherwise, much better in every way.

-Clam
 
Spaceclam said:
I got really tired of dragging mine on the ground in left turns. Eventually, It started to strip the aluminum threads, and one day it just broke off in a canyon, and it's been that way ever since.

the only downside is you have to get your toe underneath the kickstand to pull it out. Otherwise, much better in every way.

-Clam
Yeah I don't know why the factory decided to make that thing wiggly the way they did. Some Harleys have similar protrusions on their kickstands but they're just welded on and work fine, I'm sure.

So you live in Chatsworth? Any vids online of you dragging your stand on that famous bend, the one up on Mulholland? That one guy Rnickey_mouse seems to have captured every bike that's ever ridden it.
 
Best I got.

You can see how that kickstand wire thingy would be a problem
 

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