'78 R100/7 Side stand factory bends

[ME 109]

After many years of needing specific terrain to use my oe sidestand, and the fact that the foot had nearly worn off, I decided it was time for surgery.
Repairs to the top of the stand where it connects to the framne, 3/4" longer and a bigger foot.
Now it is totally usable when my bike is fully loaded.

The oe stand has the ability to allow a rider to ride off with the stand down, and retract without tipping the rider off.
Not sure if the other aftermarket stands can do this?

[Snakeoil]

Although I might get mud and worse flung at me for saying this, in my experience, the best side stand that was ever made and still is, is the standard Harley stand used on their big twins. It swings out easily, locks in position once the bike weight is on it. You could park the bike facing down hill and the stand will not fold up. Sure, it might skitter down the blacktop as the weight of the bike carries is down the hill. But it will still be standing when it gets to the bottom.

I stared at my /7 for a long time trying to figure out how/where to mount a HD type stand. But it just does not lend itself to that stand and it's large mount.

HD has a patent on that stand. My understanding is that the design was actually given to them by someone well known from back in the day. Can't remember who.

I had one bike roll off a stand. A 305 Honda scrambler, which has a stand very similar to the /7 design. My own fault. Moved the bike out of the barn to do something and never even thought about it being on a slight incline. Took a few minutes, but over she went and bent an original clutch lever. Grrrrrr.

Almost dropped the /7 last summer picking up chicken at a FD BBQ. Parked the bike to pay and the issue caused by the metric tires was exacerbated by a slight pitch to the right at that spot in the parking lot. I got off the bike and just as I backed away it started to go over and I caught it before it reached the point of no return. My neighbor was watching and just chuckled as he said good catch. It would have fallen into a car that was waiting in line for their chicken and the guy behind the wheel had eyes like two fried eggs when he saw that bike coming towards his shiny late model econobox.

I think I'm going to put inch sized tires on the bike in a few weeks. Tires on it are good from a wear POV, but are pretty old as they were on the bike when I got it last year and it had not been registered in quite a few years, maybe even 10.

Need to search inch tires here for recommendations. I've always put K70's on my Brits. But there may be a better alternative with a more modern profile.

regards,
Rob