Riding my BMW again....

[sabre2]

To-morrow(2nd July) will be the forth year since breaking my femur in a skydiving incident. I can now ride the BMW rt again,So the nasty Yamaha XV535 V!agra has been sold. It's difficult moving the BMW about in and out of my garage,and I cannot put it onto the centre stand unaided....BUT I CAN RIDE IT ! Great to be on a proper bike at last....I may be having joint replacement(hip/knee) in the future but I'll face that problem when it comes...Blue skies,KC.

[enigmaT120]

4 years! Wow. Congratulations.

[dougie]

I had a left femur/hip smashup and installed a Surefoot sidestand from Motobins on my R100RS.
It is further back than the original and was easy to put down BEFORE getting off the bike. Felt much safer.

[sabre2]

Yes Dougie,I also use a Surefoot stand,It makes getting aboard the BM much easier....Blue skies,KC.

[Ken in Oklahoma]

To my mind the stock side stands for the /6 and /7 bikes (and probably including the /5 and pre monolever bikes) were an abomination, for reasons which I don't really need to enumerate here. However I always (well except for that one time) got along with the stock side stand just fine. The reason is simple, I have long legs. While sitting on the seat I could find and deploy the side stand with my toe and push it forward until I felt it stop. That meant, with my toe still on the side stand. I could then safely lean the bike over (let the bike fall over?) and know that all would be well. Then I could easily dismount from my sitting position. In my years of riding airheads I've only had one problem dismounting that way. You see, I wear bifocals and the ground isn't necessarily in focus. On that one occasion I failed to see the dried up tire track depression that was in just the wrong place.

Now, I have ridden airheads with the Brown side stands (one came on my '91RT) and I wasn't impressed. My main issure was the lack of a tab on the Brown to allow me to 'toe' it easily and swing the side stand out. I also thought the Brown leaned the bike over much more than it ought to.

I have no experience with the Shure Foot, but I understand that it a Brown clone. If so I wouldn't be a fan of it either.

Ken

[Norm T R100T R1150RT]

When I mounted a "Brown" on mine I left the stock side stand in place - it acts as a cradle of sorts and holds the Brown out away from the frame for easy access - and on a trip with a particularly heavy load, deployed both to ease my fears of collapse - works fine for me