My wife's kickstand is bent, and the bike leans pretty far to the left when it is parked. I bet it happened when I trailered the bike home from Michigan. It was my first ever trailering of a motorcycle, and I relied on the folks who sold it to me to know how to load it up and strap it in. It seemed kind of strange to me to leave the kickstand down while strapping the front end down, but they seemed sure of themselves and I went with it.
The kickstand is bent and the wooden floor of the trailer is all chewed up from the kickstand biting into it with every bump. I don't care about the floor of the trailer.
I looked for replacement kickstands and couldn't find any except for a $200 one at denniskirk.com.
I'm not gonna spend that kind of money on a 20 year old bike.
So tonight I put her bike up on the center stand, and dug out my metric wrenches. I took the kickstand off the bike, and hammered the kickstand back into a shape that resembled straight.
I put the kickstand back on the bike. Much better.
My first repair. Hey, we all gotta start somewhere.
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