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5 minutes ago, MooN said:

"Puck,  the vivacious fairy in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Notorious for his mischievous deeds, Puck makes witty, fanciful asides that serve to guide the play and its outrageous action."

www.britannica.com 

so now you know

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28 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Also, you can now stop fretting about the underside of the sidestand foot getting scratched. It's a new world.

I should have cleaned and sprayed the underneath before the Puck went on though.

That was an oversight on my part!

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  • 2 months later...

Had the same problem on the 9T it was a right pita. Got the larger footplate from Nippys which was fine on the sinking front but if the camber was too much you may as well book the hernia op before you tried to get it upright! A friend put an extra slab of metal on the bottom and now (thanks to the fact he’s a biker he new precisely how far to raise it without making it unstable) its now perfect. Ridiculous lengths to have to go to though. The Himalayan has the opposite problem, a stand thats too long and makes it too upright if the ground slopes up! Apparently they’ve fixed the crappy side stand on the latest iteration. 

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2 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Had the same problem on the 9T it was a right pita. Got the larger footplate from Nippys which was fine on the sinking front but if the camber was too much you may as well book the hernia op before you tried to get it upright! A friend put an extra slab of metal on the bottom and now (thanks to the fact he’s a biker he new precisely how far to raise it without making it unstable) its now perfect. Ridiculous lengths to have to go to though. The Himalayan has the opposite problem, a stand thats too long and makes it too upright if the ground slopes up! Apparently they’ve fixed the crappy side stand on the latest iteration. 

I think it's set low on this model (and has a low seat height) because they wanted to make it more accessible to shorter riders.

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18 minutes ago, XTreme said:

I think it's set low on this model (and has a low seat height) because they wanted to make it more accessible to shorter riders.

The guy at the BMW garage said they do it on quite a few models and they always get complaints ?‍♂️  
I don’t really see how if you can’t get your leg over a taller bike that most people are gonna be able to ride it anyway cos you need a reasonable degree of hip flexibility to stop on a bike you can’t touch the ground on. Seems daft. 
Then again BMW always had the rep of an old man’s bike until Boorman n McGregor did some trip so maybe it’s just an adaptation for them ?

 

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They sell a lot of those bikes with the factory lowering kit as well as having dealers lower previously standard bikes. So, if you have the same sidestand for different height bikes, the taller ones will either be like that or the lower ones will be too vertical and easily fall down when on it.

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The side stand on my 650 Dakar used to lean badly even with the puck on it. Eventually it caused the bracket where it mounted to the frame to break away. The guy who welded it up for my said it was a shit design 

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