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Old 09-21-2006, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Brewmaster
OK I have to admit that I went out and inspected my side stand. I removed it and looked it over real thoroughly. There appears to be no damage or indication of excessive stress. So my conclusion is that after 6 years of doing that it causes little or no damage, unless you have heard of something else I'm not going to change my ways. Of course I do agree it would really suck if it broke and did some damage!
I was talking about the very real possiblity of breaking your engine cases, not your side stand. Certainly nothing I would risk...

http://speedzilla.com/forums/showpost.php?p=248473&postcount=12

There were more threads about this happening, but the search function only goes back a little ways since Dave switched servers (or whatever he did).
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