So rather than carry around a block of wood or a crushed can for the sidestand, I decided to go for Rivco's sidestand pad. Overall it's great. Fits perfrectly. The set screw cinches it down tightly. Pad area is greatly increased and I don't worry about the stand sinking into hot asphalt or other semi-soft surfaces.
Today, however, I got into a left-turn lean and heard a terrible scraping sound... sure enough it was this pad scraping where the red arrow is. Unfortunately when the stand is "up" and this thing is scraping, there is no give; the stand is as high as its' gonna go and I don't like that. I'd rather have the moveable pegs scrape first, not a solidly mounted item.
I'm gonna take a file to this corner of the pad and see if I can file it down so that it isn't the first thing to scrape. The set screw is right in this corner... so not sure yet if enough material can be removed.
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