picture the day lovely and sunny,so bike out the garage and spent 30 mins washing and polishing.not happy with the wheels so moved it forward a foot or so to clean a bit more and yes never put on stand right and fell over on to ma fence. after the shock and a small tear managed to pull up and sort. only side sticker scraped so not to bad but what a fright..

Aw no way man! You got lucky!

Few months ago when I had my 88 ZX10, I got it out to go to work. Put the sidestand down and the damn thing shifted back, sidestand fell into the gap between driveways and collapsed on top of me!

Had a couple of scares with the XT though where the sidestand wasn't down completely.

Luckily its much lighter than the ZX!!

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CCC Stainless Rounds, Stage 1 DNA, Stage 2 DNA, PCV With Custom Autotune Map, PCV AutoTune, Home made O2 eliminator, Self machined Fork Spacers, DIY Autotune Switch.

once done,never forgotten

yes won't make that mistake again.. boo hoo

Just because you checked the stand is down, doesn't mean it'll do any good.

I was in the wilds of Northumberland, alone at the gate to a , well bog is the best description, put the stand down, rested the bike and opened the gate.

In the 30 seconds I had my back turned the bike was horizontal, with the stand impailed into the earth. Took super human effort to stand the bike up again..... and a large 'chunk' of Northumberland

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