Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > Supersports: SS / SuperSport / Supersport 950 > 750ss side stand too high?

[springer]

Having just got my first 750 SS after years of monsters does anyone else find the side stand holds the bike too upright? It looks like a mild breeze would blow it over.
On all the other bikes I’ve had the side stand lets the bike lean at a decent angle, whereas today I parked up and almost knocked the bike over dismounting!
It looks like it needs ¼ inch off the length, (quite to opposite of something else dear to my heart )
Your thought please…

[kwikbitch]

What year is it...?(too lazy to go through your posts!)
I think the older ones had an alloy stand...correct me if I'm wrong.
I find the cast steel stand on mine is too slender...I worry that mine lean's too much in respect to the height of the stand and that the cast could crack or snap. My mito has an alloy "flick up" stand that it easily 3 inches longer than the duke stand and the lean angle is different in the respect that it is mounted further up the bike. It seems that the Ducati stand is mounted too low.
The pics on my site are taken outside my house and the camber is fairly adverse. But standing on flat ground it leans too much for me.

http://www.kwikbitch.co.uk/page4.htm

[chicken]

The three variables are stand length, height of mounting and angle it is mounted at. My first bike (Honda Benly 200) had a stand that progressively bent away from the bike until I came out one morning and the bike was on it's side!

You can't change the first two without getting the tools out, but the third can be altered with a chamfered spacer between the stand and the mount. ie if the spacer is thicker at the bottom than the top when the stand is down, it will push the stand out further sideways - Just make sure that it doesn't go out to far or all the weight of the bike will be at the top of the sidestand - Benlys are cheap to fix, Ducatis are not!

Hope this helps, Chi