Show Me Your Side Stand Foot

Willsmotorcycle

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Before I have someone weld a piece of steel to the foot. Does anyone have an off the shelf, bolt on foot they found works as intended, bigger footprint? Thanks in advance.
 
If all you need is a bigger footprint for an extended park, you could pick up one of those circular electrical junction box plates at Home Depot and drop it under the stand if parking on soft asphalt, or loose gravel. I carried one of those in my left glovebox on the ST for 27 years and had several occasions when it came in handy.
 
I have a plastic puck (several, actually) that I picked up, some at motorcycle trade shows for free, and some from the SWAG given away at MSF classes I've coached. Doesn't have to be fancy, or expensive.
If they didn't have a lanyard hole in them, I would drill one and tie a string to it, to allow retrieval from your riding position. The other end goes around a mirror, lever, grip, or whatever works for you.
Bolt-on sidestand foots are available primarily on sites that cater to the adventure bike crowd, so you could see what's available there. Think Touratech, Black Dog and similar companies. I don't know which would fit the ST, but there's gotta be something.
 
I have seen more than a few on aliexpress.com. I personally carry an aluminum plate on a string, to use when necessary, and it lives in the R/H glove box.
 
Here you go:

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If you need an uncovered one:

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If you're looking for a naked side stand foot, please look elsewhere on the internet sir, we don't allow such creepy posts here.

And, just in case you needed the right side stand foot.

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However, I've never used that one, I'm afraid I would break a hip.

Hope this helps.
 
I have a few of those plastic pucks from trade shows. They work great as coasters on my desk at work.
I keep a rectangle of stainless steel about the same size as an electrical box cover like @Bush mentioned in my glovebox just in case. Since I live in Florida, there are times during the summer that I need to use it in asphalt parking lots.
 
The problem with the ST1300 is that the side-stand foot tucks in to a pretty tight area. It is hard to extend the foot print using a bolt-on plate without having it interfere with something. Increasing it to much downwards (when it is in the retracted position) where there is sufficient room can cause contact with the road.

There was a member on here who designed and made a bolt-on plate specifically for the ST1300. It was custom designed to take advantage of the space available. He had intentions of selling them. He sold only a few, and after receiving reports of it hitting the road under hard leaning he stopped selling them. He asked the few people who had bought them to return them or destroy them and he refunded them.

I mention the above just to make you aware of the danger and to thoroughly evaluate and test whatever you decide to install to avoid a surprise while you are having fun in a high speed hard left curve.

If you find something, or make something, that works do let us know as an install and forget solution is nice to have.

See below for some ideas.

Here are a couple of ideas for you.

And another;

SIDE STAND PLATE?????? | General

Who would know who sells the plate that attaches to the side stand to keep it from sinking into hot asphalt or in the dirt??? thank you Dean
www.st-owners.com www.st-owners.com
 
Willsmotorcycle said:
Tried and true, my current deployment and retraction method. Looking for a one step method, put down side stand.
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I have several of those identical promo foots by RaceTech. We gave them out for a while (till we ran out of 'em) to students in our Basic RiderCourse.
Blue, yellow, and orange. Did they ever make a red one?
There are others I've collected, but none are as nice as this one.
 
klaproth said:
I personally carry an aluminum plate on a string, to use when necessary, and it lives in the R/H glove box.
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Count me in on this. It's a 4x4 electrical box cover, with sturdy #18 cotton twine rope tied to the enclosed eyelet, and at the other end, it's tied into a permanent loop, so that it fits over the handgrip ... thus, that's the "reminder" to remove when leaving :)

This is WAY better than welding a larger side stand foot, esp if you have more than one motorcycle :)

It's basically this:
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Here’s the one I use, a must-have if youre on sketchy footing. Carry it in my left front pocket, that way it’s always within reach. I hang the string off the L handlebar, that way I never forget to pick it up and lose it. The $5 bill is optional, not required for proper function of side-stand plate.D3D0DB5E-C266-4146-98E6-C9C099E634FB.jpeg
Personally I would never permanently attach anything to the existing side stand, for reasons noted by in posts above, plus this is very easy to use and is fool proof
 
I made one after RaceTech rebuilt my rear shock (ST1300). Despite my instructions that I did not want the bike to sit higher with the new, stronger spring they suggested for my weight, the bike WAS taller and leaned over farther on the side stand. Figuring to kill two birds with one stone, I made a shoe that was either 1/4" or 3/8" thick. Like @Andrew Shadow said, it had interference problems with the muffler. Easily settled...back to the grinder. After trimming it several times, it ended up about the width of a 1/4-20's hex head bolt larger all around than the original foot. Washers overlapping the cast foot held it on w/ the aforementioned bolts. It worked well on warm asphalt but was still not big enough for a 90ºF+ day on soft parking lots. Came the day our group rode to a PA restaurant and the street was heavily cambered. I realized I was trapped aboard the bike after backing into the spot - the side stand was too long. I had a friend hold up the bike, I dismounted and found a wrench. End of the shoe. The bike stayed upright w/o the shoe.
 
Art Franz said:
Here’s the one I use, a must-have if youre on sketchy footing. Carry it in my left front pocket, that way it’s always within reach. I hang the string off the L handlebar, that way I never forget to pick it up and lose it. The $5 bill is optional, not required for proper function of side-stand plate.D3D0DB5E-C266-4146-98E6-C9C099E634FB.jpeg
Personally I would never permanently attach anything to the existing side stand, for reasons noted by in posts above, plus this is very easy to use and is fool proof
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That is only a toonie in the USA
 
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