Given an ST 1300 with a stock side stand parked broadside to the wind (wind blowing directly toward the sidestand side of the bike when it is parked on a flat, hard surface). Figure a top case into the equation, windshield down (or wherever you want it to be).
What speed wind will knock the bike over?
Of course there are a lot of variables, and I'm talking generalities. Surely there is an approximate wind speed that makes parking the bike in this orientation dangerous.
I've read here in another thread that this happened to someone (i.e a wind induced parked tip over). I just want a ballpark idea of what kind of gusting could tip over the bike. Why? If I park the bike in wind gusting to 25 mph, and the consensus here is it will take a 60 mph wind to knock it over, I would not give it a second thought. Otherwise I would be more careful where I parked it and how I parked it. Will I ever encounter these kinds of wind? I doubt it, but once, years ago, I was camping in Colorado and the wind picked up so much at night that I tipped over a picnic table and arranged my sleeping bag in its lee. By morning the wind was so strong I decided to head home. With this gusting tail wind, I was able to put my hand outside the car window and feel no air movement at all. I was driving 60 to 75 mph (don't remember any more than that).
What speed wind will knock the bike over?
Of course there are a lot of variables, and I'm talking generalities. Surely there is an approximate wind speed that makes parking the bike in this orientation dangerous.
I've read here in another thread that this happened to someone (i.e a wind induced parked tip over). I just want a ballpark idea of what kind of gusting could tip over the bike. Why? If I park the bike in wind gusting to 25 mph, and the consensus here is it will take a 60 mph wind to knock it over, I would not give it a second thought. Otherwise I would be more careful where I parked it and how I parked it. Will I ever encounter these kinds of wind? I doubt it, but once, years ago, I was camping in Colorado and the wind picked up so much at night that I tipped over a picnic table and arranged my sleeping bag in its lee. By morning the wind was so strong I decided to head home. With this gusting tail wind, I was able to put my hand outside the car window and feel no air movement at all. I was driving 60 to 75 mph (don't remember any more than that).