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Is a hockey puck the best way to go about fixing....

I have a chunk of 3/4 inch aluminum. Trimmed to fit the stand it is just a bit more durable than a hockey puck.

On at least four sidestands I have drilled small holes through the foot and bolted the stuff to the bottom of the stands.
 
1.99 with free shipping...........Amazon. Seriously.

Yup! If that is too expensive you could scrounge craigslist for free materials but you would probably find a chunk of lead before a nice piece of aluminum to work with.
 
I have a chunk of 3/4 inch aluminum. Trimmed to fit the stand it is just a bit more durable than a hockey puck.

On at least four sidestands I have drilled small holes through the foot and bolted the stuff to the bottom of the stands.

This is what I am gonna do and essentially what the Verholen product is... drill holes in foot and chunk, tap thread into the chunk and then bolt through to attach to foot. No rust, good durability.
 
I guess if I had the problem and wanted to use aluminum, I might purchase an aluminum meat tenderizing hammer and cut off as needed. Traction built right in.

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I have a chunk of 3/4 inch aluminum. Trimmed to fit the stand it is just a bit more durable than a hockey puck.

On at least four sidestands I have drilled small holes through the foot and bolted the stuff to the bottom of the stands.

Common steel bolted to aluminum.......just has too many bad currents
 
Oh Canada

I had a box of hockey pucks from an earlier avocation and thought I’d give this a try. Took 10 minutes, works great!

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I had a box of hockey pucks from an earlier avocation and thought I’d give this a try. Took 10 minutes, works great!

Way to go Roger! Beauty job eh?

OK OK I've seen some hosers who actually mill out some meat from the puck to fit the stand foot in but they are just show off hosers...
:brad
 
Saw this thread and thought "cool". So I bought a hockey puck and attached it to the side stand on my R1100RSL using 3 machine screws. My bike has always had what i thought was an extreme lean angle when placed on the side stand and this looked like a great and cost effective way to solve the problem and at the same time get a bigger and thus more stable foot print.

WRONG! Not on a '93 RSL because the center stand will interfere with the longer side stand when both are retracted. It looks to me like the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing as in the guy that designed the center stand didn't communicate with the guy that was designing the side stand. I think this is yet another classic example of high quality second to none German engineering.:banghead
 
At a rest stop yesterday a guy stopped with his hockey puck attached to his side stand and a fight broke out! Go figure.. No referees- so it went on for quite sometime until the commercial break. That's Hockey for ya :wave
 
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