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« Reply #30 on: August 17, 2009, 06:52:07 PM »
Ask for a side stand thingy OK! Or a pug wink
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« Reply #31 on: August 17, 2009, 07:05:26 PM »
Anyone in the south they are handed out by insurers and so on at the Ace Cafe Burn Up on 13 Sept and at Brightona on 11 October. Well they were handing them out last year. Both events are on Madeira Drive in Brighton.
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« Reply #32 on: August 17, 2009, 07:12:55 PM »
Disconnect your nitrous bottle and spray it on the ground where you want to park up. The liquid gas evaporating will freeze the ground solid, allowing you to park using your sidestand for a couple of hours*.







*Dependent on ambient temperature... twisted
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« Reply #33 on: August 17, 2009, 10:24:37 PM »
Quote from: harum-scarum on August 17, 2009, 07:12:55 PM
Disconnect your nitrous bottle and spray it on the ground where you want to park up. The liquid gas evaporating will freeze the ground solid, allowing you to park using your sidestand for a couple of hours*.







*Dependent on ambient temperature... twisted

that sounds amazingly complicated!

....... im in.
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« Reply #34 on: August 18, 2009, 12:59:12 AM »
Quote from: wraith on August 17, 2009, 05:56:22 PM
wow.... £7.65... for a metal thingie (not a puck)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OXFORD-SIDE-STAND-PUCK-MOTORBIKE-MAGNIMATE-MOTORCYCLE_W0QQitemZ390025788058QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Motorcycle_Parts?hash=item5acf593a9a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

cus lets face it... we ALL love being screwed with our pants on!

I had one of those. Forgot to pick it up and it stuck to my side stand.

then fell off.
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« Reply #35 on: August 18, 2009, 06:08:15 AM »
Don't get a plastic one, no use at all!

Either a wooden one; that floats and keeps your bike up, or a metal one; that just sinks in ever so slowly, just set your alarm early.

i tried a flimsy plastic thingy at kelso, the perishing thing just folded in two and left me half on/half off the bike; when i tried to reach it i fell off one side and the bike toppled over the other, oh how we all laughed? rofl

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« Reply #36 on: August 18, 2009, 07:22:02 AM »
My plastic ones are fine.
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« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2009, 07:36:14 PM »
Quote from: Wheelspin on August 18, 2009, 07:22:02 AM
My plastic ones are fine.


+1....we only use the plastic ones at work, never had a bike go over even on wet Welsh fields.
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« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2009, 11:22:12 PM »
I clearly need to polish up my sense of humour. help

Re plastic pucks, please read all the post, the clues are there.  rolling eyes

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« Reply #39 on: August 19, 2009, 07:09:34 AM »
I don't get it.  Far too oblique mate confused
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« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2009, 07:46:00 AM »
The Carole Nash freebies work OK.
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« Reply #41 on: August 19, 2009, 10:14:05 AM »
Quote from: Wheelspin on August 19, 2009, 07:09:34 AM
I don't get it.  Far too oblique mate confused

Aye, it's the Sottish elements in my system ( and my inability to use the correct 'smiley') laughing

Just for clarification, the retail/freebies should be ok, just don't use the top off any old plastic container, that's what happened at Kelso when i mislaid the real thing.

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« Reply #42 on: August 19, 2009, 10:59:59 AM »
if anyone wants a huge piece of steel plate welding on to their side stand let me know  nerner
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« Reply #43 on: August 19, 2009, 12:04:18 PM »
You could always use a puck!
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« Reply #44 on: August 19, 2009, 12:23:23 PM »
I used a empty water bottle
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« Reply #45 on: August 19, 2009, 01:56:52 PM »
Quote from: Grumble on August 19, 2009, 12:04:18 PM
You could always use a puck!


What are these 'pucks' you speak of.... nerner
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« Reply #46 on: August 19, 2009, 02:08:39 PM »
These are they. Apparently the work of demons.

http://www.demonbikes.com/more/on/details/6659
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« Reply #47 on: August 19, 2009, 02:37:34 PM »
£1.89 faint

I would rather just use a flat tin can or a pug toothy grin
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« Reply #48 on: August 19, 2009, 02:39:05 PM »
Quote from: Paxovasa on August 19, 2009, 02:37:34 PM
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I would rather just use a flat tin can or a pug toothy grin

Tight.  You just borrowed a tenner off me this morning.
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« Reply #49 on: August 19, 2009, 02:41:12 PM »
Spent it, on wild woman and drugs!
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« Reply #50 on: August 19, 2009, 02:43:15 PM »
Quote from: Paxovasa on August 19, 2009, 02:37:34 PM
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I would rather just use a flat tin can or a pug toothy grin



Pugs are too noisy.
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« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2009, 02:44:59 PM »
They double up as a bike alarm!

And they are Sooooooooooooooooooooo ugly no-one would want to get close to your bike!
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« Reply #52 on: August 19, 2009, 02:52:57 PM »
Trouble is they yelp from the minute you put them under your stand until you lift the bike off again, can keep you awake all night.
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« Reply #53 on: August 19, 2009, 02:54:17 PM »
That is when ear plugs are useful OK!
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« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2009, 03:04:26 PM »
Or just a puck.
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« Reply #55 on: August 19, 2009, 04:19:28 PM »
Just make one yourself, have a look around for some reasonably thick wood (about 18 or so millimeters) then cut it to 75mm square or more. Old wooden pallets are a great source of this timber and often they are just chucked into a skip smile
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« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2009, 06:12:53 PM »
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« Reply #57 on: August 19, 2009, 06:21:54 PM »
I meant lunch and cigarettes wink
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« Reply #58 on: August 19, 2009, 08:05:26 PM »
I know where they are chopping down some trees, send me a chainsaw and i shall send you a puck. wink

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« Reply #59 on: August 20, 2009, 11:51:35 AM »
Quote from: della on August 19, 2009, 02:39:05 PM
Quote from: Paxovasa on August 19, 2009, 02:37:34 PM
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I would rather just use a flat tin can or a pug toothy grin

Tight.  You just borrowed a tenner off me this morning.

Hey ho, you too overnighting it now! laughing
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