Finally well enough to catch up on some of the jobs I’d bought parts for. First is to fit a side stand relocation kit and the side stand I bought from 4k Parti Speciali.
Side Stand relocation Kit
Main reason for this is the stock side stand is bolted to the engine case and if you do hit something of road there’s a chance of smashing the engine case. So I bought a kit from Charlie Nut and bolted it on, only thing I’m going to do is swap out the bolts for stainless ones as there at the bottom of the engine where all the muck from the road will corrode standard bolts.
Kit was easy to fit, just follow their instructions, obviously cleaning as you go 🙂 I’ll redo the photos when I swap the bolts as was feeling crap on the day I did the work.
4K Parti Speciali Side Stand
This stand kit is great on many counts, first it is adjustable for long or short travel suspension, secondly its designed to tuck in closer to the frame and finally it looks great.
Once is unbolted the standard side stand it was apparent that the mounting bracket and bolt were both worn introducing lots of play and the springs had been bent and some stage so I had a quick trip to the local KTM dealers to pick up new parts.
The only mod I made to the 4k stand was to add longer bolts to the foot and dome nuts to ensure its safe from vibrations plus medium loctite.
I’m also going to investigate removing the side stand switch as it looks like a weak point if it gets broken off road, is ridiculously expensive to replace and unnecessary as bikes didn’t use to have them, just more shit to go wrong at the wrong time.
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