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slight mishap.

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TrickyMicky:
Nice bit of work done there, looks good.  Re. the kickstart rubber, I can remember some of my early Hondas had this very useful piece of information as standard.  As for the slight mishap, well, I'm sure many of us have suffered from sidestand woes one way or another in our time. Your first fears are probably echoed by most of us with older machines regarding "Mind the tank, or, mind the exhaust system"!!!  My recent lucky escape from a 'slight mishap' (brain fog) being that I use a couple of Sealey dollies to make swapping the two bikes round in the garage a lot easier.  I had moved the 400 sideways across the garage, and then went behind the 250 and pushed it forward using the rear carrier.  Hard concrete floor, hard castors on dolly, one of which caught a small pebble and stopped dead, meaning bike shot forward off the stand and fortunately fell against a tool cabinet with the handlebar end weight taking the shock. Must remember to keep the floor swept!!!

Johnny4428:
Well, I must confess to a minor mishap a couple of months ago I had the old scruffy 550 on the bike lift strapped on the front forks either side as there was no centre stand and side stand a couple of inches short of the bike falling over! I was working on rigging up some new wiring and had the bike running. What I didn’t notice was the ratchet strap at on side was in contact with the exhaust which very quickly melted through the strap! Thankfully no fin damage to the engine which was my only concern. Bike ended up almost upside down jammed between work bench and bike lift! 🥵 “Safety First”  Failed to risk access again!🫢

mickwinf:
I had to ask my neighbour  to help me lift it up as can't do it on my own.

Johnny4428:
I did manage to lift mine back onto its wheels but it was a good lift. Not used with lifting them off the ground! 🫢

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I had my 400 on the bike ramp during assembly, no exhaust or  front forks, somehow it slipped forwards off the center stand. I stopped it falling sideways. I had to sumon help from two 18 year olds to lift the bike back onto the stand.

Only damage was to my ego.

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