Jota Side Stand

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My Jota (1979 180) has no side stand, should it have one?
I am considering purchasing a complete kit from a guy on Facebook Marketplace. His name is Grant Duguid, is he a club member, has anyone purchased this kit and is it a good buy at £210 plus postage? Your guidance would be much appreciated.
 
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You can get them direct from Alumacraft. Out of stock, currently, but I'm sure they'll be making more.
Specify Ceriani or Marzocchi forks.
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180 LAVERDA Side Stand Kits inc. JOTA, 3C, 1200, MIRAGE bushman style

180 LAVERDA Side Stand Kits Models include JOTA, 3c, 1200, MIRAGE, bushman style , Marzocchi & Ceriani brackets The difference between the brackets Bushman style the original bracket fits all models but you will have to take your centre stand off Marzzochi model kinks out by 10mm no need to...
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One of the best useable upgrades you can make in my opinion, a few complete kits available as Hamish has mentioned or make up from parts using bracket spacers bolts and side stand ex kawasaki,use the search function and read lots of historical posts on the topic.....you certainly won.t regret it.
 
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Shiny said:
My Jota (1979 180) has no side stand, should it have one?
I am considering purchasing a complete kit from a guy on Facebook Marketplace. His name is Grant Duguid, is he a club member, has anyone purchased this kit and is it a good buy at £210 plus postage? Your guidance would be much appreciated.
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Actually, no.

AfaIk, available only as a factory/dealer option for the 180° 1000 triples, can't recall them being fitted as standard equipment. Standard issue for the 1200s though. ;)

The kits available today were originally devised by Jim(?) Bushman to replace the poorly designed Breganze afterthought, they've been on offer by Grant and others for several years now. These are totally different to the factory items and actually work as intended. They do have other drawbacks though...

Grant was a well-respected forum member, until he was truely pissed off by the questionable behavior of other members.

piet
 
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Shiny said:
My Jota (1979 180) has no side stand, should it have one?
I am considering purchasing a complete kit from a guy on Facebook Marketplace. His name is Grant Duguid, is he a club member, has anyone purchased this kit and is it a good buy at £210 plus postage? Your guidance would be much appreciated.
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Grant is quite reliable.
His kit as is needs cutting the tang on the centre stand so as not to clash with the side stand. easily remedied by moving the side stand back by 2 or 3 inches by means of an appropriate steel bar. No more clash.
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sfcpiet said:
Actually, no.

AfaIk, available only as a factory/dealer option for the 180° 1000 triples, can't recall them being fitted as standard equipment. Standard issue for the 1200s though. ;)

The kits available today were originally devised by Jim(?) Bushman to replace the poorly designed Breganze afterthought, they've been on offer by Grant and others for several years now. These are totally different to the factory items and actually work as intended. They do have other drawbacks though...

Grant was a well-respected forum member, until he was truely pissed off by the questionable behavior of other members.

piet
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While strictly correct, the kits were devised by Bushman, but the design and original product was exclusively mine from 2006 or before, until it was adopted by others before Jim.
I made the pictures available and the sketch with dimensions.

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Here’s some outstanding triple side stand engineering, it’s going to be given the cutoff wheel treatment pretty quickly

Clearly the previous owner never cranked it over around lefthanders.

Bit of a shame, but not too bad.

Frame was a factory replacement:
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chrisk said:
Here’s some outstanding triple side stand engineering,
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My 79 Jota had something not dissimilar when I got it, didn't stick out that much though. It met Mr Angle Grinder as well.

The best sidestand for these is what the factory did on the 120 Jota - and later similar one on the RGS - as it tucks out of the way of everything. They just put it a bit too far forward, too short tang, and had the stupid suicide spring on it - easily fixed.

I thought about making something similar for my Jota and might still, but in the end was too lazy and/or didn't want to weld onto the frame so did my iteration of the JotaRob / Bushman / et al thing. It's certainly a game changer for the useability of the bike.
 
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