I had Spike on the phone the other day,
he wants a Bushman/Lawton/Jotajoe side stand kit
leave the poor bloke alone, they are a truly excellent product, and increase the enjoyment of owning a riding any of the 180's (sadly not available for RGS types) particularly handy for hopping on and off the bike eg, outside the paper shop, fag shop, petrol station. post office, etc. and dead handy when "nipping" into a hotel and seeking a vacancy for the night, I love mine, production of these units has changed "ownership" a few times and there must be reasons for that, Joe has it currently and donates profits to charity, it cant be a bad thing even if someone buys one and never fits it!
I got some serious stick from the Old Duffer when I returned his Anni to him a few weeks ago, because He has the factory side stand fitted, because his poor old crippled body, means that he MUST retain 100% of the original centre stand tang on his bike (when fitting the above kit some trimming is required) and following a once in six years service at my workshop, I had freed both stands and greased the pivots, now he cannot put the side stand out, where it used to remain, and then lay the bike onto it, because the thing springs back when no weight is on it, which was standard factory spec, but Duff likes it "stiff" (don't we all!) so the bike will come back here and I will introduce some shimming to give it just a touch of anti spring resistance, strangely though it hasn't stopped the old git riding it, he has been to a Vincent rally on it (enjoys pissing them off and leaving all four of his at home, Vin owners are 400% worse than ILOC in this respect) and the AGM, to which he rode up alone, now lads, credit where its due, he rode to Blackwell from Greenwich by himself at 81 years of age, because Hamish and I were leaving half an hour before he wanted to, guess what, Hamish and I had a fairly spirited ride up, in the morning glow and Duff was no more than 40 minutes behind us, it might have even been the 30, and his memory is not what it used to be, beats me how he remembered the way without maps of GPS, when H and I had to resort to the latter ourselves!!! and we have been there more times than he has!!!
CLEM