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Originally Posted by Ruger
Some great ideas for keeping bikes from sinking in hot asphalt. I bought a "parking puck" from a guy that used to be on this forum. I can't remember his name right now. He made them special up there in the frozen north lands of Canada and they are really nice. I just carry it in my tool bag. I had a KZ1000P sink into the parking lot while on the center stand!
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I remembered the parking puck after reading your post. WebBikeWorld.Com did a story on it which you can read
HERE.
And as far as a motorcycle tipping over on the center stand, I had it happen this spring to my Ninja 500 as well. A HUGE thunderstorm / weather front moved though my area while I was at work at the 911 Center.
I was watching the Radar and Weather Monitoring equipment, and it recorded a wind gust of 68 Miles Per Hour. I was thinking to myself... "Whoa! That's a pretty big gust of wind!". So I opened up a browser and pulled up my webacm to check on my bike remotely. This is what I saw:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...-25_191337.jpg
According to the local Airports Radar, the weather front measured over 8,000 Feet from top to bottom, and had an average speed of 72 MPH at the 150 Foot Level! The cover on my bike (which was on the center stand) acted like a Sail, and the bike blew over.
Fortunately the damage was minimal. Slightly scratched up mirror, slightly bent rear brake lever, slightly scratched up exhaust can, and the right front blinker's cover screw stripped out. The cover saved all the paint from getting scratched up, so that was 35 bucks well spent on the cover imho!
And before anyone asks what webcam software I'm using, it's freeware called
YAWCAM.