sorry I don't have a better pic...here is a little vid. that shows my kickstand. What I did is cut the stock stand and I intended to weld it back together, only shorter, but I was not able to make it strong enough. So what I did is cut a piece of tubing with a slight curve at the end and a flat piece on the end, from this old real ugly hardtail frame that's just junk. The end piece just kind looked like a "foot" to me. So I whittled the top half of the stock stand down a bit so that it became a little narrower at the bottom end, and then I JAMMED it into the piece of tubing. Hammered it in til I couldn't budge it back out, and then welded around there. So basically I inserted a whittled down stock stand and jammed it into another piece of tubing which just happened to have a foot-like thing on the end.
Then I reattached the foot flipper thingy but it was no placed correctly. I learned that not only is the job of the foot flipper thingy to make it easier to raise the stand, but it also needs to stop the stand from going up too high under the frame. So it also serves as a "stop" in the up pos. at the frame rail.
So I welded a different and much shorter one on. Works well now (I think) and isn't in the way.
Here's the vid and then a link to some pics as I made the thing.
Its funky but I think it will work.
If anything, I think I may have to add a kind of "ski" under the foot, just to give it a larger contact area to the ground. But really, the stock XS stand doesn;t have a big footprint either.
So, we'll see.
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Link to pics how I made it, but this only shows the long foot extension thing attached, which I later had to replace as it interfered with the frame.
http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg258/emzpublic/XS%2009/Sat%204-11%20kickstand/
