Sports suspension and side stands!

[Gsnelly]

Hi all,
I am after a bit of help for something very specific!
I have a 1300 trophy with sports suspension from the factory and I am trying to fit the Alt rider side stand switch protector……..but it just WILL NOT line up to allow me to refit the bolts. I’ve watched the installation vid……and I just can’t see how you can get this wrong……it’s so simple!

Does anyone know if the side stands or fittings could be any different on the sports suspension model due to its in creased height?
Touratech made two side stand foot extenders where one is specific to the adaptive height one…..the other specific to the sports suspension model, so something must be different somewhere…….but I am going mad as the repeated suggestion seems to be that I’m fitting it wrong.

Please someone help!

 

[botus]

is the adventure using the same addon ?

the GS with sport suspension I gather is basically a GS with GSA suspension (that said parts show a third set of shock part numbers - I was unsure if that's spring and damper fun or ?)

 

[Gsnelly]

is the adventure using the same addon ?

the GS with sport suspension I gather is basically a GS with GSA suspension (that said parts show a third set of shock part numbers - I was unsure if that's spring and damper fun or ?)

Alt rider list this item as fitting the GSA as well……but it’s just not happening on my bike (2025 trophy with sports suspension)
I seem to recollect reading somewhere that the sports suspension is the same travel as the GSA, but different spring rate making it a bespoke unit for this application….maybe that’s why there are 3 sets of part numbers?
My calipers suggest it’s about 2mm out in the hole centres……back to the drawing board!

 

[botus]

Dealer mentioned the one BMW built with some of the option missing I'd ordered, - is now on the fleet with one of their guys riding it - and he reports its a much better bike with the Sports Suspension...

I think I looked up side-stands a while back - they come in three flavours

However I also I think the issue many forget is unless they lock out damping at key off (which I don't think is either sensible or that they do), it needs to lean over enough that when its got 40+kg of panniers and top box loaded up, it doesn't just fall over

of course made worse after some halfwit stopped you having the option to lock the steering on either lock (which all air cooled ones always had - and all LC ones always haven't which is a critical feature dependent upon the angle of dangle a given parking place might have - all as a result of the snowflake's destroying the world !

 

[TaskMule]

Dealer mentioned the one BMW built with some of the option missing I'd ordered, - is now on the fleet with one of their guys riding it - and he reports its a much better bike with the Sports Suspension...

I think I looked up side-stands a while back - they come in three flavours

However I also I think the issue many forget is unless they lock out damping at key off (which I don't think is either sensible or that they do), it needs to lean over enough that when its got 40+kg of panniers and top box loaded up, it doesn't just fall over

of course made worse after some halfwit stopped you having the option to lock the steering on either lock (which all air cooled ones always had - and all LC ones always haven't which is a critical feature dependent upon the angle of dangle a given parking place might have - all as a result of the snowflake's destroying the world !

 

[TaskMule]

Snowflake can't lock the steering to the right, the world is destroyed!

 

[Bubb]

Snowflake admits to not being able to decide a proper parking slot or angle when said snowflake KNOWS the steering will only lock in one position.
World comes to a crashing and to the sound of snowflake wailing…..
( fade to credits) …..

 

[botus]

mouthing off and showing your ignorance - if none of these have never happened to you - you should get off bike forums as obviously never ridden or parked a bike

have you never had to squeeze the bike in where others have mirrors, indicators and bars sticking out ? often meaning only real bikes that can lock on either side have a chance to use the steering lock ?

never parked in std width places which was a tight squeeze on the air cooled 1200, that now precludes the R1300GS from parking as they stupidly made it 3" wider - so it won't fit?

the only parking on awkward slopes, means you need to leave the bike on a given lock, to ensure its parked in as stable a manner as the bike can be in that space?