Today had a strange problem with the bike.
Arriving at work,tried putting the bike on the kickstand and it just toppled over as the kickstand didn't have the "strength" to hold it.
The root cause was the loss of one of the two screws that hold the left foot peg and kickstand in place. No major harm done as I was able to put the bike on the center stand, and after a visit to the local dealer got an extra screw. However it raises concerns, the first being if this assembly was to fall off (it was only held in place by one very loose screw) I could have had a serious accident if this hit the rear wheel and the second that it is poor engineering to have such a "stressed" attachment, which holds he weight of the bike, held in place by two screws even without a nut! Even stranger is that I had tightened these a couple of days before!
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