04-27-2024, 05:51 PM
Heavy grease is great but would require disassembly of the pivot.
If you don't want to do that, just give it a shot of some WD40 while you work it up and down.
The side stand on my R11S was getting lazy retracting and I did that with good results. If it gets lazy again I'll repeat.
A curious fact- I was considering replacing the springs on the S with some R12XXRS springs since the side stand on the RS retracts much more smartly.
Looking up the part numbers I discovered that exactly the same part number springs are used between the two bikes 21 years apart!
Frank
If you don't want to do that, just give it a shot of some WD40 while you work it up and down.
The side stand on my R11S was getting lazy retracting and I did that with good results. If it gets lazy again I'll repeat.
A curious fact- I was considering replacing the springs on the S with some R12XXRS springs since the side stand on the RS retracts much more smartly.
Looking up the part numbers I discovered that exactly the same part number springs are used between the two bikes 21 years apart!
Frank
'23 R1250RS, 11,000 mi. 2 yr., '03 R1100S BCR #6/200, '85 K100/1100RS- 40 yrs. 331,000 mi., '17R1200RS- 51,054 mi. (gone), '16 R1200RS- 28,322 mi. (gone), '11 R1200RT-30,000 mi. (gone), '05 R1200ST-58,000 mi. (gone), '96 Ducati 900SS/SP-89,000 mi. (gone), 560K+ BMW miles