Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

A sad tale with a happy ending

Sometimes the simplest jobs can be the worst – unless you have the right tools

We park our bikes, Tamar’s

Piaggio and my Kawasaki, in an assigned space in the basement of our condo building. Our space, dammit, is far from any overhead light fixture or electrical outlet. Worse, the concrete floor of our space is tilted at several annoying angles. Not flat anywhere. Drainage issues, I suppose.

Tamar’s scooter has a centre stand. But my ZRX has a braced swingarm. The bracing is under the swingarm, where a centre stand

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