I was riding my motorcycle home from a really long trip, about 300 miles. I was about 50 miles from home in a small town and I stopped in heavy traffic. Someone came running over and said my sidestand was down, which was a real shock. It seems the spring had broken whilst I was riding along, and if I hadn't been told, I would have certainly crashed on a left hand bend shortly after. I parked the bike and called the recovery people, and they said they would be a couple of hours. I was cold and hungry, and didn't fancy hanging around that long, so I looked around and found lots of cable ties on a street sign. In a couple of moments I had removed a few with my Leatherman, and I propped the bike up on a wall and fixed the sidestand up with the cable ties. I was home in no time. My Wave is a really early one, worn and sloppy with so much use, I would never go anywhere without it!

- Adrian L.

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