2006 TE250 kickstand help - Is this bent?

Hi everyone,

As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

Thanks for your patience and support!

Mickeyfin

Husqvarna

Sep 30, 2013

Hi folks, I just bought a 2006 TE 250 and it came with no kickstand. Once I got it home and checked it out thoroughly, I noticed that the mounting tab (for lack of what it is really called) looks to be bent. Can someone tell from these pictures? It looks like the lower mounting bolt is bent, but maybe that's how it is supposed to be.

Also, I want to get a kickstand for this bike. Should I try to purchase a new stock kickstand or find/use something else. It looks like lots of people modify theirs to suit.