Installation for lowering a kickstand arranged on a motorcycle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorPeter Gratza
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Abstract
An installation for swinging down a kickstand arranged at a motorcycle which is pivotally connected to the frame and is adapted to be swung down into the parking position by means of at least one swivel cylinder adapted to be acted upon with a pressure medium from a pressure reservoir and pivotally connected, on the one hand, at the frame and at the other, at the kickstand; the pressure reservoir is thereby prestressed by a device arranged at the motorcycle which is actuated during the operation of the motorcycle.
Claims19
An installation for swinging down a kickstand arranged at a motorcycle comprising a kickstand which is pivotally supported on the frame of a motorcycle and which is adapted to be pivoted into a parking position, cylinder means pivotally connected between the frame of the motorcycle and the kickstand for pivoting said kickstand toward said parking position in response to actuation of said cylinder means, pressure storage means for storing a pressure medium for actuating said cylinder means, pump means arranged on the motorcycle for supplying said pressure storage means with pressure medium, said pump means being actuated by oscillatory movements of the motorcycle, and control valve means being located between said pressure storage means and said cylinder means for controlling the supply of pressure medium from said pressure storage means to the cylinder means for actuating said cylinder means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.