Sidestand - metal fatigue

[jrsndman]

I know I've seen a post about this before, can't find it now though. I bought the side stand pictured below to replace mine because the wear on mine concerned me. Mine is much worse. I know "they all do that" but, there must be a better solution. Anyone have any ideas?

[EasyBee]

That's not metal fatique. Like you write it yourself, that's the wear on that part from using the sidestand. Plain grease should lessen the wear a lot. It's raw metal on metal while using the sidestand.

[CycleRob]

jrsndman, The wear is really noticeable, but there are a lot more years of wear left before it wears almost all-the-way-thru. A big plus is that there are 2 springs to prevent the stand from going down on a left turn when other bike's single spring stand would loose its spring. What about the wear on the 4 curved ends of the 2 springs? Replacing the side stand will give you $ticker $hock!
Some may suggest a small weld deposit add-on into the wear point, but the heat might anneal (soften) that iron loop on the side stand.
You could wrap 2 turns of a small rectangular metal piece cut from a food can lid around the worn area . . . a very "labor intensive" job for a small diameter rounded loop that would disperse the load and relocate the wear points.