Motorcycle Explorer Issue 7
Puck Lash
By - Bernard Smith
Cost: £2 if that
Problem: Leaving hundreds of pucks on
various fields around the world then finding
that you have no side stand puck at the next
event in a soft soiled field. Worse still is
packing all your gear away and the mounting
up, levelling out and kicking up the side stand
to see that puck looking back at you with no
way of getting back without a lot of messing
about. More often than not I’ve muttered
‘bollocks’ and ride off to try and find some
dealership doing a promotion with free pucks.
had to pop down the shops to fill the now
empty panniers with liquid refreshment. On my
return I never bothered to reattach the puck
cord and went off looking at the bike stalls.
Packed up the next morning and jumped on the
bike to see both puck and cord looking up at
me from the floor.
You only have to get back off and reattach the
cord to get the puck back but I’ve found that if I
lash it to my tent then I’m reminded when
packing the tent away to lash that puck cord to
the Helmet Hook. So when I load up, mount and
level out I can just yank the puck up and pop
into the tank bag. This is a simple fix for a
simple problem.
Solution: Bernard Smith came up with a rather
simple idea to save me from swearing more
than I already do and to be ecologically sound.
Now you can be all professional about this or
do what I did. You need a hole in the puck and
some now come with this, mine didn’t! You can Thanks Bernard.
get a drill bit, size it up and then work on
getting the cross pencil mark for the perfect
drill... or heat a nail up and smack it with a
hammer through the puck. Now get some
What do you need?
nylon string and knot it off through the hole,
you now have ‘puck on a rope’. While camping
A Puck stand
this is best put through the ropes of your tent.
Some nylon twine
Reason being is that when I did this and
hooked it to the Helmet Hook (see review) I
A hole in the puck