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Around here it's called a kickstand. I thought it was another Americanism.

 

who calls it a jiffystand? that's a new one on me...

 

I usually call it "the swiveling steel bar that holds my bike"

 

Me too! Jiffy is for popcorn!

 

Look it up in any HD parts catalog. Sounds gay! Hey man you forgot to put your jiffystand up! "Excuse me" jiffy what?

 

Never have... never will...

 

I always thought the same thing.

 

I call my HD a motorbike so jiffystand doesn't really bother me. Plus jiffy rhymes with stiffy so it makes me smile inside when I say it.

 

Pretty much the silliest name I've ever heard given to a mc part. But then, they kind of talked funny back in the 40's.

Here's what I googled...

Originally, most bikes had a frame mounted 'center stand'. On most older HD models, there was a center stand clipped to the inside of the rear fender requiring the operator to lift the whole back end of the bike to swing it into place under the frame, the "jiffy stand" was a quick easy method of standing the bike up without getting a hernia...the term jiffy stand was coined to distinguish the center stand from the side or "kick" stand as it could be deployed in a 'jiffy'. My 1949 Harley WL has both stands, the center stand is only useful when changing the rear tire on the side of the road.