I got into the habit of kicking the bike into neutral, chopping the engine, and kicking out the kickstand all in one motion so that I could virtually drop the bike onto the stand and walk away.
... until one day when I kicked the stand a little too hard and it bounced halfway back. The bike started to go over and I saved it by getting my knee under it, then struggled with it for what must have been 5 minutes in the vacant parking lot until I could get enough leverage to lift the damned thing.
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