I had one. One day with the bike on a lift, I was cleaning and polishing things and when I ran the rag across the pad the scuffed up chrome on the edge sliced my finger open...
Not a put-down, just a warning.
Last year, while trying to bypass a parade in a small town, I ran over an asphalt curb at an angle going into a side street. It ripped the pad right off the kickstand and bent the crap out of the thing where it slides over the stand. I thought of getting another one, but haven't...yet.
