I rode to the local metal scrap place and bought a 1 1/4 inch square piece of steel tubing.
As you may recall, I didn't like the severe lean angle my G5 would sit at when it was resting on the sidestand. I added a square piece of aluminum tubing to the bottom of the "foot" on the kick stand to improve this.
Far be it from me to actually forget the side stand was down and ride off with it that way so lets just say the bottom of that aluminum tube got scraped up somehow.
The thin wall became thinner until I could see thru a bit of it so I decided to change it with a piece of steel tubing.
$3.00 less for 18 inches of tubing and 15 minutes to saw off a short length of the new tubing and to drill the two mounting screw holes and mount it and it was a done deal.