Thank you all for your help and best wishes. Having looked at “motorcycle landing gear” I don’t think it is something for me!
Having thought about it each time I dropped the K13 it was because I put my foot down and there was either nothin there or if there was it was it was so low it was beyond the point of no return. Once it was because my foot slipped on loose gravel. I didn’t have a problem riding it at low speeds, just with the weight.
I have looked at a number of slow riding techniques on Google and think that my best idea is, as I said earlier, to have a “practise day” to get used to the enormous weight, throttle control, clutch biting point and hopefully boost my confidence.
Cheers all,
Tony