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Ratmick wrote:Mate it's all good until you go around your first left-hander with the stand down.

And don't tell me you'll always remember...you'd think you'd remember a disk lock on your front wheel and I don't always remember (which is why I have a curly reminder cord).

Mick

im guilty of this lol, ive done it a couple of times, scares the shit out of you coz your dragging something..

BUT seriously...you hop on the bike flicking the stand up as you go...put on ya gloves and helmet and start her up and away you go.....how is that hard....if you always put your gloves and helmet on after you get on the bike you can have a habit of putting the stand up...but yeah i guess i will have to get one for a roadworthy lol

Nomad

Nomad wrote:BUT seriously...you hop on the bike flicking the stand up as you go...put on ya gloves and helmet and start her up and away you go.....how is that hard....if you always put your gloves and helmet on after you get on the bike you can have a habit of putting the stand up...but yeah i guess i will have to get one for a roadworthy lol

Nomad

Don't take this the wrong way, but perhaps when people who have been riding for ages tell you that sometimes they forget to put it up, and that by extrapolation, they believe there's a good chance you too will forget to put it up every now and then, just take their word for it (or don't ask for advice if you don't want to hear the answer). Just a thought

Nomad wrote:BUT seriously...you hop on the bike flicking the stand up as you go...put on ya gloves and helmet and start her up and away you go.....how is that hard....if you always put your gloves and helmet on after you get on the bike you can have a habit of putting the stand up...but yeah i guess i will have to get one for a roadworthy lol

Mate, bridge your switch out, get your roadworthy, do whatever you want, I'm not your mother. I gave you my opinion, nothing more. If you choose to ignore my opinion I don't really give one as after all it was only my opinion and as such worth jack-shit .

I'm just telling you that one day you will forget and ride off with the stand down. Yep it may not be today, tomorrow or next week but one day when you've had a fight with your girlfriend/had a crap day at work or your rabid ex-wife has been on your back then you will forget. Hopefully it may fold up of its own accord when you go around your first left-hander, but if you're unlucky it will dig in and throw you under the wheels of the Mack truck that's turning right at the same intersection. But hey, it's your choice, you may miss the truck and only partake in a bit of tarmac surfing. Your skin, your bike, your choice, just do it.

Maybe I have a bit more on my mind but I let the clutch out on the Hornet every now and again with the stand down. The bike cuts out and I swear at myself. In my defence it's normally at night at the end of a long day and most of the time I am standing in front of my shed after getting off and opening the door and I'm trying to get the bike inside...but still it happens and probably always will. Because of this I won't ride a bike with a dodgy side-stand switch. My choice, my skin, my bike and I wouldn't do it.

Mick

My old '89 GPX had a busted side-stand switch - was never noticed in the rego check by my mechanic, but that's not to say others won't notice.
Like Mick though, with the early starts and late nights I was doing it was easy to forget to put it up, and I did forget a couple of times. No matter how much of a habit you try to get yourself into there's always the time or two that you think you've done something but haven't.
Almost worse than not putting the stand up before you go is thinking you've put it down when you stop, when you haven't. That's always an embarrassing drop.
ty

ty wrote:Almost worse than not putting the stand up before you go is thinking you've put it down when you stop, when you haven't. That's always an embarrassing drop.
ty

haha done that one! bike fell onto my leg

agreed, mate the amount of time i have jumped on my roadie in a rush and knocked her into gear and the engine dies is uncountable lolz.

without that switch i would have been stuck a few times, like the boys say its up to you, but its a safety switch and its there for a reason to get yourself out of some trouble then yer by all means bridge it and go without.

but for $20 you get the piece of mind that you wont take off with your stand down,
cause you WILL one day

sorry if i sounded rude....i was just saying that so far its been habit i do it in that order and i dont continue till i have done that lol but yea i know one day i will....i havent dropped my bike yet neither i am very careful when i start to hop off the bike the rear suspension reujusts itself and i let it go slowly lol if it moves i figure out why if it doesnt then its all good lol

Nomad