First near miss on new bike

[Wonko The Sane]

The kawasaki's stand is positioned so you have to put your foot between peg and gear lever unlike he Honda where it's behind the peg.

Had got the bike out of the garden into the back alley which is gravel chippings and attempted to lower the stand to go close the gate

Knocked it into gear and plastered my neighbours shed in stone chippings.

Could have been worse, on a solid surface the bike would have rocketed up my back alley which would have been expensive and painful.
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[pinkyfloyd]

[noobRider]

One of the "foibles" of my guzzi is that the side stand thing is between the gear shift and the footpeg and is almost impossible to get out. It also flicks back up unless the bike is solidly resting on it. I don't even try to set it down until I'm off the bike. It's only a matter of time until I drop it
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[Ghost]

Same with my GSXR, it's got race rearsets on it which make the stand a pain to hook with my heel, and when I'm wearing jeans 9 times out of 10 I'll hook them on the footpeg and shit myself before I can pull them off and get the stand down quick. You get the hang of it eventually though

[Jefr0]

So you went to put your sidestand down and kicked it into gear.

Instead of it stalling and jumping forward, it wheelspinned and kicked up stones!? Level ground and you would have rocketed??

When putting the sidestand down are you holding full throttle or something
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Rides: Honda XR 125 ('03) Honda CBR 600F ('91), Ducati 916 Biposto ('95)

[Eddie Hitler]

Oh, wow. I look forward to your next installment of "boring shit".

[Sable]

[Wonko The Sane]

[Islander]

[Sable]

[Sable]

Just googled Sidestand Switches. Whole first page of google is people asking how to disable them.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=sidestand+switch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gl=uk&redir_esc=&ei=OkGKUYegOqbP0AX7nIDQBg

Tells me what I need ta know. Never want one of them feckers on a bike

[Islander]

That's not the way the switch works on my Hornet or my OH's Zephyr. You can start and run the bike on the stand as long as it's in neutral. Put it in gear with the stand down and the engine cuts out. Not being able to run the bike with the stand down is a rather stupid design IMO.

Having said that, I've seen a fair few people ride off with sidestands down. Sometimes they were lucky and the stand got flipped back by the forward motion of the bike, other times the stand dug in and flipped the bike round and threw the rider off.

I don't mind them myself but each to his own I suppose.

[James83]

The ZX6R is even better, you can put it in gear, and it cuts the engine as you let the clutch out. Guaranteed to make you look like a tit when you try to ride off with the stand down, because it looks like a stall

[Alpha-9]

When I had a hotwired ignition the sidestand switch made a nice killswitch
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[J.M.]