Your own annoying habits?

**Daffyd** · 6th October 2008, 20:12

Me? No annoying habits. I'm perfect!

Well................actually, how about getting all packed up for another day's travel on a tour, and no key. Now, where is that key? I know; in the little pocket/cubbyhole thingy in the tent!

Unload bike, unroll tent, retrieve keys, piss boys off cos they're all waiting, roll tent up again, load bike again, leave.

Wouldn't be game to do it a second time.

**turtleman** · 6th October 2008, 20:16

Originally Posted by MarkH

So, how does that work exactly? You can start the bike but it kills the ignition if you attempt to get rolling when the stand is down?

On mine you cannot start with the side stand down and if you flick the stand down while the engine is running then the engine cuts out.

Mine works like this:

1. Side stand down, bike in neutral - bike starts.
2. Side stand up, bike in gear. Bike won't start unless clutch is pulled in.
3. Engine running, bike in neutral Sidestand down. If Bike is put in gear (with clutch engaged), engine stops.

Basically, you can't stuff it up.

**discotex** · 7th October 2008, 07:20

Originally Posted by rie

get home after shitty day at work. kill switch. turn ignition off. drop bike to left only to realise with blinding panic that i'd forgotten to pop the sidestand down.

sometimes when i'm too tired to pull the bike back up i contemplate letting it drop. [after diving underneath to save the fairings of course.]

You could have just skipped the kill switch and key and used the tilt switch to turn the bike off

Interesting on that SV forum how many people use their kickstand switch to turn their bike off. Good way to remember to put the sidestand down.

**vifferman** · 7th October 2008, 07:32

Originally Posted by discotex

Interesting on that SV forum how many people use their kickstand switch to turn their bike off. Good way to remember to put the sidestand down.

I do that if I have to park with the bike facing downhill. Then I let the clutch out and let it roll forward to take the slack out of the drivetrain before leaning it over. Makes absolutely sure the stand doesn't fold up.

Originally Posted by phantom

Go to cancel my indicator and in my normal uncoordinated manner hit the horn button instead. What makes it better is I have fitted one of those loud as Stebel horns. Bloody hard to pretend it wasn't me

I've never done that.

Gives you a fright, dunnit?

**Oscar** · 7th October 2008, 08:05

Originally Posted by =cJ=

What the hell's this fancy kickstand cutout crapola, sheesh.

**points pipe at OP**

You just gotta learn to do things right...

/me mutters about nanny state, health and safety gone mad etc...

I just had to remove the switch from my KTM640.
If you ride on beaches or in clay, the thing gets gummed up (happened to Ewens 1200GS in LWD). Yer riding along and the thing suddenly cuts out...

**dpex** · 7th October 2008, 17:24

Personally, I HATE that stand-cut-out. I can't count the number of times I've tried to click to neutral, failed, kicked down the stand for silence, and left the bloody key on, with the lights blazing, and come back to a dead battery.

I don't understand why the makers put this switchg in place. After all, the moment the stand touches during a lefter it will flick up, anyway.

I HATE that switch.