On a little ride today to the mechanic/ tire shop for a motorcycle inspection. In my state we need a current inspection to transfer the title and get plates when any vehicle transfers ownership. Bike passes inspection with flying colors. Grab my paperwork and head home. I pull over on the way home at the overlook to return a phone call. Shut off the bike. Talk on the phone a little and I wanted to pull ahead about 10' to get out of someone's way. I start the bike, it fires right up, I click it in gear, and it dies. Back in neutral, restart bike, clutch in and down into first and it dies again. Flip key on and off, clutch in and out, observe cable moving to clutch. Scratch head for a little while. Flip gearshift up and down to confirm its shifting. Restart bike again, fires right up, runs great, shift into gear and bike instantly dies. What the? I'm thinking- how do I get this stupid bike back to my shop to figure out what's wrong with it- what a pain this is going to be. Going to have to call the wife and have her come pick me up, then come back and load it up, and dig into whatever is wrong electrically that's killing the bike when it goes into gear. Just what I need- a electrical gremlin to find. And then I swung the kickstand up.
If there is anybody who has not done this I'll call them a liar Many years ago I was travelling back from 'That London' to Kent on the hated 500 Honda (The only bike to leave an oil slick outside the Hammersmith Odeon when ZZ Top were doing the Eliminator tour. There were lots of bikes outside) I was well down the M20 (about Sidcup) when I was frantically undertaken by a driver getsiculating wildly at the bike. He was drawing my attention to the fact that my sidestand was down. So I don't mind feeling a moron when I forget about the cutoff switches we now have
MO moron, has a nice ring to it. Joplin area? Seen a kid on one of those Groms do this for about 15 minutes at a QT before I yelled kickstand, he flipped me off
No, I'm further east and south in Branson. You can see table rock lake from my house if there aren't leaves on the trees. I'm about a 1/4 mile from the dam. I've never ridden anything that had a kickstand safety. Of course if I had a owners manual, and actually read the owners manual, I would have learned that such a thing existed. Learn something new every day.
I did a similar thing. Leave the bike in gear and it will not start. Turns over plenty, until the battery dies, but absolutely will not start. My old Laverda got around this silly requirement (that prevents riders from motoring away with the stand down) by making the stand spring loaded to snap up when pressure of the bike was released. Knocked over the stupid thing more than once because of it. So I guess it saved my life, but crushed my legs.
Yeah- some of your kansas roads aren't too senic out in the plains. Cape Fair to Shell knob down 76 is a nice little ride
just put it down to "an extended kick stand test" and it passed with flying colours ...... We've all done it!!!
