1 post tagged “motorcycle. safety”

My baby (Motorcycle) stopped working last week and I traced it back to the side stand cutoff switch. In the old days my bikes did not even have a side stand kill switch so it was possible to take off down the road  with the side stand down. That can be a dangerous situation. I have heard of riders getting hurt when they for got to raise the kick stand but it had never happened to me. With my eagerness to get back on the road I started devising ways to bypass the switch and just hard wire it. Common sense got the best of me, so I decided to fix the switch instead. It is true I have never crashed because of a lowered side stand but why push my luck. At least now I have figured out how to bypass the switch. If it fails again I should be able to get it going well enough to get me home and order a new switch. Now that I am getting older and hopefully wiser I am more incline to adhere to the motto, safety first.