Valk kick stand annoyance
brew1brew:
Quote from: Bagger on July 26, 2014, 06:16:49 PM
Depends on how long your legs are. If you have a 8.5 boot size, I'm guessing you have legs shorter than my 36 pants size, eh? If so, when I put my boot down ... my leg is farther from the bike than yours with the same / same saddle height. Correct?
This may have you put your foot / boot closer to the tang on the KS and engage same. Causing the failure to have power when the light changes.
you may be partially right. I have a 30" inseam. I can just sit flat footed.
Quote from: Bagger on July 26, 2014, 05:54:43 PM
Wonder if it's your pants? Perhaps they are longish and trip the KS tab?
I'm like a 10 USA size boot and wear lots of different boots ... western, combat, engineer, yada, yada. I'm always in boots.
Never had this issue ???
Hope you find out how this happens. Could be a safety issue IMO.
No, it's the heal of my boot. not my pants. Quote from: R J on July 26, 2014, 06:02:27 PM
Let it be said before hand,
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
Okay, now that we got that taken care of.
When we 1st got the Kawa motors on the CHP, a couple of us had that problem.
We were putting our foot down tooooo close to the side of the bike.
We'd accidentally hit the Kick stand and omph, she'd die. Very embarrassing if we did it at a light just as it changed to GREEN.
To this day, when riding 2 wheels, I have a tendency to lean to the left and put my foot out to the left a little further.
Yup, you know how I feel. but I haven't killed the bike but two times, both while the light was still red.
Jess from VA:
What I am thinking is that the little round bar you use to put your kickstand down is bent too far out and you are accidentally catching it. Center your bike up in a chock or on the jack (on the ground). With the kickstand UP, is the little bar tucked nicely up in the cutout in the OE exhaust? If not, put a small piece of PVC or pipe over the little bar and bend it so it fits snugly up in the exhaust cutout.
Also, is your kickstand return spring shot?
I also have a short inseam (boards and heel toe shifter) and never had this problem. The little round bar can get bent a bit from a variety of causes, I have repositioned mine in this manner before.
EDIT: I see from your avatar you have cobras, so you probably do not have an exhaust cutout..... still, bend the deployment bar tighter to the bike when up.
brew1brew:
Quote from: Jess from VA on July 27, 2014, 05:04:35 AM
What I am thinking is that the little round bar you use to put your kickstand down is bent too far out and you are accidentally catching it. Center your bike up in a chock or on the jack (on the ground). With the kickstand UP, is the little bar tucked nicely up in the cutout in the OE exhaust? If not, put a small piece of PVC or pipe over the little bar and bend it so it fits snugly up in the exhaust cutout.
Also, is your kickstand return spring shot?
I also have a short inseam (boards and heel toe shifter) and never had this problem. The little round bar can get bent a bit from a variety of causes, I have repositioned mine in this manner before.
EDIT: I see from your avatar you have cobras, so you probably do not have an exhaust cutout..... still, bend the deployment bar tighter to the bike when up.
Keep in mind that we are on the 1800 board, and although I still have my 2002 standard photo as my avitar, we are on the 1800 board. So with that in mind, we are talking about the 2014 valk, not the 2002 valk. :evil:
PS I updated my profile to prevent further confusion.
Jess from VA:
Sorry, I'll look closer in the future. :-X
brew1brew:
Quote from: Jess from VA on July 27, 2014, 03:55:42 PM
Sorry, I'll look closer in the future. :-X
no worries, it just gives us some entertainment factor! :evil:
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