Valk kick stand annoyance
brew1brew:
I guess it's just me then :evil:
Quote from: Paxton on July 26, 2014, 01:46:36 PM
Humm... never heard that one but then... what size boot do you wear? :-X
8.5 usa.
it doesn't happen all that often, I'll just have to pay closer attention when I stop.
Bagger:
Quote from: brew1brew on July 26, 2014, 05:35:45 PM
I guess it's just me then :evil:
Quote from: Paxton on July 26, 2014, 01:46:36 PM
Humm... never heard that one but then... what size boot do you wear? :-X
8.5 usa.
it doesn't happen all that often, I'll just have to pay closer attention when I stop.
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.
R J:
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.
Bagger:
I was thinking a bit ... between conversations with Kris, watching a movie on TV and typing / reading stuff Online.
Here's a couple deals I tho't about.
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.
Of course this is stupid stuff that I'm typing ... I have no idea, just guessing.
That said, when I come to a stop, I gear down and have BOTH feet on the ground at stop with clutch / brake engaged. Some times, I'm in neutral if the stop is particularly long. But, if you can't have both feet 'on the ground' this may be part of the problem ???
JMFAO here. :)
Paxton:
Get an Euro Kick stand. It'll go in the right hand side. Problem solved! ;) :2funny:
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