First Good Ride and First Bad Occurance

[mikatollah]

I dropped mine a while back while backing into a service station parking space. I misjudged the slight incline and was rocking side to side just a bit to push the bike back when my right foot landed in a patch of grease. I only slipped a couple of inches, but the bike was already leaning that way and was going down. All I was able to do was break the fall a bit.

The t-rex sliders worked as advertized and the only damage was a small scrape on the underside of the right bag. I found out that the tipover cutout switch works as advertized too. It shut off the engine as I went down.

 

[SaharaJp99]

I dropped mine a while back while backing into a service station parking space. I misjudged the slight incline and was rocking side to side just a bit to push the bike back when my right foot landed in a patch of grease. I only slipped a couple of inches, but the bike was already leaning that way and was going down. All I was able to do was break the fall a bit.

The t-rex sliders worked as advertized and the only damage was a small scrape on the underside of the right bag. I found out that the tipover cutout switch works as advertized too. It shut off the engine as I went down.

Very interesting. I did not know that these had a tipover cutoff. How long does it have to be on its side to work?

I dropped mine while straddling it taking a picture in a gravel lot on a very windy day at the Great Sand Dunes and mine didn't shut off on its own. I did have it turned off within seconds of dropping it though. Maybe I didn't give it long enough, but this is one circuit I am not willing to purposely test!

Mine had the same damage, couple scrapes on the bag and a small dent on the bottom of the can.

 

[Fred W]

The tip over switch should cut the engine instantly. It is comprised of a little pendulum weighted affair that disables the ignition as soon as the angle exceeds a given amount. It will never cutout the ignition when under way, like when navigating a sharp turn because the centrifugal force keeps the weighted pendulum up where it needs to be.

Yeah, I'm a member of the "code 30" club. But that's not how I learned how the gravity switch works. I took mine apart on the side of the road one day in Punxatawney, PA when my bike would not run. It wasn't the problem (I found the real culprit, a broken wire) , but I learned something new about that switch that day.

 

[SaharaJp99]

Well, it looks like I'll have to dig threw the service manual to figure out a way to test and diagnose this without actually "testing" it, as I definitely had to shut my bike down myself when it went over! I'm still under factory warranty, and will buy the Y.E.S. warranty before it runs out, but I'm not sure I trust my local dealer to "test" this safety feature either!

 

[Fred W]

Well, it looks like I'll have to dig threw the service manual to figure out a way to test and diagnose this without actually "testing" it, as I definitely had to shut my bike down myself when it went over! I'm still under factory warranty, and will buy the Y.E.S. warranty before it runs out, but I'm not sure I trust my local dealer to "test" this safety feature either!

It's pretty easy to test. Just disconnect the switch from the frame and hold it its normal orientation. Start the bike up and then tilt the switch in the direction it would move if the bike was laid down. The engine should cut off and you should get a code 20 error on your LCD screen.

 

[Blue Crab]

I consider the centerstand to be less stable than the side stand, so I only use the centerstand in my garage during maintenance, when necessary. On the sidestand, most of the bike's weight is on the wheels, where it belongs, while on the centerstand most of the bike's weight is on two small metal contact patches.

To expand on your comment, when the bike is on its sidestand (and in gear), it will not move forward/backward because the rear wheel is on the ground. With the centerstand, the rear wheel is off the ground and therefore the bike could roll forward, off the stand, should someone bump it hard.