<Waah> My sidestand is a poopie!
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Actually, it IS a design issue. Any good engineering design should be such that it eliminates or reduces the chance of operator error, not increase it. All I am suggesting doing is fixing it so that it works like it should. I don't understand why this seems to bother folks.
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Fine email Yamaha. If I had a nickel for every time I heard a guy say there was a design flaw with the "autodeployment feature" of his sidestand on bike X,Y, or Zed, I'd have like 47 nickels.
This a colinear, two-wheeled, 150 HP, human manipulated automobile. Operator error is inherent in the design. That's why we wear helmets and buy TOGs. If you try to improve the design, we'll simply breed better 'operators'. I am still waiting to meet the engineer who can out-think the ability of John Q. Public to do stupid shit.
And good engineering design? Give it a rest. If I swung a dead cat in this forum I'd hit like 47 engineers, technicians, and serious wrenchheads. All this package grabbing over the AE, "I can shift twice as many times in 30 seconds on the AE as the A." That'd be great if you had ten close gears, or the FJR was a bloody DRAG BIKE. I'm sure back in the day when you guys all got your FIRST FJR, after riding it for a week you thought to yourself, "Gee this is SWELL, but what I really want is pushbutton sub-100 millisecond shifts". I sure hope the firmware coders for the AE controller really exercised all the ways the sensors could fail. You enjoy those new model year bikes.
Just wait till you start hearing about the older AE guys who forget what they're riding and do a throttle blip at an intersection and find themselves left on their asses watching as their bike unicycles crazily across 4 lanes of traffic to its utter demise (careful with that one guys!). Then they'll curse good engineering design. By Thor's mighty hammer I swear it.
The stand does work as it should. You fools don't honestly believe that grinding that tang or moving that spring is going to gurantee you push that sucker all the way out do you? Or that the stand, if deployed near vertical, will always fall towards the tang instead of folding up? For that bike to fall over (as you tools have admitted), the stand has to be on or before the six o'clock position, you let me know how grinding that tang or repostioning the spring is going to make that stand 'magically' fall forward over the fulcrum point. I smell shit and lots of it.
This is a problem of inattentiveness.
Maybe someday you'll develop the skill to understand that a motorcycle is truly an unstable system and when it is what we in the engineering business call 'stopped' is incapable of maintaining balance 'open loop'. Maybe someday you'll appreciate the value of your 11,000 to 14,000 dollar bike and really take the time to make sure the stand is down.
Maybe you'll learn to kick out that stand, rake your hair back, lean the bike over, take one last suck on that sweet, sweet Marlboro before you drop that big black boot on it (and incidentally directly behind the stand), and then drag that shiny blue missile backwards in neutral to really make sure that stand is against the tang before you release your grip.
You know, like the adults do. If you have a problem with this, please see the instructions below and get off yourself.
