Repeat after me: "I must not pop wheelies in Mayfair"

Bloody bike did it, not me. God, that Street Trip is fun. Sorry, all you
citizens of Upper Grosvenor Street.

 

"Older Gentleman makes spectacle of himself within spitting distance
of Shepherds Market"

Why can't you just wave at the ladies of purchased virtue like the
rest of us you show off.

Boxerboy

 

I hoiked it by accident on the approach to Vauxhall roundabout from Oval
a while back. In second. I didn't dare look at the speedo.

 

Nor I. In a hurry to get home, round Grosvenor Square, into Upper
Grosvenor Street heading for Park Lane, gassed it in first to get past a
taxi, and oh dear.

It's not like there are many coppers round Grosvenor Square anyway.

(Bloody marvellous bike)

 

I had a wheelie competition along the A12 with a guy on a
Ducati Streetfighter yesterday. His may have been faster,
but mine was longer and higher!

 

The Yammy RDs are good for unintended wheelies.

The RD200 had worn pivots on the advancer weights which then came to rest on
a ridge on the assemby and not closing properly at low revs - needing to
accelerate urgently to escape some myopic car driver I opened the throttle
and not much happened, so I banged it down a couple of cogs which of course
increased the revs to the point where the advancer suddenly worked
again.............

The 350LC had a flaky sidestand kill switch which intermittently caused one
or both pots to cut out - banging it down a couple of cogs usually cleared
it but could be a little too exciting.

 

ian field wrote:

None of my 4LO RD350LCs had a sidestand cut out switch, can't remember
if the F2 did or not.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

The 400/4 does not have a switch, ISTR sidestand switches became mandatory
for some markets in the 1980s so manufacturers fitted them as standard.
But ICBW on the date.
There is probably some reference in the Motor Vehicles (Construction and
use) Regulations but ICBA to look it up.

Anyone who has been daft enough to ride off with the sidestand down will
agree that switches are good idea when they take the first left hander.

 

Relevant to RDs how, exactly?

Don't think so. I'm pretty sure that some bikes continue(d) to be made
without them.

No they won't. They're a right PITA, completely unnecessary. And IME
the only times I've had probs of that sort were caused by ungreased
joints that allowed the stand to move back a little bit, but still
stay out enough to catch the ground.

 

As are TZ350s, especially if you let them drop out of the powerband,
then when opening the throttle does nothing, change down a gear.

 

I always liked that Honda idea of a little rubber tongue projecting
down from the sidestand, to catch the ground and flick the stand back
up before anything solid hit the deck. That was an incredibly neat and
simple solution to the problem, IMHO

 

Yes, but they kept breaking and leaving the owners with big bills.

 

Is the right answer. Having an engine cut-out switch exposed at a low
level is asking for a malfunction at seem point.

 

Damn! Eider said that.

 

The CBX550 has a rubber strip bolted to the end of the sidestand that
(unless you throw it into the first left hander) just catches the ground
enough to flick the sidestand up - there's no switch.

 

I popped a totally accidental one between two sets of lights in Manchester
City centre as I tried to beat the 2nd set. I didn't beat them and had to
stop. The plod who pulled up alongside just looked at me and shook his head.
This was a couple of years ago and it *was* a Sunday, so there wasn't a huge
amount of traffic and I reckon that's what allowed me to get away with it.

These modern bike things pop up far too easily.

 

I don't know, but I know a guy who wrote off a VN750 that wasn't his when he
rode off with the side stand down. Like someone else said, the first left
hander and it dug in and flipped the bike arse over tit.
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Old MZ's were diabolical, with a huuuge sidestand that hung off the rear
axle. Couple of chaps at school had TS150 then 250's and I watched them go
down gently.

 

Mmm, I dunno about that. I use it to kill the engine when I park up and it's
never given any trouble and it's only a pissy little micro switch when all
said and done, so replacing a faulty one should take all of 10 minutes.

How many people have ridden "off" when they forgot to remove a disc lock
resulting if a fairly hefty bill and a few hours stuck by the roadside for
want of a front brake?

I imagine there are a few who've ridden off and crashed because they forgot
to lift the stand too. Can't happen with a cut-out switch.

 

It's sort of difficult to do that kind of thing on a CB500 unless you're
really trying. The only time I've wheelied it by mistake was being caught
out by the lights changing whilst filtering up to a roundabout coming off
the M27, dropping the clutch in 2nd and emerging between the last two cars
on one wheel.

Wheelies and filtering and roundabouts don't really mix.