# Rule Number One of Riding
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [April 30, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590 "2012-04-30T17:36:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/1 "2012-04-30T17:36:07Z")
Make sure your kick stand is up…:ponder:ponder
Do yourself a favor, make it a habit to _ **visually** _ check and make sure it is up. Better yet, take the freaking kick stand off if you are at the track. Guy is lucky since he is at a track, otherwise he may have just ran off a cliff or ran into on coming traffic…
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qY-RZLKLmU[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qY-RZLKLmU%5B/ame%5D)
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/2 "2012-04-30T17:38:57Z")
I saw a guy on a harley start riding with his kick stand down a few weeks ago. I yelled to get him to stop and he didn’t hear me over his gutless dump. Lucky it folded up when it scraped.
My dad got into a really bad crash when he was younger because he got pissed and took off without putting the stand up. Went down at like 100. He got lucky.
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### Author:  [@aero93](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/aero93)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/3 "2012-04-30T17:45:34Z")
my bike stalls when the kick stand is down
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/4 "2012-04-30T17:46:15Z")
You can start it with it down though, right? It should only stall when the stand goes from up to down.
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### Author:  [@RTrac1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RTrac1)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/5 "2012-04-30T17:54:18Z")
usually those systems are tied into the neutral light.
once you put it in gear with the stand down it stalls.
early buells were like that, they changed it with my model year for some reason so i definitely need to be mindful.
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### Author:  [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/6 "2012-04-30T17:55:37Z")
It should stall as soon as its put into gear…UNLESS you have a non OEM stand, I had an adjustable height one on the Kawi and it did not stall when it was down.
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### Author:  [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/7 "2012-04-30T21:11:17Z")
> [@First bike... R6 vs CBR 600?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/first-bike-r6-vs-cbr-600/49387/40):
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> Make sure your kick stand is up…:ponder:ponder
>
> Do yourself a favor, make it a habit to _ **visually** _ check and make sure it is up. Better yet, take the freaking kick stand off if you are at the track. Guy is lucky since he is at a track, otherwise he may have just ran off a cliff or ran into on coming traffic…
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> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qY-RZLKLmU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qY-RZLKLmU)
This seems to happen to a lot of track guys, IDK why you would even have the stand down at the line. Also I guess they gut the bike to get rid of as much weight as possible. So i could see someone removing the switch that stalls out the bike when the kick stand is down. to save those few oz of weight.:lol
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### Author:  [@Skidplate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skidplate)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/8 "2012-04-30T21:32:38Z")
> [@What's wrong with autox???](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-wrong-with-autox/49407/45):
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> This seems to happen to a lot of track guys, IDK why you would even have the stand down at the line. Also I guess they gut the bike to get rid of as much weight as possible. So i could see someone removing the switch that stalls out the bike when the kick stand is down. to **save those few oz of weight**.:lol
Jeez. and I though BMX riders were weight whores.
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### Author:  [@Allstar\_Graphics](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Allstar_Graphics)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/9 "2012-05-06T20:10:18Z")
My dad said he did that once and went off into a field
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/10 "2012-05-06T22:24:38Z")
My dad’s wreck was way harder than your dads.
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### Author:  [@crAppAchic0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/crAppAchic0)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/11 "2012-05-07T06:56:24Z")
People leave kickstands on track bikes? (not trying to be sarcastic, really asking)
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### Author:  [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2012, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/12 "2012-05-07T08:35:23Z")
> [@crAppAchic0"](#):
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> People leave kickstands on track bikes? (not trying to be sarcastic, really asking)
I sure as hell would I’m lazy like that.:lol
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### Author:  [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2012, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/13 "2012-05-07T09:12:44Z")
> [@crAppAchic0"](#):
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> People leave kickstands on track bikes? (not trying to be sarcastic, really asking)
A pure track/race only bike? No.
A street bike that people take to ride on the track? Depends on club rules, most likely yes.
That video looks to me like that guy is just doing a trackday on his street bike. which explains the kick stand. Either he disabled the switch or the switch is faulty.
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### Author:  [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rule-number-one-of-riding/263590/14 "2012-05-07T13:56:46Z")
> [@Replacement for the 07 Commander........](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/replacement-for-the-07-commander/49458/41):
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> A pure track/race only bike? No.
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> A street bike that people take to ride on the track? Depends on club rules, most likely yes.
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> That video looks to me like that guy is just doing a trackday on his street bike. which explains the kick stand. Either he disabled the switch or the switch is faulty.
He had to have disabled it.