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Awful but you still alive happily, Thierry PONCET, a froggie died on his S1 some years ago when he forgot his side stand and Brian Mac OWen, who sadly died two months ago could have also forgot his side stand.

Glad you are essentially ok. The abrasion under the boot is pretty common, simple really just transferred movement, had it a couple of times myself.
I wouldn't have a cutout switch myself, maybe a light with a microswitch as Jim suggested. If you really wanted a cutout look to some 80's Kawasaki's 80's Z's,GT's and GPz's came with them here.

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well I'm not German, but I know that every bike now (since '76 ??) has a system that as soon as you level you're bike from the side stand it has to flip back.
I've ridden Günter Sanders's H1F and recal a system with two springs making sure the side stand flips back as there is no more load on it.

sorry to hear of you're accident

Sorry to hear about your crash. The important thing is that you are OK and not hurt too badly.

Rigging a light would be easy...reed switch and a magnet. Rigging an auto up sidestand is going to take some thought.

I've seen a system on BMWs that automatically retract the sidestand when you stand the bike up. I've also seen more than a couple of BMWs lying on their side when the rider realized that they forgot something and got right back off the bike and started to walk away.

A friend of mine is a scooter dealer. A couple of the Chinese models that he sells won't start if the kickstand is down. I think that would also be an easy mod for the triples.

Jeff

1st off VERY glad to see you escaped without serious injury. That had to be one scary ride.

And as has been stated, it sucks to see the bike all wadded up, but the important thing is that you are ok.


There are so many "cheap" sidestand switches on ebay that would be easy to modify and fit to these bikes. Personally, I like the plunger type that, when fully extended will not allow a bike to start.

I too am glad you are OK and bikes can be repaired. Sorry you have to go through this.

I don't have trouble with any bike getting the side stand up besides my H1!? The H2 is never a problem but I have left with the side stand down on the H1 many times. I don't know what the deal is.

A switch connected through the neutral light so you can start it, but if you loose the neutral light (put it in gear) with the stand down the engine looses spark. Most new bikes are like this. It doesn't sound hard to do.

From your experience I think I will build something for the H1.

Now if I could remember to put the center stand up......

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Since we're on the subject, it is also possible for your side stand to drop down while riding. This was happening to me on our ride around Lake Huron 2009. Once on the freeway for an extended 80MPH run the stand vibrated down -- it didn't lock, so when a left sweeper came up it scraped and sparked and scared the crap out of me, but that was all. The spring is fine, but it is an S3 stand on an H2...just something else to check.