Don't dismount w engine running!

[Freebooter]

Don't dismount w engine running! I am 60, have had surgery on rt knee, right foot, injuries to hip n back in car wrecks, etc. Due to pain in leg, back and hip due to old injuries, etc I dismount by putting bike in nuetral, kickstand down, stand on pegs, and dismount just like u do when you dismount from a horse. I usually turn my engine off. But sometimes I turn it off after I dismount. Twice I barely touched my gear shift lever while it was running and knocked it into 1st gear as I was dismounting. Today it did that and lurched foward into wall of my front porch and fell over. Slung my butt a winding! From now on I WILL have that engine turned off.
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[VTagle]

If you're side stand is down, would it shut the engine off as soon it got into gear? I do agree to shut the engine off first before dismounting or mount with engine off. Same thing happened to me on my Hyperstrada with defective stand switch. Bike lurched forward and fell.

 

[Freebooter]

Yes it cuts of but it jumps or lurches jus it cuts off. My bad leg is hurting ever since that happened this afternoon.

 

[WJBertrand]

Yeah, did the same thing at a gas station, luckily in my case I was able to avoid dropping the bike. The shifter doesn't take much of touch to drop into gear does it? I didn't even feel in.


-Jeff

 

[Hungry Tiger]

I mount/dismount the same way. Engine running in neutral or engine off, just hold the front brake lever in while going thru the motion.

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[Freebooter]

You r right it doesn't take much. Sorta like a hair trigger. Lol. And yes the other time that happened was at a gas station.

 

[barkingllizard]

I mount/dismount the same way. Engine running in neutral or engine off, just hold the front brake lever in while going thru the motion.

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[Ramseybella]

In all my years I have never got off a bike while it was running.
Well not intentionally in some cases..

 

[Stridey]

I mount/dismount the same way. Engine running in neutral or engine off, just hold the front brake lever in while going thru the motion.

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Wouldn't the clutch lever be better in this case?

 

[RhodeTrip]

Wouldn't the clutch lever be better in this case?

That is what I do. I let bike warm up then grab the clutch and swing my leg over.
Jim

 

[Andylaser]

Dont see why you would want to dismount if the engine was running??

 

[rem]

Dont see why you would want to dismount if the engine was running??

That would be when Officer Bigdog eyeballs your northern licence plates and says "keep them hands where I can see 'em, and get off that bike NOW, boy " ..... or similar circumstances.


R ::018::

 

[Freebooter]

Lol! Officer BigDog! That's funny!
Andylaser, sometimes for one reason or another I just wanna hear it run for a moment. But you can rest asured I tyrn it ioff and pay attention from now on.

 

[WJBertrand]

I don't ever dismount with the engine running, I think dropped something that one time it happened to me. Couldn't reach it without getting off.


-Jeff

 

[RockyDS]

I will dismount with the engine running when I leave my bike to warm up, otherwise I don't think I ever have. But when I have, I have never done so by standing on the pegs, which makes dropping it in to gear quite easy. I have my left foot on the ground. Long legs help.

Good heads up though.

 

[bphilip]

The first time I dropped my bike was getting on using the peg with the engine running. I use the clutch religiously now whenever I get on.

 

[Cycledude]

99% of the time when I park the bike it's in gear, that's a hard learned lesson from many years ago, before cell phones I needed to make a quick call from a pay phone , parked the bike in neutral and as I was running across the street to the phone I heard the crash, bike was on a slight slope just enough to let it roll forward and fold up the side stand , busted the windshield but it was a good lesson and nothing like that ever happened again but I've witnessed it happening to a few others.
I also use the step on foot peg to mount method, even though its usually in gear I always hold the front brake while mounting. Not sure why but I usually put the Bike in neutral and start it before mounting.

 

[JRE]

Interesting...I almost always mount while engine is running and in neutral but I'm very mindful of where I step...I should probably grab the clutch just in case.

 

[Freebooter]

My lesson was learned. When I dismount my engine is OFF!

 

[JRE]

I guess I should've noted that I never dismount with the engine on. My habit is to turn the ignition of first thing.