CBR 1000F "Hurricane" 1987-1996 CBR 1000F

Temp gauge goes off the charts?

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Old Jan 17, 2012 | 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by kiwi TK
Now you've get me all worried......... Does certain death and destruction await me every time I leave the garage?
No, but you will crap your britches if it happens to you and you don't go down.

I've had it happen on different bikes, more often before they started installing the switch. Like Ern says, PoGo. You can pull away from a fuel pump and head down the road to the right. Hopefully the first left turn is not under much speed. Even at a very slow speed the bike will be jolted up like a pole vault. That side-stand is hooked directly to the frame and angled froward, the suspension does not enter the equation. In a left turn the bike is jolted up in the highside direction and you go straight off the turn or into on coming traffic.

I bent the frame on my CB350 years ago. I was lucky I was only going a few MPH.

If you are going to remove the switch, remove the stand also.

On a side note, my brother removed the reverse lockout on his quad. With it the engine misfires in reverse and limits the speed. He figured that by removing it he could go faster in reverse. The very first time he put the quad in reverse, being 4WD, it did a wheel stand in reverse and he braced himself on the bars, this in turn gave it more throttle. He was motoring in reverse at full throttle on the front wheels heading anywhere but where he wanted to go. He told me that when he got the thing back to his garage without any bodily injuries, he hooked the reverse lockout back up immediately. He told me,"They put those things there for a reason."
 
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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 11:27 AM
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I expect that the OP is more likely to forget the kickstand is down on his bike if he has had it for a while with the switch and then he disconnects it, as opposed to if it were an early model without it...

creatures of habit and all that...
 
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