So I pulled over for a break a couple of days ago. Used a bad habit of putting the side stand down to kill the motor. Why? It allows me to leave both hands on the bars till the bike is on the side stand, then I just have to remember to turn the key to off. Like I said bad habit as I could do pretty much the same with the kill switch...... but you still need to remember to turn the key to off.
Back to the tale........I forgot to shut the key off leaving the bike with lights on (Gen 1) for about 10 minutes before I noticed during my break. Nothing new for this geezer and the bike started right up,
As I got my gear back on I couldn't remember ever push jump starting my Gen 1. So I thought this might be a useful training exercise for if it ever does happen. How hard can it be.
Get off the bike and turn on the key and put it in neutral. With all my gear on including ......heavy gloves and glove liners, leather jacket, riding pants, moto boots, and helmet. I started pushing the bike down a very slight grade when it dawned on me that throwing my leg over a stationary Gen 1 is doable, but not exactly easy , uh oh. I do a sort of hop, skip and jump to get right leg up and over the seat and in a position that looked like someone coming off a bike during a high side... sorta helmet down... arse up, levitating......that's when my heavy gloves covered the front brake lever causing full stop bringing my groin crashing down on the back of the tank.
Didn't go down thankfully.
Being four hours from home I thought it best to quit "training".
Thinking about it on the way home. I clearly needed to take the gloves off. If it were a level area that required getting off the bike to push I should have tried to get my left foot onto the left peg and then throw the other leg over and jump it after sitting down. I've seen some sit side saddle instead of throwing leg over.
The other option is jumping the bike while running beside the bike and then pulling in the clutch before you get dragged down the road.
Any insight on jumping a street bike and not crushing your nads?
Back to the tale........I forgot to shut the key off leaving the bike with lights on (Gen 1) for about 10 minutes before I noticed during my break. Nothing new for this geezer and the bike started right up,
As I got my gear back on I couldn't remember ever push jump starting my Gen 1. So I thought this might be a useful training exercise for if it ever does happen. How hard can it be.
Get off the bike and turn on the key and put it in neutral. With all my gear on including ......heavy gloves and glove liners, leather jacket, riding pants, moto boots, and helmet. I started pushing the bike down a very slight grade when it dawned on me that throwing my leg over a stationary Gen 1 is doable, but not exactly easy , uh oh. I do a sort of hop, skip and jump to get right leg up and over the seat and in a position that looked like someone coming off a bike during a high side... sorta helmet down... arse up, levitating......that's when my heavy gloves covered the front brake lever causing full stop bringing my groin crashing down on the back of the tank.
Didn't go down thankfully.
Being four hours from home I thought it best to quit "training".
Thinking about it on the way home. I clearly needed to take the gloves off. If it were a level area that required getting off the bike to push I should have tried to get my left foot onto the left peg and then throw the other leg over and jump it after sitting down. I've seen some sit side saddle instead of throwing leg over.
The other option is jumping the bike while running beside the bike and then pulling in the clutch before you get dragged down the road.
Any insight on jumping a street bike and not crushing your nads?
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