kickstand sensor

[Muskoka KTM]

i have a 19 690 and the other week i was fast trail riding and the bike died. stopped and fired back up no problem. im thinking the hard bumps jiggled the kickstand to trip the safety sensor? make sense to anyone?

[NoFiddyPilot]

Possible I suppose, although I never had that issue in rough terrain.  There are tricky dicky more expensive kits to bypass it, but here's a guy that did his for less than a dollar...

 

[Goleta_Slim]

It happened to me when I bottom out my 701.  I ended up taping the sensor and magnet together and routing it under the seat.  When I know I'm about to get in some serious stuff I'll use the little rubber loop to ensure the kickstand stays up.  

[Kwota]

On 9/30/2020 at 10:12 AM, Muskoka KTM said:

i have a 19 690 and the other week i was fast trail riding and the bike died. stopped and fired back up no problem. im thinking the hard bumps jiggled the kickstand to trip the safety sensor? make sense to anyone?

Yes, my old DRZ supermoto was horrible for this when I took it on singletrack esp. wheeling through whoops or hitting jumps or riding over logs; any big impact would send the kickstand down an inch or two and the power would cut out/bog at the worst time, then cut back in with a bit of a hit when the stand swung back up.

[Mackdaddy4444]

Does anyone know if the 2.2k Ohm Resistor method for bypassing the kickstand switch works on the 2019+ models?  The OEM sensor model number is different for the 2019+ models than that of the 2017 model shown in the YouTube video.  Hate to spend $50-90 on the dongle if I can simply throw a resistor in there...

[andykeck]

On 5/8/2021 at 4:35 AM, Mackdaddy4444 said:

Does anyone know if the 2.2k Ohm Resistor method for bypassing the kickstand switch works on the 2019+ models?  The OEM sensor model number is different for the 2019+ models than that of the 2017 model shown in the YouTube video.  Hate to spend $50-90 on the dongle if I can simply throw a resistor in there...

It does not work. The system is now passing some sort of signal along now, not just checking a resistance. 

[Mackdaddy4444]

Thanks andykeck, I guess I'll buy the dongle if I want to delete the switch. 

[andykeck]

7 hours ago, Mackdaddy4444 said:

Thanks andykeck, I guess I'll buy the dongle if I want to delete the switch. 

The 'tape a magnet to the sensor' trick still works. You can then zip tie the sensor somewhere out of the way. 

[Trailryder42]

I did this on my 1090. Works like a charm. You should use a good magnet tho, like a neodymium. Tape it in place then put some heat shrink over it and zip tie it somewhere out of the way.

[Dougie Quick]

Happened to me two days ago on my 2020 690ER.... I seriously thought I lunched the motor it was so abrupt and intermittant! This big motor does not want to just spin without making power so it sounded/felt terrible cutting in and out.....I had been riding fast over this roller coaster section and I think the kickstand managed to sort of Hoover right on the point of magnetic break....I was so sure it was something really bad I called my wife to bring the pick up.....This was so embarrassing because I think I did something to make it happen....you see I have a real problem with catching the kickstand with my foot to raise it so I took another posters idea and attached a Ram mount ball to the stand as a means to catch it easily with my foot.... you know the kind of ram ball with a U bolt?  Well on the back side of the U bolt uses a thick plastic piece to grip whatever tube you mounting it to and I THINK the Ram mount got a bit loose and rotated enough on the kickstand shaft so the extra thickness was contacting the swing arm just enough it was pushing the stand down! created havock!.....needless to say I took it off now....But I instantly missed the darn thing!  So instead I drilled and tapped two holes threaded for 10=32 one in the kickstand foot and the other perpendicularly into the stand's tube near the bottom. In the foot I threaded a "thumb screw) which I first drilled a clearance hole big enough for a piece of 10=32 all thread....the all thread then passes through the thumb screw and is lock nutted to it threads into the stand it protrudes a few inches and has nuts on either side of thumb screw. to further lock it in nice and tight...then I cut an aluminum spacer to cover the exposed all thread and capped it off with a black plastic ball (taken from a tarp bungie loop toggle) which is also held in place by nuts on either side...way less bulky than the ram mount was and lighter....looks just as dorky but it sure is nice having something to easily catch my fooddt on in order to kick my kickstand up into place!   Not sure why some of us have a hard time and others dont.seem to on this bike?...might be how screwed up my left leg is from previous injuries?   Or I am just an aging clutz?....In our defense however MANY other bikes actually come with a peg welded on the kickstand exactly for this porpoise ....though it is more common on Street bikes I guess. ....anyway if you were thinking about doing the Ram mount idea another 690 rider posted here somewhere?  Well that sure does work well but just know your ride could come to a grinding halt if it comes loose or rotates somehow enough to contact the swingarm!....YMMV....could be dangerous however if bike cuts out at a crucial point!   So I took it OFF....still trying to decide if I should heat shrink  tube a magnet onto the sensor and tie wrap the whole thing well out of harms way?....so many people are SO damn worried about the deadly danger of not having the switch they have infected ME with their paranoia!   LOL   How did I ride motorcycles all those years and never forgot to raise my kickstand?  How am I still alive??   Why have I never even HEARD about someone that rode off with stand down?  But ....seriously now I too have been too paranoid to delete the silly feature on THIS bike....go figure...lol  Because I HAVE without a second thought done so on several other bikes....

Edited September 16, 2021 by Dougie Quick
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