Gonna throw this out there even if against the Mods grain.

I appreciate safety devices.
It's not that I am going to do something stupid because I am stupid (which can be argued either way).  It's because I am (getting) old and suffer from bouts of CRS.  Just yesterday, I would have done a pogo if that kickstand switch didn't nudge me by turning off the engine for me.
Why was it down?  Dunno.. I forget.  Did I feel stupid?  No. (but nobody saw me).  I would have felt a lot more stupid if I had pogo'd that bike into the bushes.  Does it happen a LOT?  No.  That was the first time in at least a couple months.
Gene Pool?  What do you care?  I had my three kids and now I have a safety in place for that as well.  

BTW  Serowbot, I really enjoy your posts.

I agree,, safeties are there for a reason,, & doesnt a rubber finger poking down past the stand a coupla inches catch the ground & flip it up before its a pogo stick ride? & that rubber poking out,, will it mess up & keep your bike from running? Mite be more than one way to be human & still be safe.


Not every new Gizmo added to a car is really progress, either,,The Egg Key,
YOu guys seen that? Shove this little eggish shaped thingy into the dash, or, on some cars, just have it IN the car & then crank on the switch or just push a button & whammo,, the car starts,, & Just what on Earth problem does that crap solve? A solution, in search of a problem,,

Guyz,.. I hope everyone understands this thread was somewhat, tongue-in-cheek,...
Of course safety's are important... it's just funny to look at them in total and realise how very many silly things we can do...
... and how some of these safety's just seem to work against us... while they try to protect us...

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verslagen1 wrote on 11/21/12 at 07:49:23:



They do that? I cant imagine wanting my car to shut off after I leave it,,

Is that how they work?
I cant imagine keeping the "egg" after such an event,, the only egg I would keep would be the one I laid in my drawz..

I still prefer the Old ways, This is still a solution in search of a problem,

Well I fixed my mom's lawn mower this weekend.....and it was not the seat safety as I had thought.  The mower stopped as she went down a hill....and I had assumed it must be that seat safety.

Turned out to be another safety switch just doing it's job.  The oil filter had come loose and was slowly leaking oil.  The engine was down about 1/2 a quart and as she nosed down the hill the engine lost oil pressure....and the pressure switch killed the engine.

I removed the old filter, changed the oil, and put a new filter on and snugged it down.....and it works just fine. In this case the safety switch did a good job of protecting the engine.