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So a little story..........Last summer I was at my sister's hardware store, I'd left the Monster parked there after consuming a little......O.K. a lot of alcohol
. I was parked inside of her storage half of the store, and didn't want to stink up the place while I was letting it warm up, so I tried to put the motorcycle in first gear and roll 5 feet forward with the sidestand down, and when I tried to let the clutch out, it died....."what the fu<k?", obviously didn't give it enough gas......tried again, died again......"piece of Italian sh!t" ......
tried again, lots of gas, same results........"oh, oh, I'm fu<ked". So I rolled the motorcycle outside and left it for a while and tried a little later, but this time I put up the sidestand when I tried to move it, and it took off fine......."must have fixed itself, I'll pray to God when I get home and I'm sure it won't happen again"..................... Fast forward to a couple of days ago, I am in the garage dreaming of actually taking a ride, and I fire up the Monster and try to pull forward, and the bike dies again, and I have a "moment of clarity" and realize that there is a safety feature on the Monster that won't allow me to take off with the sidestand down. I know that there used to be a safety switch on the sidestand that most people bypassed that wouldn't allow the motorcycle to run with the sidestand down, and I know that there was an auto retracting sidestand on some Monsters, but I'd never heard of the safety feature that I'd discovered (it doesn't help that I didn't get an owner's manual, and am too lazy to download one off the Ducati website {56K, would take 4 hours}) So I'm really feeling like Lewis and Clark, and I feel that I've discovered something new, so I think that I'll name it the Steubing Sidestand Safety Feature (S.S.S.F.)
. Actually it makes me wonder if Italians are really stupid, and prone to riding with the sidestand down? I've done it a time or two, but soon realized that it wasn't a good idea, and subsequently stopped. Thoughts?
tried again, lots of gas, same results........"oh, oh, I'm fu<ked". So I rolled the motorcycle outside and left it for a while and tried a little later, but this time I put up the sidestand when I tried to move it, and it took off fine......."must have fixed itself, I'll pray to God when I get home and I'm sure it won't happen again"..................... Fast forward to a couple of days ago, I am in the garage dreaming of actually taking a ride, and I fire up the Monster and try to pull forward, and the bike dies again, and I have a "moment of clarity" and realize that there is a safety feature on the Monster that won't allow me to take off with the sidestand down. I know that there used to be a safety switch on the sidestand that most people bypassed that wouldn't allow the motorcycle to run with the sidestand down, and I know that there was an auto retracting sidestand on some Monsters, but I'd never heard of the safety feature that I'd discovered (it doesn't help that I didn't get an owner's manual, and am too lazy to download one off the Ducati website {56K, would take 4 hours}) So I'm really feeling like Lewis and Clark, and I feel that I've discovered something new, so I think that I'll name it the Steubing Sidestand Safety Feature (S.S.S.F.)