Side stand issue

[Disaster Area]

Hi,

The side stand switch on my 1100 has started playing up and from a quick look in the car park at work, it looks like the switch has come loose. If I move the stand and listen I can still hear the micro switch clicking.

My questions are: is this a common thing and if so, is there a recognised solution and, failing that, what would be the consequences of taping the micro switch so it thinks that the stand is permanently up?
Either that or aralditing the switch back into place.

I've looked on the web and a replacement seems incredibly expensive!

Cheers,
DA

 

[ajd]

The risk is that one day you try to ride off with the side stand down and fall off...you can decide if the probability of that is high or not!

 

[Disaster Area]

The risk is that one day you try to ride off with the side stand down and fall off...you can decide if the probability of that is high or not!

If I don't fix it, I'm not going to be riding anywhere!

 

[ajd]

I think that's your risk assessment done then!

 

[Disaster Area]

Well after taking the side stand off and giving it a good clean I put it all back together. The fault was still there. I moved the bike to its parking spot and decided, on a whim, to trace the wire from the side stand back to the fuse box. I was wiggling wires and the fuel pump kept priming and then cutting out and priming again at random intervals.

This made me think that the fault had to be a loose wire, but the clock was resetting and I couldn't think how a loose wire on the side stand would affect the clock. So I started wiggling all of the wires trying to find a loose connection. I found that the battery terminal on the left hand side of the battery had come ever so slightly slack and had rotated so that when the bike flexed as it was coming off the centre stand, or I sat down on it, the battery terminal could just short onto the fuel tank. Fifteen seconds with an Allen key and it looks like problem sorted! Until the next problem...