View Poll Results: neutral or in gear

NEUTRAL

124

48.44%

IN GEAR

132

51.56%

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How do you park your bike ?????

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Jul 20, 2009 | 06:15 AM

#11

akroguy

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From: NM, land of entrapment

In gear! I dropped my bike when it was idling in neutral, parked on a visually impossible to detect slight downward slope. It wobbled forward just enough and over it went. Never again.

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:18 AM

#12

Raaze07

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From: Broadview Heights, OH

Neutral - unless parked on a pretty steep hill. To further clarify, NEVER on a downhill slope!

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:28 AM

#13

turxile

Intermediate

Joined: Jul 2009

Posts: 28

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Quote:

Originally Posted by garyloos

+1 neutral unless on a hill.

+4.
Actually I rarely have to park on a hill, so almost always neutral for me.

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:30 AM

#14

Road Ranger

Road Warrior

Joined: Apr 2009

Posts: 1,757

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From: Northern Illinois

In "N" with the jiffy stand down...Are you serious?

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:38 AM

#15

shortride

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From: 46th State, USA

Always in gear when parking. I would love it if Harley would put a kill switch on the Jiffy Stand.

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:43 AM

#16

LA Cox

Cruiser

Joined: Jan 2009

Posts: 208

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From: Katy, Texas

The only place I park my bike where I leave it in neutral is in the garage. The rest of the time it's in gear when it's stopped.

Late,
***

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:44 AM

#17

Notgrownup

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Joined: Mar 2009

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From: Snow Hill, NC

Neutral.

Jul 20, 2009 | 06:46 AM

#18

bellgnte

Road Master

Joined: Jun 2009

Posts: 866

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From: Pocahontas, IL

Very carefully

At times, I have wished there was an "emergency brake". Maybe not the bike start unless it is disengaged. Guess I could wrap a bright orange bungee around the front brake.

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Jul 20, 2009 | 07:17 AM

#19

capt_caveman

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In gear ALWAYS and always have clutch pulled in when starting regardless. I'm kind of surprised at how may riders are leaving their bikes in Neutral. Maybe it's the way I was taught to drive a manual trans 'back in the day'. You never relied on your parking brake alone and always left the vehicle in-gear. JMHO.