One of my first ever memories of motorcycles is when my brothers best friend died from hitting a car after he forgot to put his stand up,

Don't remove the side stand switch it is there to save your life

Ian

Hi Ian, I appreciate your thoughts. I can only speak from personal experience, but ...

Throw it away!
I removed my sidestand switch yesterday - one of the first things I do with new (to me) bikes. This is one of the main reasons a bike will leave you stranded on the side of the road when the sidestand switch fails. If you wire together the two wires to the sidestand switch, you won't ...