What exactly are you doing when the bike stalls?

Disconnect and clean the contacts on the two wire plug that goes to the clutch lever on the left handlebar...
The contacts are dirty... ...

It's either that,.. or it's the contacts on the kickstand cut-out... For them,.. you'll have to trace the wire from the kickstand up to the connector under the seat... (it might be green, I can't remember)...
If you can't figure the right one,.. just unplug and replug everything you can find under there... ...

Spray the contacts with w40, or rub then with a pencil eraser... actually, just disconnecting and reconnecting will usually do it, but cleaning will make it less likely to happen again..

Underside of the lever,... black plastic connector, with a yellow wire and a yellow w/green stripe...

You're looking at the clutch cable...   ...

I will now sit the rest of the evening in the corner proudly wearing my dunce cap because YES...I had the kickstand down when I was attempting to put it in gear thus the quick kill of the engine...not still sure why it sputtered and stalled out initially but will give it another go tomorrow once I have completed my 'time out' punishment....Thanks gentlemen and or depending gentleWOmen (politically correct effort) for the advice

billyattitude You are so dumb you are nearly half as bad as me. I bought my Savage March of 2009 and have about 7500 miles on it. Today I was zipping along playing with the throttle and noticed the most wonderful acceleration. I bought some different gas yesterday than usual and immediatley decided to get more. As I merged onto the Hwy I opened it up and realized...I was in fourth gear, not fifth, during the previous fun. Half way dropped it last week. Only thing that saved me was my ankle against the curb and a gas pump to hit my head on. Otherwise I could have scratched the bike. You ain't done nothing we ain't done. IfIrc The going dead with kickstand down was in my third week of riding.

billyattitude wrote on 07/13/11 at 17:57:24:



Out in front of a bike shop in Valdosta, GA, one day a few decades ago, a USAF kid (in uniform, an E-3) stopped by on his new Kawasaki UJM something or other, came in and started bragging to the guys hanging out there that his bike could stomp on any of theirs.  

Being in the USAF (but in civvies at that moment), I was a teense annoyed that he was being so obnoxious but I just hung back to see what developed.  I think he actually wanted one of more of the folks there to come out and ride around with him so, as he put it, "I can stomp your ass anytime."  

There were no takers.  

Eventually he walked out, got on his bike, put his helmet on without buckling it, started it up, let out the clutch, lurched out into the street,..and promptly/forcefully fell over.  His helmet rolled across the street causing an oncoming car driven by an old lady to sideswipe another car to avoid the helmet.  

Seems he sorta forgot to unlock the fork lock.

Was going down a hill a few weeks ago and my bike shut off for no apparent reason and wouldnt restart. Come to find out, out of the blue the ignition switch was turned off. I must have flipped it off unknowingly because there's no way vibrations would do that.