Theoretically,  yes, it should start. Do yourself a favor, cut the wires and twist the bike side of the harness together. The switches are flimsy, failure prone, miserable little bits of excess weight. Once the wiring is spliced, dismount and discard the switch.

Good Gawd! Look at whereweare.

Grown man takes advice to REmove a Safety Interlock & THEN wants to spank whoever said he should? Give me strength, Lord..

My '83 Suzuki Tempter had a clutch safety interlock - the starter would not work unless the clutch was pulled in. I do not remember any other safeties on it, unless you count the Neutral light. When Suzuki first introduced the Savage it had a clutch safety (I think) and a "Sidestand" light in the speedometer cluster (the blank space for which is still there). By the next year it had a sidestand interlock, though I do not know what other interlocks might have been there. My old Honda Helix scooter (about '85) had no sidestand interlock, but it had an interlock on the starter that required the rear brake to be applied. With no neutral on its automatic transmission that made sense. Current automatic scooters usually require either brake be applied and the sidestand to be up to start.

While we may decry such safeties, and bewail the "nanny state" for forcing them upon us, we also have to remember that such safeties usually result from people getting hurt. If we, as operators, always followed the correct procedures such safeties would be unneeded. Too, if we as operators follow correct procedures the operation of the safeties is "transparent" in the sense that they will never bother us. The biggest gripe seems to be that the safeties may fail (not all that common despite forum complaints) and leave us stranded.

Okay. I have had my say. You are free to believe whatever you like.

Maybe I'm dating myself, but when Kawasaki introduced the rocket sled 750 3-cylinder two-stroke (+/- 1970?), it developed a really bad reputation for the side stand deploying under HARD acceleration due to the incedible amount of vibration. As long as the rider caught it before turning left, all was OK. A good friend who rode (and loved) one, rigged a bungy cord fron stand to frame (I think) to prevent this.

On the Double RYCA build, we jumped the sidestand switch and clutch switch wiring, then removed the switches.  I wanted it to be like the first several bikes I owned,...Lambretta 150, Cushman, Ducati 250, Norton Atlas, Yamaha ym-1, Suz t-500, etc.

see reply #156 here:  http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1304722902/156

The first attempt at sidestand-crash-prevention, was a rubber "toe" that stuck down lower than the sidestand when the sidestand was down.  It would flex upward a little when the sidestand was down and the bike was on the sidestand. If you were riding around with the sidestand down, the rubber foot would hit the pavement before the actual bottom of the sidestand, thereby moving the sidestand to the rear before the metal of the stand touched the ground and caused a problem.

Dave wrote on 09/13/13 at 05:14:55:



Ditto.  


1960, for me.