He (or the previous owner) hasn't by any chance disabled or otherwise by-passed the Pillion Switch under the pillion seat, has he?? :dontknow:
That can be done fairly readily by something as simple as putting the cap off fly-spray can or maybe a PVC plumbing fitting over the switch so that the weight of a pillion passenger on the seat doesn't trigger the switch & thereby increase the Nanny's sensitivity/bring on earlier intervention, but there are other ways to bypass that switch/sensor that might not be quite so obvious - so that'd be the first thing I'd check; make sure that the switch is active & working as intended/designed! :lecturef_smilie:
However, you (&/or he) shouldn't be too stressed by momentarily lifting a front wheel &/or even scraping the splash guard thing; the individual sensors the Nanny uses to initiate an intervention do sometimes take a bit to get upset and she won't normally get too aggressive in her intervention
unless more than one of those sensors is
SUDDENLY &/or AGGRESSIVELY triggered. And if that inside wheel was only lifted for a moment or two, not long enough to have slowed its rate of spin down too much and trigger a wheel speed sensor, then it's rotational speed will likely still have been within acceptable parameters; while the 'yaw &/or rolling moment' might not have yet made enough of a rate or angle to trigger any response to
that... So just momentarily lifting a wheel during what is otherwise a pretty constant rate turn at a steady speed is not something that's too untoward or even impossible to do without triggering a Nanny intervention, it's just not something most would usually
choose to do with a pillion passenger aboard!!
It's generally a combination of turning
fairly aggressively and accelerating fairly hard at the same time that gets you lifting a front wheel for long enough for it to change its rate of spin and to trigger a yaw/roll reaction; and once you know it can be done
without flipping or even getting near flipping, then if you practice doing it, you can learn to pretty much do it at will; and with further practice you might even be able to keep the wheel up fairly high for quite some distance once you've established the lift - usually achieved simply by maintaining a steady rate turn without touching the brakes, but some riders with a well maintained bike (so no rapid wheel speed slowing once in the air) can hold that wheel up while riding in a straight line for a couple of hundred metres with practice - even going as far as scraping an F3's splash guard the whole time!! Mind you, if you
do practice doing this deliberately, the splash guard really doesn't usually take too long to wear away/get torn off, and then you'll never have
that particular problem again!
That said, do be aware that it is a fair bit easier to do this '
Spyder Ryder's Salute' by lifting one front wheel if you're riding an RT, altho their higher CoG not only makes it easier to do it on them, but it also does tend to be a whole lot easier to take it too far and if you're lucky, bring on fairly aggressive Nanny intervention sooner... nojoke
