Footpeg sensors

Was wondering how the footpeg sensors work? My service dude told me the little metal tube sticking out detects crash/lean and shuts off the engine....but I don't see any wiring from the pegs to report that. How does this actually work or is my service dude imagining things?
He pulled your chain so hard, gravity distorted! Did the "roll of flight line" or "bucket of rotor wash" prank we got victimized with as newbies in Army aviation units. :p
 
He's imagining things... There's an inertial sensor under your seat. Part of its functionality is to tell the ECU whether your bike is upright, on its side or upside down. The ECU will turn off the engine if it's not upright.

let me say it in other words.

that is the T O S - the tip over sensor ,
that stops the engine in the event of an accident by, figuratively speaking, cutting off the power when the bike falls on one side.
 
I was more than certain it was total bs he was feeding me and double checked a bunch of times if it was just the imu sensing lean and cutting out the engine...but he insisted it was a sensor and started to wonder if it was working in mysterious ways beyond the physics of our planet, because the busa is all of that in every other aspect ;)
 
You are joking?
Did your mechanic advise you to change this too? Very important. ;)

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