kill switch
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kill switch
Has anyone ever used it?
Whenever I have gone down (just a few times) it has been the last thing on my mind until the bike is on its side.
Just wondering about others.
Whenever I have gone down (just a few times) it has been the last thing on my mind until the bike is on its side.
Just wondering about others.
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Never got used to having a kill switch. (Most of my bikes do not have them)
The one on the 73 Harley is even trickier to tell. (it just cuts power to ignition not starter, motor spins but no spark)
The one on the 73 Harley is even trickier to tell. (it just cuts power to ignition not starter, motor spins but no spark)
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HEAR NO EVO
SPEAK NO EVO
and above all
RIDE NO EVO
Read my blog
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I don't see too much use for kill switch on a streetbike. It is more useful on a dirtbike. In many cases when you dump a dirtbike on its side, it remains running as the rear wheel is freewheeling. Sometimes, depending on how the bike was dumped(especially in deep mud), the ignition may not be easily accessible. It's nice to have that alternative source for turning the engine off.
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Don't know how to work without it. It's just what I was taught, before you reach for the key, you reach for the kill switch. Which was especially important when my key was on the side that fell on the ground (the Harley where the key was under my butt on one side and it fell on that side!)
I guess it's how you are taught but I personally think it saved my motor on more than one low-speed get-off...and not just the Harley but also my other machines too....
I guess it's how you are taught but I personally think it saved my motor on more than one low-speed get-off...and not just the Harley but also my other machines too....
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ive done it just like her and for some reason its always the first thing I check. I have been riding for 3 years now and have yet to drop my bike once. Wifes dropped it but I havent. But like others I shut the bike off with the kill switch every time I get off it.Veda wrote:That sounds terrifying, blues. I am not sure I would think to check the kill switch if my bike died while flying down the highway!blues2cruise wrote:I have also hit the switch inadvertantly a few times while on the highway...the bike was losing speed.....What the heck???? Oops. Kill switch.
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