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kill switch
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:07 pm
by Hondagirl
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:41 pm
by slimcolo
The other day my bike just died and took ma while to figure out problem. Seems that I hit kill switch with glove thumb-----does this count?
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:02 pm
by Hondagirl
Lol yes that sort of counts.
I find its in a tricky place to reach in an emergency. By accident fits!
I have had people do it as a trick when Ive parked and its taken me a while
to work out why the engine wont start.
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:27 am
by slimcolo
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)
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:14 am
by HYPERR
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:04 pm
by coffee_brake
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....
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:35 am
by Veda
Do you mean in an emergency or overall? I use my "kill switch" to shut the bike off every night.
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:59 am
by blues2cruise
I have never used it for an emergency purpose. I use the engine cut off switch like coffee brake does and like Veda does.
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:07 am
by Veda
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.
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!
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:50 am
by ofblong
Veda wrote: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.
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!
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.