Kill Switch Question

 I notice that every once in a while when I get on my bike that the kill
switch is in the on position. I must be shutting down the bike with my key
(must be going a little brain dead after I ride). I have no idea what makes
the motorcycle work I just ride em.  Now I have thought about this and I
figure I must be doing some damage to something or another or else why would
I have a kill switch and a key switch. Actually the more I think of it the
more I am wondering why I have two switches anyway. If some kind soul could
help me here I would sure appreciate it.

Thanx
Puffer

 Puffer Bradley wrote:

  My ignition switch turns the bike on and off.    My kill switch activates
the fork mounted anti-moronic-cager-laser.  

John

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The kill switch(located on the handlebar) is more of an
emergency switch. Meant for easy accessibility in the
event of an accident, or unscheduled departure.  <g>

 
You're not hurting anything by shutting the engine off using either
switch, since they are in series on any motorcycle with a battery-
powered ignition.

The killswitch is really meant for stopping the engine in an emergency
in case you crash, but some riders do get into the habit of using the
killswitch before turning the ignition key off.

Some older motorcycles had the ignition switch mounted on the frame
near the hot cylinder head, where you would burn your fingers fumbling
blindly for the key, while other older motorcycles had the ignition
switch located underneath and behind the rider.

I first started seeing handlebar-mounted kill switches on dirt bikes
in the late 1960's.

Dirt bikes would have a magneto ignition and didn't need a battery, so
the kill switch usually just grounded out the magneto.

The British and the Japanese seem to have standardized the ignition
switch on the handlebars and a kill swith in series with the ignition
switch about the same time.

 


Once again, in your attempt to show how smart you are, you have instead
shown just the opposite.

The ignition switch kills ALL the power.  The kill switch kills only the
engine.........on any bike I've ever ridden.  As such, they can't be "in
series", since they do two different things.

P.S.  As long as you keep posting with that non-standard encoding, you might
as well quit morphing 'cause your "handwriting" gives you away every time.