Kill Switch

I left my sporty at the dealer for a new tire. When I picked it up it
wouldn't start because they had turned it off on the handlebar switch as
well as the ignition switch. Then I remembered that some newer riders
habitually do this. I have even had one dealer rep turn mine off for me
while I was sitting on the bike with the motor already off. It'd a minor PIA
except on my Hog, where I have rewired the switch to permit cranking the
bike without starting it. Why does anybody do this? Are they afraid their
bike will start itself?

Posted by Mark Olson on October 15, 2008, 8:34 am

Vito wrote:

> I left my sporty at the dealer for a new tire. When I picked it up it

> wouldn't start because they had turned it off on the handlebar switch as

> well as the ignition switch. Then I remembered that some newer riders

> habitually do this. I have even had one dealer rep turn mine off for me

> while I was sitting on the bike with the motor already off. It'd a minor PIA

> except on my Hog, where I have rewired the switch to permit cranking the

> bike without starting it. Why does anybody do this? Are they afraid their

> bike will start itself?

The usual explanation is that it gets a person in the habit of using the
kill switch so that in an emergency they will instinctively go for the
kill switch rather than take a hand off the bars to use the key. I
haven't yet heard a good counter-argument.

Posted by The Older Gentleman on October 15, 2008, 10:04 am

> The usual explanation is that it gets a person in the habit of using the

> kill switch so that in an emergency they will instinctively go for the

> kill switch rather than take a hand off the bars to use the key. I

> haven't yet heard a good counter-argument.

I've never heard that one, but as you say, it's the only explanation
that makes any kind of sense.

They would have been especially useful on some early Hondas I owned,
which had the ignition switch mounted on the left-hand side, under the
fuel tank[1], but they didn't actually fit kill switches to those bikes:
only when they moved the ignition switches to more accessible locations.

[1] I remember BMW put them in the left-hand side of the headlight
shell, which always struck me as particularly daft.

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Posted by . on October 15, 2008, 12:52 pm

On Oct 15, 7:04=EF=BF=BDam, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

> They would have been especially useful on some early Hondas I owned,

> which had the ignition switch mounted on the left-hand side, under the

> fuel tank[1], but they didn't actually fit kill switches to those bikes:

> only when they moved the ignition switches to more accessible locations.

When you found out that motorcycles had kill switches, did you
complain that the manufacturers were making "death threats" and
stalking you?

Posted by The Older Gentleman on October 15, 2008, 1:16 pm

> On Oct 15, 7:04?am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older

> Gentleman) wrote:

> > They would have been especially useful on some early Hondas I owned,

> > which had the ignition switch mounted on the left-hand side, under the

> > fuel tank[1], but they didn't actually fit kill switches to those bikes:

> > only when they moved the ignition switches to more accessible locations.

> When you found out that motorcycles had kill switches, did you

> complain that the manufacturers were making "death threats" and

> stalking you?

No? Why, d'you think I should have?

Loser.

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GHPOTHUF#1 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom
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