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Stopping the engine
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Just leave them resting on their sides in the grass, they will quite down soon enough.
kick stand swicth and clutch switch can be by-passed at the side of the road when they fail. emergency kill switch not a chance. wiring diagram with you? , tools?, your screwed. quite using that cheesey plastice contact switch, it will stop you dead!!!! hello moto limo can you help me?
the contact isn't plastic, it's metal, and the last thing you want is corrosion due to nonuse. Know anyone that has had a switch wear out?
Have you ever actually taken apart an ignition lock? Guess whats inside at the bottom of most ignition locks? A switch in a plastic housing! The locks are mostly metal, but the switches inside at the bottom are mostly plastic
Kick stand switch, kill switch, or ignition, they are all switches doing the same thing.....But if it makes you sleep better at night then choose which one you want to try and wear out
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thats my point, they aren't going to wear out, though i have seen far more failures of the kickstand switch due to corrosion and heard of more mechanical failures of the ignition (either tumblers jamming or wearing thin) yet i've never heard of the emergency kill switch failing other than corrosion from lack of use...
So use all of them equally? I end up doing that anyways cause I'm a goof. lol
Oh I though you were saying not to use the kill switch cause of the plastic switch wearing out....I have to agree the most common of the 3 failing is the kickstand switch because of all the crap it gets from being so low and exposed.
Use whatever comes to mind first, I wouldnt worry about wearing out any particular switch.
Is it a twin? One for each cylinder? lol
Sundie
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Wow.
Okay then, a couple of things...
1 - i've seen kill switches stop working from disuse
2 - i've never seen a kill switch stop working from use
Electronically, they do the exact same thing. They stop the ignition and/or fuel pump.
Habits i have:
- heavy traffic, sitting at what i know is going to be a long light - once a car has gotten behind me, blocking someone else from running into me, kill switch. This is an air-cooled habit, that i seem to continue through my water cooled years.
- when parking, put the kick down (that's a new one, admittedly) to stop the engine, let the clutch out, set the bike, turn off with key.
It's highly doubtful that you're going to wear out your kill switch any more than you're going to wear out your keyswitch. It's going to be maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyy years of rough use.
Okay then, a couple of things...
1 - i've seen kill switches stop working from disuse
2 - i've never seen a kill switch stop working from use
Electronically, they do the exact same thing. They stop the ignition and/or fuel pump.
Habits i have:
- heavy traffic, sitting at what i know is going to be a long light - once a car has gotten behind me, blocking someone else from running into me, kill switch. This is an air-cooled habit, that i seem to continue through my water cooled years.
- when parking, put the kick down (that's a new one, admittedly) to stop the engine, let the clutch out, set the bike, turn off with key.
It's highly doubtful that you're going to wear out your kill switch any more than you're going to wear out your keyswitch. It's going to be maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyy years of rough use.
daught
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No, it's a single. Maybe because it's a big single it needs two :/
wiredbeans
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I mostly use my kill switch when I am at a red light and want to talk to my buddy next to me because my bike is too darn loud.
The reason you are told to use the kill switch at the MSF is simple muscle memory.The idea is to learn to find the switch without looking for or thinking about it so you have a built in reaction time if needed in a panic situation.They are designed to be used all the time for this reason. I must say I have however never shut down a bike while crashing it.
CSC. In Canada it is the CSC. It is the MSF in the US only. The rest of your post is correct, though.
And for those who believe that kill switches aren't designed for repeated use... in 29 years of riding on 13 bikes I have never once had a kill switch failure. Neither have any of the numerous other riding friends I've met over the years.
Yes CSC,forgot were i was.I have a tendency to cruise GTA and Volusa Riders at the same time.On my bike the ignition is on the side of the neck cover which is harder to get to while on the bike and easy to damage as a result.I also tend to leave the bike in gear so having a brain fart while shutting down can lead to dropping the bike.
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