Ok, here is what happened, I was about to take off from a stop and due to other ambient noise I didn't give enough throttle and stalled on take off.

I immediately pulled in the clutch, pushed the start button and nothing happened. so I fished for neutral and it started fine.

Now just as an experiment later on that day I tried to start it in gear and it worked fine, also will attempt to start wile in gear without pulling in clutch but if I purposely stall it I cant restart unless its in neutral. WTF is that about? is there anyway to program that out?

I do have a FP3 on the bike and I think when it was stock it would start after a stall, but its been a wile and I don't make it a habit of stalling the bike.

Anyway it's a 2014 FLD and has a tune loaded for hi flow AC and standard baffle exhaust.

Before people start to bash me about wanting this feature fixed just know that I work in Newark NJ at night and if someone tries to jack me wile riding I would like the ability to Restart immediately if by chance I stall during the commotion.

 

Probably has to do with ECM control and will need the ignition recycled (reboot ECM) to restart in gear after a stall?
Maybe try flipping the kill switch off and on when it stalls to restart?
Just my guesses,
Bob

 

Tried flipping the run switch and switching ignition off and on again. I did notice that if you stay stalled and in gear after about 20 seconds you can restart it. Tomorrow I'll try loading the stock tune and see if it still does the same thing, but I did search through the tune app and didn't see any switches for this problem.

 

found the problem and it's totally my fault, I rotated the controls a smidge and the texture on the grip was enough to keep the clutch switch from engaging. I didn't even know it had a clutch switch, my sportster could start no matter what and even with the factory security you could still push start it.

Anyway, Thank you all for your input, it kept my mind turning.

 

Well done, self diagnosis is a great way to solve problems!

 

There's a clutch switch? I thought those only existed on metrics. . . same for the kickstand switch.

 

I know! Right?

 

All these fascinating things are in your FSM!

 

They may be in the FSM but, they are unusual for Harley's unless these are some of the CANBUS changes.