Kill Switch
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From: Prior Lake, MN
But I also peel the warning stickers off the air cleaner, and we're getting a new bed delivered tomorrow, so don't tell anyone, but I'm yanking off that mattress tag.
I'm a badass
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Welllllllll, only half a bad ***. The tags can be removed by the consumer, its only illegal for the manufacturer and retailer to remove them. But surely you knew that lol.
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From: Arizona
As described on page 138 of the Touring Models Owners Manual 2016
Never have. I forget it's even there. Dropped the bike once running the Twisted Sisters, got it up right, checked damage (minimal), and took time to chill a little. Bike wouldn't start and I couldn't figure why. Double checking, must have hit the KILL while going down, that's the only time I know of that mine has been off (other than just testing switches after bar swaps or harness changes).
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I seem to vaguely remember a time if you turned off the motor with the kill switch before the RPM reached its happy place (1K RPM) that the ECM would use that as the default RPM. For instance, say you just started your cold bike and the RPM was ~1.4K and for some reason you immediately turned off the motor using the kill switch. The next time you start the bike, even if it is warm enough that the idle should be at its happy place, it will idle at 1.4K instead. Does this still hold true?
Last edited by GalvTexGuy; Nov 16, 2017 at 04:00 PM.