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Jan 19, 2018 | 05:54 AM

#81

Lazy D

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The way I roll, or should I say stop, is clutch in, right foot on the brake left foot down, right hand turns the ignition off. I always leave it in 1st gear. Just a habit so it doesn’t roll on me, I don’t leave things on and I’m probably gonna switch it over to lock anyway.

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Jan 19, 2018 | 07:57 AM

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SSpeeDEMONSS

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From: Long Beach/Avalon, SoCal

I just pop the clutch with it in first gear. Kills the engine every time.

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Jan 19, 2018 | 12:46 PM

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jdunn01

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Originally Posted by Dillbilly Bone

No right or wrong here as far as I'm concerned. Do what is right for you, and what works best. For me, the kill switch is a redundant way to shut down the ignition. By that I mean the ignition switch is primary and must always be turned off. The kill switch is a secondary route to shutdown but it doesn't eliminate the need to also use the ignition switch. I can only see occasional situations (in normal use) where the KS might be useful for me...but that's just for me. I 100% rely on the main ignition but know I can employ the KS if I'm in a situation where it would be useful. The very few times I've used the KS it seems I forget to check it at the next startup. "What?....no fire?...wait a min...oh yeah...dang it...okay, let's roll".

Yeap done that. It is pretty funny if you have a new rider that is still getting familiar with his machine and only using the ignition switch to hit his kill switch after he parks his bike. That's the anarchist in me acting up though...

Jan 19, 2018 | 03:05 PM

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dave the welder

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From: North Port Florida

I used the kill switch on the handle bar once. Now I can't get it started....

Last edited by dave the welder; Jan 19, 2018 at 03:06 PM. Reason: grammer

Jan 21, 2018 | 09:08 AM

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Second Wind

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Back in my younger days riding sport bikes hitting the kill switch on your buddies bike was a never ending joke, rolling down the road or at a stop light.

I miss those days of being young, reckless and idiot's.

Jan 21, 2018 | 01:56 PM

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StoneTrekker

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Originally Posted by Second Wind

Me too!

I have several favorite sayings and one of them is "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."

Jan 24, 2018 | 07:12 PM

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jbfb

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Originally Posted by Second Wind

and then waiting for the "BANG" when they switched it back on!
Ahhhhhh PRICELESS. I also miss being young, stupid and IMMORTAL!

Jan 25, 2018 | 06:13 AM

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Duracell

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Originally Posted by skid_pimp

Let me guess you think everyone has an ignition on the dash panel of the tank? You are aware that it can be, and often is located in other positions right?

Nope, in 37 years of riding all sorts of street bikes I've had ignitions in many locations. Currently in my garage is my oldest sons softail where it's on the left under the tank with the coil, the wife's old sporty, also low and on the left but a little further forward, her Freewheeler is on the tank, my other sons FZ-09 its on top of the triple tree near near his riser clamp. I ride and work on all of them and a number of other peoples bikes.

My original point was meant to put some perspective on the issue. The kill switch works fine, use it if you like, but the idea that it is required or as one poster has been mislead to believe that it somehow saves the ECM or ignition from voltage spike is just pure BS.

Now who parks in neutral and who leaves it in gear?