bike died
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Road Warrior
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From: florida
bike died
Went for a nice ride yesterday after about 100 miles I stopped at a lite and the bike just died. It was like I had just turned the kill switch off. Pushed the bike into a driveway cause when I hit the start button nothing happened.WTF! Turned the ing off and back on and she fired right up. Ran fine all the way home. Hope it was just a flook but now I'm worried it will happen again 300 miles from home. This happen to anybody else?[:@]
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Tourer
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From: Queen Creek, Az
RE: bike died
in all crazyness check your battery cables and connect for tightness and what not. its prob not the problem but sounds like it could be an easy battery cable tighten. batteries cause sum of the strangest things to happen and no one knows what or why. cheap and easy start with the batt cables. 
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Hit my kill switch pulling in for fuel during a long ride with a new set of guys. We alllooked at the bike for at least ten minutes debating to check fuses, batt cables, everything we could think of when a guy walks out of the convenience store looks at the bike for 15 seconds, flips the kill switch and says "try it now". I wore the mortified face for the next 50 miles or so.
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From: New Bern, NC
RE: bike died
I Agree. Kill Switch. It's easy to do and can cause some embarassment. But do check your wiring harness to make sure it is not chaffed and touching the frame.
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I had the same sort of problem on my WG...When I first got it, I would be riding to work and it would just shut off, hit the kill switch to off and then back on and it ran. It did it several times. Took it in and they took the switch housing apart and did not find anything. It ran fine for several thousand miles. I thought that maybe they fixed it and didn't know it! Well, it came back later on. All these past times I can say I am sure I didn't hit the kill switch by accident. I have hit it once while wearing my winter gloves. This last time it did it though, I didn't turn the kill switch off then back on...I kept pressing the switch in the run position and it ran again. I think there is some corrosion that builds up in the switch in the run position. The only thing that I do that I probably shouldn't is...I rarely use the kill switch to turn off the bike, always use the ignition switch. SO, maybe by keeping the kill switch in "run" ALL the time, it gets moisture on it and is corroding some.
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I always use the kill switch to shut off the bike and leave it off until the next time I start it.When I start the bike I flip the kill swtch on then turnthe ignition switch then hit the start. I figure if I use it like that I'll know that it will work when I need it.
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Road Warrior
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From: florida
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Thanks guy's, now I don't feel like an idiot if I did hit the kill switch Doh!
Hoping thats all it was but shouldn't the bike fire right up without having to switch the ing switch off and back on?
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Hoping thats all it was but shouldn't the bike fire right up without having to switch the ing switch off and back on?[hr]