How do you turn it off?

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Mar 31, 2009 | 09:29 PM

Dynamite17

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From: Eastern MA

How do you turn it off?

Do you use the handlebar switch then take the key out, or just turn the key to off?

Just take the key off and the engine is primed automatically when you turn the key ON the next time. Then just hit the START switch.

Any reason to do it one way and not the other?

B

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:35 PM

old skool1983

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From: New Port Richey FL

i just shut the key off, no reason.

i think i heard one time for people with bikes that have efi and brains in there bikes shuting the bike off at the bars acutally reloads the comupter (a good thing) every time....but like i said, "i think i heard one time"

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:39 PM

obonaven

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I believe my MOM says hit the kill switch. I have a 2006 fuel injected Dyna

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:40 PM

crsowa

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From: Muskegon, MI

I turn it off on the handle bar switch and then take the key off. Plus it's easier to reach than the key..

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:41 PM

paul s

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From: la

The book says you "should" use the on/off switch.

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:41 PM

donr101395

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From: NWFL

I just let it run out until it's of gas.

Just kidding, I use the switch.

Mar 31, 2009 | 09:44 PM

AdrianVall

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From: West Palm Beach, Florida

I use the switch on the handlebars... it just doesn't feel right when I take the key out.. not sure why, but I just do. Is there a difference in what it does?

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Mar 31, 2009 | 10:10 PM

speedjunkie

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From: Wichita, KS

I use the bar switch. That's what I was told when I picked it up. And since this is my first HD, what the hell, I'll go by the book on a thing or two for now.

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