Several times when I've come out of the dealership after having the bike serviced, the battery has been dead (I thought). I'm sitting there scratching my head, "what the hell". Then I remember to look at the kill switch (which is off). I never use the kill switch.

 

Now that I shot myself and quit using the kill switch All is Good...

 

I will stop using my kill switch too. When I bought my bike the dealer said I had to turn the kill switch off, then turn the ignition off. They said do the reverse when starting, turn ignition on, then kill switch, then start. I hate doing it this way I would just rather turn the ignition on and off and not bother with the kill switch.

 

I did that the last time I had mine in the shop. At first I thought the battery was dead in my key fob. I felt pretty stupid when the shop manager came out and hit the kill switch back on. I turn it off at the tank always.

 

my old lady did the same on her bike drained the battery couldn't trickle charge it, so i hooked up my big charger an an boosted it at 10 amps for one hour .then all was fine. a trickle charger wont recognize a dead bat. good luck and #1 the ignition switch... just like you were in your truck !!

 

I didn't lock the ignition today and when I came back to my bike someone had decided to play and switched it over to the accessory setting, which drained the battery (suprising, I would have thought it should have lasted a lot longer than it obviously did).

I managed to get a friend to jumper it for me so I could get it started, but I was wondering if that's ok or should I be doing something else?

The battery is still dead tonight so I'm going to put it on a battery charger tomorrow morning and then take it out for a nice long ride just to make sure

 

Just lock the ignition when you get off it. That's what I do.