it actually pisses me off when someone else turns my bike off using the kill switch. like when i get work done at the harley shop. i only use the ignition switch. never the run/kill switch. i think that switch is there for those who were used to riding jap bikes. seems like it's always the younger riders who use it. good for them. when i go to harley to pick my bike up when i have some work done to it, and the run/kill switch is turned to the kill side, i'll sit there and my g'damm bike won't start. what the hell is wrong now i get ta thinking. then i realize some idiot used the kill switch rather than the ign switch to turn off my bike.

 

I use the ignition switch. That way I know I won't come back to a dead battery from accidentally walking away with the headlight on.

 

KILL SWITCH? I don't need no stinking kill switch. I don't use no stinking kill switch. When I started riding Harleys there was no such thing as a stinking kill switch. Ignition switch kills it all.

 

Finally I find out the reason for my whine in 5th!!!!

 

I have never used it, but I notice the service techs at my dealer always use it.

 

I would be willing to bet its is becuase the kill switch turns off the fuel to the injector. So yon have no unburn't fuel in the cylinders when you turn off the Ing

 

Kill switch - creates muscle memory for when things go bad.

 

What he said

 

I never usr the kill switch-- never came back to a dead battery either-- I've seen that happen !!

 

That was me with the dead battery....happened one time a long time ago. I use the ignition switch every time now............ :-)