Kill switch or console switch
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Starting in 08 with throttle by wire, if you kill the motor with the thumb switch and happen to be leaning on the throttle at 1200 rpm (normal idle is 1000 rpm) after about three times of leaning on the throttle the ecm would remember this speed and your bike would now idle at what ever this average speed was.
To correct back to 1000, you had to cycle the ignition switch 3 times
To correct back to 1000, you had to cycle the ignition switch 3 times
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Road Master
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From: California
Kill switch. In addition to the advice the old biker had for you...just took delivery on a new road king and the dealer brought this up...said always do kill switch first because over time if you use the console first; they have found that the console **** can go bad, develops a short or something...just fails over time.
Road Captain
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From: Americus, GA
Starting in 08 with throttle by wire, if you kill the motor with the thumb switch and happen to be leaning on the throttle at 1200 rpm (normal idle is 1000 rpm) after about three times of leaning on the throttle the ecm would remember this speed and your bike would now idle at what ever this average speed was.
To correct back to 1000, you had to cycle the ignition switch 3 times
To correct back to 1000, you had to cycle the ignition switch 3 times
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Road Master
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From: California
After reading the serious response's I agree that this is a simple legal issue Harley had to put in the owner's manual. It is easier to hit the kill switch than fumble around with your hands off the handlebars for the console switch. I cannot see any difference between the two controls other than a safety issue as was pointed out earlier.
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After reading the serious response's I agree that this is a simple legal issue Harley had to put in the owner's manual. It is easier to hit the kill switch than fumble around with your hands off the handlebars for the console switch. I cannot see any difference between the two controls other than a safety issue as was pointed out earlier.
That, and probably also to get you used to turning off the bike with the kill so that in an emergency you don't fumble for the ignition.
However, more impotortantly, when riding, always lean to the left to fart. This way, your gas is expelled to the right, away from the spark plugs reducing the risk of an explosion!
