How are these suppose to work? I thought they killed the ignition if the bike leaned over to far. Do they reset when the bike is up right?

 

I believe that you have to cycle the ignition on/off on/off to reset the sensor.

 

yes, they kill the ignition when the bike falls over, how they operate and reset varies - what year /model bike are you asking about?

in most cases the lights etc. should still operate.
ignition circuit/fuel pump stop.

mike

 

droped my '06 a couple days ago, I manually shut it down with the kill switch, but it wouldnt restart until I cycled the ignition switch.

 

Learn something new everyday... I didn't even know they had such an animal.

 

I hada bad one , The bike would shut off going down the road. Thats how I learned about them.

 

It's a 1996 RK. The bike went over and stopped on the engine guard but motor kept running. Had to shut it down manually. After bike was upright it started right up without cycling anything. Got me thinking about what these Bank Angle Sensors are for and how do they opetate. Sure didn't do what it's suppose to do. Anyone know why? I haven't any clue.

 

They only trigger at a certain lean angle. My sportster's is 55 degrees. I don't know the bagger specs, but it's likely similar. By stopping on the engine guard, it probably never reached the angle it is set to trigger at.

 

Or since the OPs bike is nearly 16 or 17 years old, did they even have a bank angle sensor back then? What year did they start using them?

 

I think the sensor came in for 1999 ( twincam) the first couple of years there were problems with the mounting brackets cracking, resulting in the bike shutting down suddenly on a bump or curve...or even going straight and level.

mike