The only reason any of you are using the kill switch is because Ralph Nader demanded it. If he hadn't then the switch wouldn't even be there.

 

Ralph Nader ???



Well keep not using the safest switch and someone might be

 

EH! Non kill switch users probably have car tires on their bikes! lmao on this topic.

 

I have always used the kill switch on all my bikes to shut them down. 30 years and no issues.... I think trying to change now would be too hard (I'm a creature of habit)...

 

Eh! Some of us were actually riding BEFORE bikes had kill switches.

 

I never use the kill switch.

Funny story. I bought a new bike last summer. The tech rode it around to the front of the dealership where my sales guy and I were waiting. My sales guy asked if I had any questions and I said, no I am good to go. I got on the bike turned on the ignition and tried to start the bike - no go. It took me a couple of tries to realize that the kill switch was off. Oh well!

 

Yup we were or had bare bones strippers or the old switches sucked/failed/broke and we disabled them.

It seems though that common sense is a uncommon virtue regarding shutting off the bike. Good thing sticking throttles are almost a thing of the past as well.

I am thinking that most have such little real experience with old clapped out machines that they never had the sharting pleasure of a stuck throttle on something other than a flat straight road on a bike without a handy switch half a thumb length away and needing both hands on the bar to control it and not wanting a grenade between their legs by pulling in the clutch!!!!! Fun times indeed. How I survived the junkers of my youth is beyond me.

 

A buddy with a 2014 wet head tells me (don't shoot the messenger) that with the Twin cooled you HAVE to shut it down with the run/stop switch so there is power to the pump to keep water circulating until it cools down otherwise it will puke all its coolant.

 

In my crotch rocket days we would do that all the time, except we did it while going down the freeway at speed.

 

My turn off procedure...

Ride the bike to where I am going, at about 30 feet, hit the kill switch and coast to a stop.
Leave they ignition on and radio playing, take your helmet off and then dismount. Never get off your bike while your helmet is still on (just like they do in SOA).

Take off your gloves and bandana and put them away in your saddlebag along with your riding glasses. Rummage around in your saddlebag for your normal sunglasses. Lock everything up and then and only then.... Turn the radio down and turn off the ignition and lock it.

Startup process is just the reverse of this.