Switching her off

[King Rat]

Just how do you use the side stand to stop the bike?

Doesn't it wear it away rather? Or do you keep it in your jacket so you can stick it in the front spokes?

I know I am a numpty, but I cannot fathom how you use the side stand to stop the bike. Just turn the fing off. Nothing clever about it. The kill switch just earths the ignition surely.

 

[Colt]

just stall the bike in gear or run it in deep water.saves using the key or the killswitch.

 

[Dainese Brave]

Since I park on a slope I leave it in gear and put down the side stand. Only disadvantage is walking away and leaving the ignition switched on with headlight draining the battery. As if any idiot would do that because it makes your battery go flat in about 20 minutes. Actually it was about 22 minutes.

.....I once came back from a 6,000 mile tour of Romania and Eastern Europe without hitch. Then I popped in to see my brother on the way home from the ferry...left...then was whilst sitting at a particularly long temporary road works traffic lights 10 minutes from his house, switched my ignition off, and waited…only to try and start it when they went green to find a completely dead battery!....I’d left my bloody lights on!!

(this was when bikes had light switches! And having them on or off was an option! )

I had to strip the bike down to get to the battery, as car drivers passed by laughing at the biker who had just filtered past them in the 3 mile queue! ...then wait for an equally amused brother to turn up with jump leads!

 

[Dainese Brave]

...going back to the thread....

I nearly always use the kill switch.....I thought it was what it was there for?

I've done that on every bike I've owned in 25 years

......except an old Suzuki GT550 I had cos that never started in the first place so I can't remember ever getting to the switching off bit!