Switching her off

[Ogmios]

....i pull the HT leads off with me teeth.
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o.k - so i AM lying / got no teef.
(i do however have a very muscular tongue )

 

[Gecko]

After more than 100,000km and 8 years of riding my 1100GS I have almost always used the kill switch ...... I've never read a thread on this site about a kill switch failing ....yet....but have read about plenty of problems with ignition switches shorting out and problems with the wiring connections to the switch....the kill switch is designed to kill the engine....that's waht it's designed for and that's what I use it for

 

[bladerunner]

at least one other uses the kill switch!

I think that's what I've used for 6 bikes and maybe 150,000 miles and not yet had a problem.

But Andy did say that a shorting kill switch would make the metal high voltage live. What do I know, I just ride the thing!

 

[mark71]

Key nearly always unless I fall off but I cant beleive that there is a thread to such a pointless point, and if the ecu goes from using the kill swith guess where the bike is going straight back to with out any questions any way thats my 10 peneth.

mark

 

[VAL. H.]

OK, new thread:

When the day is done and you want to switch her off, how do you do it?

Do you turn the key or the kill switch?


That nice Andy Smith (Police trainer) warned me against using the kill (safety) switch as one day it may fail and I'll get a high voltage shock.

Ahh Bless the man in blue

 

[Packer]

Stalling is the main way I stop my engine . Usually at lights or junctions, but from time to time I like to choose a particularly greasy off camber bit of road, so that I can exercise my leg muscles trying to hold the feckin big lump up on it's wheels

Which do you use on the Zundapp Combinette?

Does this exercise your leg muscles sufficiently on an EM Sunday morning

 

[Phil Clarke]

Hold both brakes on and dump the clutch in first gear

 

[mikepg]

Always used the 'cheap plasticky red switch' ! - been doing it for longer than I care admit, and it has never failed. On the contrary, the cheap metal barell lock is the thing that has failed on me (once).

 

[Shep]

Kill switch most of the time nowadays and the first gear/side stand approach the rest of the times that I havn't stalled it

Never the key

I've never even given it a thought until now

Shep

 

[rocks]

key

Key for me - after all thats what its there for aint it?

 

[Deeley]

Kill switch most of the time nowadays and the first gear/side stand approach the rest of the times that I havn't stalled it

Never the key

I've never even given it a thought until now

Shep

Same here, but may change due to the other day.

Forget to turn the key once I'd hit the kill switch, next morning, flat battery

Nothing to charge or jump the battery, so I had to call BMW recovery

No Mr BMW man, I did not leave the ignition on, it must be a fault with the bike, but I'll keep my eye on it....

 

[ovenpaa]

Always leave the bikes parked in gear so stop in first and drop the side stand - works for me

Then up on the mainstand - still in first and with sidestand down.

 

[~Stef~]

Dont you just love these waste of bandwidth threads

In over 20 years of biking ive never had or heard of a kill switch failure even on those lowly Japanese bikes, How ever I have had ignition switch failures

 

[alimey4u2]

In 40 years of motorcycling, sometimes kill switch, sometimes ignition switch, sometimes side stand.... Call me a rebel....

Had a neutral switch go once, can't remember what bike though.....

 

[Shep]

Same here, but may change due to the other day.

Forget to turn the key once I'd hit the kill switch, next morning, flat battery

Nothing to charge or jump the battery, so I had to call BMW recovery

No Mr BMW man, I did not leave the ignition on, it must be a fault with the bike, but I'll keep my eye on it....

You must live in a nice area if you can leave your keys in the bike overnight

Don't tell your insurance, they don't like that sort of thing

Shep

 

[Welshman]

You must live in a nice area if you can leave your keys in the bike overnight

Don't tell your insurance, they don't like that sort of thing

Shep

I leave the keys in the Merc and in the bike, I have 3m walls with electric fences and 2 Bull Mastiff,s you want the vehicles that bad, take them, just leave us alone.

Welsh

 

[Comfy Old Boots]

Why not just switch her off with the key. You have to do remove the key anyway ( for the most of us anyway!). I do sometimes use the side stand and first for a quick stop

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Key? Kill switch?

On my first bike, a 250 Norton Jubilee, you just turned the ignition knob on the headlight, on or off. At least I think it was like this, it was 1973, my memory is not what i used to be.

What was it then?

leave the keys in the Merc and in the bike, I have 3m walls with electric fences and 2 Bull Mastiff,s you want the vehicles that bad, take them, just leave us alone.

Pleasant residential area then?

 

[Jonny_L]

Oooo, a thread that's got good intentions, but has gone on far too long Oh well, best make it longer...

Using the key is definitely the best option IMO. It means you shouldn't forget to take it out, and you shouldn't drain the battery with it. Plus you avoid the situation of calling the AA, to find you'd forgotten to flick it back on (hasn't happened to me though!). I used to use it on jap bikes where the kill switch is nicer to use compared to the BMW killswitch, which feels so tacky I'm scared I'll break it anyway. Possibly use the sidestand or switch when I need to keep on the front brake in gear.

Come on though, can you imagine the law suits if you ever got a shock from the kill switch. He's pulling your leg surely

 

[Deleted account 210214001]

Oh, hell, I'll join the fun and waste some bandwidth...

I'm one for the key almost all of the time save when I drop "die miniKuh" or I'm in some dodgy parking position and feel like I need both hands.

Bohdan