Feel free to mock :/

[MeatHelmet]

Went for a quick blast across the Pennines this after to get out on my own for a couple hours.

Stopped at a newsagents for a Mars bar and a bottle of water, came back out to the bike and it wouldn't start.

I feared this would gapped as I have been having some issues with the bike firing up.

This, however, was different. I parked at the top of a hill incase of such eventuality, so I could roll down and bump start the bike. Which I tried and absolutely nothing!

So I call the RAC, they tell me a 2 hour wait! So I ring the mrs and ask her to come out to me with some jump leads and see if that solves it.

I hook everything up and absolutely nothing.

The mrs, knowing nothing about bikes, walks over and asked about the kill switch.

Yep, some cunt had walked past the bike and flicked the switch as I was in the shop!

TL:DR kill switch was on, I wasted time callng RAC and mrs only to be schooled of my noobiness by the mrs :/
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Bike - 2003 Kawasaki ZX6R 636 Ninja (A1P)

[Fisty]

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[lllN30lll]

When you say 'Some c*nt' You mean you don't you.
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[Sable]

*Mocks* Well that was silly! Getting schooled by an RAC man would be bad enough, but by the missus! On the kill switch! Oh dear!

I once had a mate who once pushed a bike at least 5 mile home because my mates kill switch was down! Hah! My mates such a muppet! I tell ya I was knackered when I got home!...

Cheers

[jeddy11]

yep it always is gloves or hand either one ^^
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[CaNsA]

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[janner_10]

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[Islander]

[Dalemac]

[Dalemac]

[sidewinder]

Can't mock you on this one we have all done it

[Musketeer]

[Snorty]

Most people include it in their "things to check when bike won't start"

Some bikes will turn over with the kill switch engaged and some won't, can make it extra confusing!
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[sabian92]

Good lord, I reckon you should have called your carer as well

Least they didn't whack a mirror off or something like that. I like intelligent vandalism though.

[Carl_steveo]

I've done it too. When I first got my bike I wasn't going to use it for a while so it was left in the garage. A week later I get it out and it's not working. Rang a family member who has bikes and they came over to help after I was bump starting it down a hill for an hour. Turns out the kill switch and the fact I'd turned the fuel tap to off was the culprit.
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[FrankGill]

I've done it only I was coming of an early morning fery from Roscoff. Had to push the bike of, directed straight over to the passport booth where lo and behold the bike starts.

[barrkel]

One time, after coming back from a trip abroad where I had rented a car (I don't own a car), I got back on my scooter, took it to the petrol station, then couldn't get it started after filling up.

I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start up.

It was because I was twisting the key expecting it to turn over. My jetlagged brain figured it out eventually, but only after I had walked the bike away from the pump.
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[-Matt-]

Ive got to the stage of removing the tank to check the sparkplugs id replaced earlier in the day and thought id botched up before seeing id knocked my switch before happens to the best dumbest of us

[Joeval]

Yep, done the same thing. I'd also parked like a muppet, so it sort of went like - gear up, get on, realise I haven't got enough room to move the bike, wiggle it around til I can get out without encountering a railing/wall, try to start it, shite. Flap around like a bigger muppet, finally twig the killswitch, and eventually get going.

Coupled with the L plates, I look like a right fool.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

Ignition, kill switch, clutch in, neutral, immobiliser, battery switch, fuel tap, HT leads

[barrkel]

[Rogerborg]

[ws4936]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[MeatHelmet]

Definitely wasn't me that flick the switch. Ido remember flcking it what I thought was on then off, but obviously. Was doing t in reverse!

The reason I was so quick to figure it was fecked was because ve has probs starting it recently, that coupled with the charging system woes earlier in the year and I threw the towel in straight away and called the RAC!

Think I would have been more embarrassed if the RAC had flicked the switch than my mrs to be honest

We live and learn though I suppose!
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Bike - 2003 Kawasaki ZX6R 636 Ninja (A1P)