First killswitch 'breakdown'

[ADSrox0r]

Sat at a junction on the way to work in neutral hands off, tapping the tank. Lights change, go to pull off and 'ppfflluh'.....dead. Hmm. Flipped and retried, nothing. Arse.

Plonked the hazards on and wheeled her off down a quiet country lane to start diagnosing the problem. Seat off, main fuses fine. Fuse panels left and right (fucking ABS) off, all fine.

Battery diagnostic light is flashing away like a goodun telling me my battery is flat which has me baffled, I have lights and the dash is on but my clock has reset. Wtf?

I'm too far out of town to lug the Tiger tank to a garage so I'm just about to reach for the phone to call breakdown when a thought occurs. Hang on, the fuel pump isn't priming and there's nothing from the ignition whatsoever. What could kill all that at once? Hmm...

Wait....is that? The......oh you......<flick>.....<roar!>


TL;DR - I'm a bell end, flicked the killswitch at the junction by accident.

Fess up; have you done it?
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[Dave70]

Done this at a roundabout once.

Had a brain fart of my own this morning. Just finished a night shift, got all my gear on ready for the ride home, put key in the ignition, hit the starter switch......nothing, dead as a dodo. Thinks to myself ahh, kill switch must be on...nope. Oh, I know, it must be in gear and won't start because the side stand' s down. Nope, not that either (been caught out by both of these scenarios before).

After much puzzlement, resigning myself to the fact that the bike is dead and wondering what to do, it dawns on me. Instead of just putting the key in the ignition, try actually turning it too.

In my defence, it had been the last of four long night shifts and I have man flu at the moment.
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[yen_powell]

I somehow did it at about 70mph on a CX500 whilst using handlebar muffs once. I managed to get across 5 lanes of traffic to the hard shoulder wondering what the hell had caused my engine to die.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

Never moving off. My mate had started his DAS and learned about these killswitches. He flicked it off so when I went to leave the next day, just nurnurnurnurr not firing.

I'm thinking, sidestand, shit that's up. Erm Choke? nurnurnurnur nope.

He walks round, smug as a cunt and flicks my switch, it started with a huge explosion bang and I was on my way.

The other day my sidestand switch decided to play up on my, I had to get it on the centre and press it in and out a few times for it to work ....
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[panrider_uk]

Have done it once while parked up.

I noticed it just as I was about to call the AA.
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[mudcow007]

got to work, turned bike off, pulled key out - lights stayed on...hmmm

so im thinking "must be a bad connection" as they were still on after i fiddled with the switches etc - all fine

decided best thing to do was to snip the wires to the back lights an fix them during my lunch break, (as didnt have a screwy to disconnect the battery) snipped wires an posted on here

after about 6seconds of my post, someone mentioned i must have left the lights in the "park" position

[jjdugen]

Triumph RS Sprint. Did a service and some other work, took it down to a mates for a test ride. He's on a slight hill, so knocked it into first and left it on the sidestand. Had brew, came out, push starter, nothing Oh, of course, pull clutch in on these. Clutch in, press button, nada. Finally I twigged. These things will not start in gear. Not much help,the battery was flat as a fluke, mate grinning as he fetched the jump leads. Its a story he takes great pleasure in telling to all and sundry.
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[Northern Monkey]

Luckily my kill switch break down occured at my garage. The Enfield doesn't spin the starter motor with the kill switch on, so I figured the battery was flat.

I then tried to kick start it for so long that I ended up taking my helmet, jacket, gloves and jumper off because I was so hot.

After 10 minutes, I realised, and it started on the button
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[Suntan Sid]

Accidentally, half way up a mountain in Cyprus, just coming out of a hairpin bend, not sure how I managed to hit the switch.
Ground to a halt thinking WTF, thought there'd been some major electrical fart, was about to get off and push it to the side of the road when I had a brainwave and carried on.

Don't beleive anyone, with more than a few years experience, who says they've never done it!
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[Dave500]

Only once in my garage, it took 5 minutes of head scratching then admitted defeat got my dad out and boom the fucking switch!
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[The999Kid]

If I park my bike in town or on the street I habitually flick the killswitch as part of my "shutdown" routine. And check it as part of my "start up" routine before I ride off anyway...

Doesn't mean I haven't been caught out by it before...
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[WD Forte]

Easily and often done
On one of my old bikes, I eventually got round to connecting the killswitch up in an idle moment 'just in case i need it'

Sure enough, a day or so later I came out of a bike shop
and the fecker would spin but not start.
As usual, there always seems to be an audience at hand when you balls things up.
A few embarrasing minutes spent cranking, fiddling, checking for fuel etc
before I realised I'd knocked the killswitch to stop.

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[JP7]

I did it once while I was learning for my DAS. I'd been told to go for the kill switch if I dropped the bike, so after messing up a U-turn and tipping myself into a hedge, I flicked it and instantly forgot about it. My instructor and riding mate helped me get out of the hedge, then got back on their bikes and rode away, leaving me wondering why my bike wouldn't start.

Also, in a previous life I worked in the motor trade. I took a Vauxhall VX220 to be cleaned, and self-importantly reminded the cleaners that to start it they would have to turn the ignition on then press the starter button. Then, in possibly one of my dimmest ever moments, I went to fetch the car, got in it, and wondered why it wouldn't turn over when I turned the key. The cleaners came over with a little smile and pointed at the starter button.

[Wonko The Sane]

Just after I got my 125 we were out somewhere and swapped bikes to have a whizz round the shopping centre car park. I always turned my bike off by the key, she always stopped it on the kill switch.

Took me a while to work out why mine wouldn't start!
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[Clutchy]

You all hate on SV's but at least they tell you if you have the kill switch on
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[bamt]

I've never been caught out. Oh no. Absolutely never.

(at least not with any witnesses)


I'm sure I saw that one of the newly announced BMWs combined the kill switch with the starter, which seems like a good idea to prevent this kind of problem. Flick the switch backwards to kill, flick it back down for normal run mode, press further down to start. Never forget the kill switch again

[waffles]

At Locksbottom years ago on the May Day run, I went on my 125 and parked up to watch all the bikes go off. When I went back to mine it wouldn't start at all and I got into a proper strop. I was fishing around in my pockets for my RAC card when my friend casually flipped the kill switch back again.

The fucker
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[mattyfattyboo...]

I'm always flicking my mates or brothers after they've parked, then sit there laughing at them when they cant work out whats up on return.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

CB250RS, visited my sister and brother-in-law for the evening. They live at the bottom of a hill, and when I went to leave, the bike just wouldn't kick over. Pushed it up the hill countless times, thing stayed dead.

Some people just need an hour and to get completely fucked before they learn a lesson.
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[Supermoto_Fan]

Genuine question - what's the need for them? Can't be that critical as not all bikes have them..

On a jet ski I'd understand but a bike?
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