Not starting in gear

[keggyhander]

At a bike night tonight a mate asked me to look at his wife's bike (ER5).

She's just passed DAS and is stalling it a bit and when this happens, it won't start in gear (with the clutch pulled in of course). It has to be put into neutral in order to start. I tested this myself by putting the bike in gear and hitting the starter. Nothing.

I fired it up, put it in gear, and kicked the stand down. Cut out as expected.

I put the stand back up, disconnected the clutch switch and put a jumper wire between the terminals. No joy. He'd brought the Haynes manual with him and I'm guessing that it's to do with the start switch relay and Interlock relay.

He's bringing it round tomorrow evening and I'll have a proper go with my test equipment but if anybody can shed any light I'd appreciate it.

Ta.

[andym]

I thought there was more than 1 safety cut off on bikes anyway.

As far as I've ever known the bike can only be started in neutral, so never really thought about wanting to start it in gear.

I do believe my GPz will start in gear with the clutch pulled, which to me seems very strange and I thought that was an issue which needed to be sorted

[keggyhander]

[Marmalade]

It'll be the clutch switch on the lever. Like a front brake light switch but does the clutch gear safety shizzle.

OK, i'll read it properly and try again. i'm an idiot


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All i can think of is a break in the wire/s of the clutch switch.
Might be the bast place to start with the tester.
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[mab]

Sounds like the side stand switch has gone. Try bridging the connection at the side stand switch and see if it will start.

Usually on most bikes, to start in gear the side stand has to be up and the clutch pulled in.

[Marmalade]

But if it was the side stand switch it would stall as soon as it was put into gear
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