Have you ever used your kill switch?

[crofty1984]

I can appreciate that it's mandated with good intentions, but have you ever been halfway through an accident and thought "oops - I'd best knock the engine off!"?

[creampuff]

Biks can topple over, still be running and hard to get at the key. Kill switch works.

[MC Bodge]

No, and I doubt I'd think of using it in a crisis as it is so rarely thought about.

[LimaDelta]

I thought it was more for the emergency services/passers-by to stop the bike, particularly as some have ignition keys which are not immediately obvious. Big red switch says 'STOP' without much ambiguity.

[boyse7en]

I thought it was so you could stuff your mates while waiting at traffic lights. Wait for the lights to go green, hit his kill switch as you make off into the sunset laughing like a drain as he tries to get it restarted with a line of impatient traffic behind him. Bonus points if he's got a bike that has to be in neutral to start

[RemaL]

no but fleegle has used mine the

[Dr Jekyll]

I thought it was so that if the throttle jammed you could stop the engine without taking a hand off the handlebar.

[RemyMartin]

boyse7en said:

I thought it was so you could stuff your mates while waiting at traffic lights. Wait for the lights to go green, hit his kill switch as you make off into the sunset laughing like a drain as he tries to get it restarted with a line of impatient traffic behind him. Bonus points if he's got a bike that has to be in neutral to start

This. Lol.

[srob]

Real men use decompressors

[vonuber]

There's a mercury tilt switch in mine which means if it is ever on its side the engine automatically cuts out.

[sjtscott]

One time used in anger when the whole gear linkage detached itself front the lever pivot point while at speed on a motorway on my Aprilia Falco - ultimately it did it a couple of time as either from the factory or lack of correct dealer PDI there was zero thread lock on the end of the linkage. Needed to bring the bike to a stop from warp speed and hold the clutch in stuck in 6th, since I couldn't get it out of gear right thumb hit the kill switch so I could release the clutch, get off the bike and rescue the linkage dangling off the gearbox.

[Speed addicted]

Yes. For doing mahoosive backfires to scare mates and passers by.

Since getting fuel injected bikes, no.

[mpusch]

Every time I turn off my bike.

[Mastodon2]

Speed addicted said:

Yes. For doing mahoosive backfires to scare mates and passers by.

Since getting fuel injected bikes, no.

How do you do that then? Pull clutch in, flip killswitch, free-wheel along for a bit then flip killswitch and hit the starter again?

[accident]

Mastodon2 said:

How do you do that then? Pull clutch in, flip killswitch, free-wheel along for a bit then flip killswitch and hit the starter again?

really youve never done a poppit?
carbed bike going allong a narrow street or tunnel is better hit kill switch(in gear do not alter throttle or pull clutch)wait a few seconds you slow down a bit due to engine braking,then put kill switch to on position and enjoy the bang

[Hooli]

Only ever used it to test it for the MOT.

[Mastodon2]

accident said:

really youve never done a poppit?
carbed bike going allong a narrow street or tunnel is better hit kill switch(in gear do not alter throttle or pull clutch)wait a few seconds you slow down a bit due to engine braking,then put kill switch to on position and enjoy the bang

I've never done that! I might try it some time. I've seen a video of kids doing similar in a Peugeot 106, driving down the road, turning the ignition off and then coasting, firing the engine up again and cause the fuel to flash off with a bang.

[pozi]

srob said:

Real men use decompressors

I just assumed old bikes had the little metal strip over the spark plug to earth it like lawnmowers

[Speed addicted]

accident said:

Mastodon2 said:

How do you do that then? Pull clutch in, flip killswitch, free-wheel along for a bit then flip killswitch and hit the starter again?

really youve never done a poppit?
carbed bike going allong a narrow street or tunnel is better hit kill switch(in gear do not alter throttle or pull clutch)wait a few seconds you slow down a bit due to engine braking,then put kill switch to on position and enjoy the bang

This, but if you leave it too long it sounds like a shotgun, you get two feet of flames and in one case you get to weld up the center section of a 1200 bandit exhaust.

I found low gear/high revs to make the best bangs.

I really do miss carbed bikes!

[Mastodon2]

Speed addicted said:

This, but if you leave it too long it sounds like a shotgun, you get two feet of flames and in one case you get to weld up the center section of a 1200 bandit exhaust.

Hmmm, second thoughts now!