Does anyone use this?

[Biggles]

Sounds like a dodgy switch.  Mine is solid.

And I'll bet you found that out trying the bottom of the switch after Sicman's little joke:

"I only use the bottom half to start her."

[royst1100]

mine gave out at the most awkward time an is now bypassed. i just use side stand as i don't leave out of gear

[atoyot]

Sounds like a dodgy switch.  Mine is solid.

And I'll bet you found that out trying the bottom of the switch after Sicman's little joke:

"I only use the bottom half to start her."

Maybe a bit dodgy, and not sure if anything inside it is serviceable, but I'll pull it apart and check it out. Thought it might have been a feature as it is momentary off, but can't think of a use for it....

Actually, no, I bumped it on Tuesday on a ride down the Oxley, but I can see the irony

[Williamson]

........Most motorcycle training courses suggest that you get in the habit of using the motorcycle KILL switch to shut off your bike.....

In an earlier life (from the early 1980's to the mid-1990's) I was an RTA/VicRoads rider trainer.  The rider training course introduced by the RTA was based on (copied from?) the UK Motorcycle Operator Skill Test (MOST) training course.  (I understand that the courses currently run by HART, Armstrongs, DECA, and probably others is still based on the MOST course.)

Anyway, part of the course involved instructions on how to start a motorbike (remember we were dealing with some real newbies), and this involved the FINE technique.

The theory behind the FINE technique was that if the bike didn't start, everything was not "fine".

A free beer (at Metung on Saturday 19 or at Ballarat next March) to the first response that knows / remembers / works out what FINE means.

[Hendo]

Fuel
Ignition
Neutral
Engine cut off

 

[Hendo]

Actually I remember a C on the end for Choke....

Been a few years though.

[Williamson]

Fuel
Ignition
Neutral
Engine cut off

 

To be precise:
Fuel = fuel "on" - remember we all had fuel valves in those days
Ignition = ignition "on" -D'oh
Neutral = "engage" neutral
Engine cut off - to "run" position

A beer coming your way Hendo.  I see you are just around the corner, I might be able to drop it off on my way to work tomorrow.

 

Actually I remember a C on the end for Choke....

Been a few years though.

Yep!  FINE-C, where C=choke - I'd forgot that bit, but I have not had a choke for ten years.