Re: [ST] Weekly Charging of Battery needed...Explanation?

[Andrew Tait <antait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

  Kevin Dicks wrote:

> I also never use the kill switch to turn the bike off - never really
> understood the need for a kill switch on a bike when, generally, the key is
> right by the side of it (I know some bikes have the key elsewhere).

I once had a throttle cable seize in the fully open position.  Fast 
(90mph+) approach to a busy junction, hit the brakes, watched the engine 
redline as I declutched, so hit kill switch.  If I'd taken my left hand 
off the clutch, I would have been ploughing on at full throttle, and 
taking my right hand off the brake would have been a bit messy too.

There are probably other reasons to do with things like the steering 
lock, althought that's unlikely on a bike.  I had that happen as a 
passenger in a car.  Insane driver turned off key as a joke at night on 
an unlit back road, turned a sharp corner and I heard the 'click' as the 
steering lock activated.  Another pair of perfectly good underpants 
ruined...

Anyway, I think the reasoning behind the kill switch is just to give you 
a way to kill the engine whilst keeping control.  No doubt its existence 
is shrouded in history and legislation that means it is 'just there'.  :o)

Andrew
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