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I have a question about turning the ST off.  Seems dumb, but here it
goes.  I noted that in the owners manual they say specifically to turn
off the ignition first, then the engine cutoff.  As an MSF instructor I
have found it extremely difficult to remeber this sequence.  It is
engrained in our instructor minds to teach our students to shut the
engine off with the engine cutoff, then the ignition, then the fuel
shutoff in that order.  This is obviously for safety mostly so the
student has the engine shut off before either hand moves off of the
controls.

I have made this a practice of my own also.  Two years ago a buddy of
mine brought his bike over for some routing maintenance and I went to
shut his bike off with the engine cutoff and the engine just kept on
running.  I pointed this out to him and he said he never uses it.  Turns
out that the switch corroded and was now ineffective, I'm guessing
mostly from lack of use.

My question is: will any harm come to the bike or electrical system by
using the engine cutoff first, then the ignition switch.  I'm hoping
that Triumph suggests the reverse in an effort to keep us from killing
batteries otherwise I'm going to have to break this habit.

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