Handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch to stop bike?
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From: gummymonkey on 19 Oct 2009 11:10 Do you use the handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch to stop your bike? I have been told that my Triumph Bonneville has been eating ignition coils every 1500 miles, because I have been using the engine cut out switch, that is on the handle bars to much. It was explained = It's to do with the correct power down procedure for the microprocessor inside the igniter / (cdi) likened to pulling the plug on a PC. Instead of pressing the turn off button, does this sound accurate? I have used /worn out 4 ignition coils 3 Gill and 1 PVL in 8500 miles... Well to be fair the first one lasted 4500 miles so that's 3 coils in 4000 miles...
From: Champ on 19 Oct 2009 12:27 On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:21 +0100, <gummymonkey(a)madeup.com> wrote: >Do you use the handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch to stop >your bike? I always use the kill switch, and have done on every bike I've owned for nearly 30 years. >I have been told that my Triumph Bonneville has been eating ignition coils >every 1500 miles, because I have been using the engine cut out switch, that >is on the handle bars to much. This is bollocks. >It was explained = It's to do with the correct power down procedure for the >microprocessor inside the igniter / (cdi) likened to pulling the plug on a >PC. Instead of pressing the turn off button, does this sound accurate? It sounds like complete wank. >I have used /worn out 4 ignition coils 3 Gill and 1 PVL in 8500 miles... > >Well to be fair the first one lasted 4500 miles so that's 3 coils in 4000 >miles... There's something wrong with the bike, and it ain't you. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Kevin Stone on 19 Oct 2009 12:30 >> Do you use the handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch to >> stop your bike? Always, always, always the kill switch, on every bike I've ever owned for eternity (nearly). In fact, I don't actually recall the first bike I had with it...did a 1980 CB250 have one? -- Kev
From: Pete Fisher on 19 Oct 2009 12:39 In communiqu� <-bydnQtxOY60CUHXnZ2dnUVZ8mydnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Kevin Stone <newsaccount(a)hotpop.com> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >>> Do you use the handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch to >>> stop your bike? > >Always, always, always the kill switch, on every bike I've ever owned for >eternity (nearly). > >In fact, I don't actually recall the first bike I had with it...did a 1980 >CB250 have one? > I almost always use the key. Mainly to prevent that feeling of despair when it won't start. The elation on realising it is just the kill switch is bad for the heart. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster [ SPACE ! ] Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 19 Oct 2009 12:44
gummymonkey(a)madeup.com wrote: > Do you use the handle bar engine kill switch or ignition key switch > to stop your bike? > > I have been told that my Triumph Bonneville has been eating ignition > coils every 1500 miles, because I have been using the engine cut out > switch, that is on the handle bars to much. > > It was explained = It's to do with the correct power down procedure > for the microprocessor inside the igniter / (cdi) likened to pulling > the plug on a PC. Instead of pressing the turn off button, does this > sound accurate? > I have used /worn out 4 ignition coils 3 Gill and 1 PVL in 8500 > miles... > Well to be fair the first one lasted 4500 miles so that's 3 coils in > 4000 miles... If that's not complete and utter bollocks it definitely should be. -- Si '88 XV535, '82 XJ550 being fettled. |