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RE: Disappointing Birthday Present - JustPassinThru_imp - 04-07-2015
(04-07-2015, 09:26 PM)Hedge_imp Wrote:(04-07-2015, 11:56 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: On my old Quota the tank bag, at full turn would either blow the horn (Happens on the Griso now) or trip the kill switch - first time that happened it was very embarrassing after enlisting the aid of a ton of people.
I enlisted a whole forum trying to troubleshoot it until some sage suggested I take a look at the kill switch position . . .
I enlisted a whole forum trying to troubleshoot it until some sage suggested I take a look at the kill switch position . . .
My first bike, a 1972 R5C...did not have a kill switch. Weren't required then. When bought my first new bike, my first "big" machine, an SR 500...yup, it had a kill switch. Which I didn't really have a habit of ever using.
So. With about two months owership, and a season and a half of total riding experience...I take my new toy on my first serious road trip, about 150 miles away. Backroads the whole way. I stop for gas at a little shop in a little town where the proprietor is straight out of a parody movie...and then, set the kick-starter up, roll the engine through until the white dot on the camshaft shows through the little window...kick...nothing.
Repeat times seven. Now I'm winded...and panicking...
...and the crusty old-timer suggests, dryly, that maybe I ought to check the kill switch. Which of course was off.
I have never forgotten that.