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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:00:49 CST
- From: <U11303@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92327.160049U11303@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Squash or slide? (Kill switches)
- References: <1992Nov18.112304.10192@aber.ac.uk>
- <1992Nov19.233137.24262@serval.net.wsu.edu> <7686@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- <1992Nov22.172930.461@rd.hydro.on.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov22.172930.461@rd.hydro.on.ca>, jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody
- Levine) says:
- >
- >What I want to know is, how many people have actually managed to hit the kill
- >switch during a crash? In my low-speed low-side I wound up standing over the
- >bike (in recently scratched leathers) still holding the clutch lever, and
- >the engine was still running! It would have been a pain to get it into neutral
- >so I just shut it off.
- >
-
- I didn't manage, had no idea I would have to. But I don't think hitting the
- kill switch is top priority. The bike isn't going any where on it's side
- (once it stops sliding). Unless you are worried about explosions. It would
- most likely stall anyway. If I had time to consider using the kill switch,
- I could try to straighten the bike up to avoid the low-side in the first place.
-
- I do use the kill switch, however, for rolling into the driveway late at night.
- Or at other times when convenient.
-
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- Mark Komosa u11303@uicvm.uic.edu DoD #0791 CB700SC
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