Does it really matter how I turn off the bike?

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Laney

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I got in the habit of using the kill switch because when I get home at night I need the lights to still be on while I'm turning the bike around in my narrow driveway, and when it's late I don't like to keep the engine running while I do that. So, hitting the kill switch leaves the ignition on and the lights on. And of course, it also leaves the tunes on for me while parking the bike. I never have a problem leaving the ignition on because I have a habit of locking the ignition every time I park.
 
Laste year this subject was brought up. It was said then that using the kill switch would be harmful for some reason.
I use the ignition switch.
The reason I do is that same thread (last year) pointed out that on some of the TBW bikes, when you use the kill switch and dont have your hand off the throttle the bike remembers the throttle position as idle. So they were getting high idle. They said it was due to that.
Do I think it is? I dont know and dont like repeating bad things others have had issues with.
So just to make sure...
 
I was in the habit of turning off the ignition when my salesman saw me doing it and said that I really should use the kill switch (I forget why he felt it was so important). Since then I only use the kill switch, guess it's just second nature for me now.
 
I wonder, if this was a different example what answers would we get? How about this. I have an outlet in my garage controlled by a wall switch. I plug my trouble light into the outlet. Should I shut off the light by the switch on the handle or should I shut it off with the wall switch? Ok, now that I have you wondering, it is a trick question. We all know you should always shut power down at the breaker box. The prize goes to the person who says, "It doesn't matter", because it doesn't. This is not rocket science, it's the very basics of electronics.
 
So I suppose if you're laying under a car working on it using your drop light and you accidentally bust the bulb and have the bare filaments exposed, you wouldn't use the switch on the handle to kill the power, you would just leave it, slide out from under the car, go to the breaker panel and shut the breaker off (supposing you know which breaker it is)? Just wondering
 
Now, read my whole post and you would know I was being sarcastic and no, I wouldn't. But ....... there are a large group out there who, if they read it on the internet it must be true, would most certainly argue that was the way to do it. Like I said, it's not rocket science, it's two electrical switches, one on the key switch, one on the rocker switch, they both shut the engine off.
 
Sure nuff...although I saw a guy in the RLAP video tip his Goldwing over and it keep running and crawling forward while he was trying to stop it. Good thing his leg wasn't caught under it. Probably a good time for shut off switch employment.
 
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