That is if the bowl vents are plugged, that is if the engine has vacuum left over and slide is partially up, that is if the intake valve is open, that is if gas can run down past the rings .......... Odds are actually better to be hit by lightning!

 

Ys Guy's reasoning sounds the best so far - to get your thumb trained to pressing it so that when your throttle cable sticks and you go flying off at high speed in some random direction you don't have to think about what to do - you just push it on reflex. I always used the main switch before, but that is good enough reasoning for me and I think I will start using the kill switch myself.

 

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/11612...ghtning_Strike

 

They taught us 2 bad habits in the MSF class I took. 1 was to put the bike in neutral before turning the engine off, and 2 was to use the kill switch to turn the engine off. These 2 things will leave a good possibility of the rider finding their bike laying on its side with a dead battery when they return.

 

See, I told you so. [sm=exactly.gif]

 

the dealer told me to use the key and not the kill switch to shut the bike down.Hey Deej, you must have a safe parking lot at work to just leave your key in the bike.

 

I've never had a problem with the bike falling over because I was parked in neutral, but then I don't live in San Francisco. I did have a problem because the kick-stand sunk in the ground, however.

There seem to be a few other neutral related issues, too: kick-stand and cluch safety interlock switches.

I've never been too concerned, but with all this pre-occupation about neutral and safety, it makes you wonder about how paranoid those Swiss must be!!!

 

Well to tell you the truth in 11 years I have never taken my keys out of the ignition here at work, we only have 8 people working here and we are located 2 miles from town in a secluded spot. Here's a couple of pictures. Man I love my job.




I park the KLX by the shop and on the sidewalk so I can look out and see it anytime.


And when the weather is really nice I park it right outside my office.

 

edit, picture too large and can't resize[:@]

 

But you know you have a problem when your desk at home looks like this.[8D]



I guess I'm in a picture sharing mood so here are a few more. I forgot who made this for me but I kept it.......Sully was that you?


A typical quad trail around here.