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Yeah but is he honestly going to take the key with him? Stash it in his pocket while chasing down a suspect? Plus it'd be a ballsy dude that'd take a cop bike for a spin.  I think BMW killswitches are those funny levers, not a toggle, so maybe it's just hard to hit it? I should ask on BARF in the LEO forum and see what they say.
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Yeah, BMW's switchblocks used to be some wack poo poo. that's the killswitch/starter at the top I can presume: I'm glad they came to their senses on that, My GS has a rocker switch i.e up = kill, down = start and a standard indicator switch instead of their left hand/right hand paddle bullshit Still, Why kill it with the key though? Don't waste time putting it in neutral or anything. all you have to do is put the kickstand down with the bike in gear. theperminator fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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The best starter/kill switch I've ever seen still goes to Ducati. My StreetFighter had a switch that you flip up to reveal the starter button. Every time you fired it up you felt like you were launching a sidewinder from an F14. Glorious.  You can see the 'kill switch' flipped in the UP position on the right side. Flip, reveal, press. ...somedays I really miss that bike...  those were the days
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kloa posted:Ooooh, can they make a TV show purely from this perspective? Sigh. See the link I posted to this on the previous page. (music).
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Pokey Araya posted:Also how did he stall the bike at 3:40ish?
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theperminator posted:Still, Why kill it with the key though? Don't waste time putting it in neutral or anything. all you have to do is put the kickstand down with the bike in gear. Some manufacturers use BIG LETTERS to tell you to kill the engine with the key and not the killswitch or an interlock. No idea why. On a cop bike I would wonder if the ignition key drops the lights and other electrical loads while the killswitch doesn't, so the cop doesn't come back to a dead battery, or something like that.
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Spiffness posted:The best starter/kill switch I've ever seen still goes to Ducati. Ducati SF's are hands-down the best looking naked sports ever, in my book. They LOOK like they're a bundle of angry energy. I know practically every streetfighter bike is meant to look like a supersports without the bullshit but only the ducati really gets there for me, plus it's the only one with a non-conventional headlight that doesn't look stupid. These look like a streetfighter-lite and is probably closer to what I'd ride every day:  The fantastic instrument cluster almost cancels out the godawful exhaust.
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That rear wheel looks amazing.  I see what you mean about the exhaust though. Ugh.
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That 4-spoker is the dumbest SSA rear wheel since the Triumph swoopy three-spoke. Its angles and curves match up with nothing else on the bike; the more angular late-model VFR 5-spoke would work far better. And the headlight will never not look like a gas mask. The exhaust is at least the same one from the CBR1000RR.
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Snowdens Secret posted:That 4-spoker is the dumbest SSA rear wheel since the Triumph swoopy three-spoke. Its angles and curves match up with nothing else on the bike; the more angular late-model VFR 5-spoke would work far better. And the headlight will never not look like a gas mask. The exhaust is at least the same one from the CBR1000RR. It's one of those odd bikes that appeals to me because it has all the features I want on a bike, if I had to have just one bike (which generally I have to). But when you really look at it, it's completely un-cohesive (is that a word?).
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Slavvy posted:I was thinking more along the lines of: how is a bike supposed to 'stop' a car? What stops the guy from just ramming the cop and laughing? Its never his intention to stop the car once the driver decided to run. All he can do is use the bikes superior performance to keep up with the car and inform officers in squad cars of his location.
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Its April and spring right! Weaaaaatheeeeeeeeer!  (Thats loving hail)
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Yeah, I recently bought a bike and it snowed the day after.
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ElMaligno posted:Its April and spring right! That happened to me the first time I went to the ORV park with the antiques. Bikes did alright, but the truck barely made it up that "hill" back there. 
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Man I had to get a awesome running start a few years ago with my 4x4-but-4x4-doesnt-actually-engage B4000 (Ranger) at the time, then as I'm heading up a big Chevy HD 3500 comes down in the middle of the road around that corner, wheels locked, totally out of control and drat near took me off the road. Bit of a commitment to get to Walker when its been that icy out in Big Lake.
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Apr 12, 2013 19:17
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Lovely day today so I went for a ride!       
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Today after some bombing around the city -> suburbs and back, I looked at my rear tire and realized that I was closer to the edge than ever before. Is having a dirt bike handlebar considered cheating on a SuperSport?  
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infraboy posted:Lovely day today so I went for a ride! This is beautiful, whereabouts is it?
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Slavvy posted:This is beautiful, whereabouts is it? Tomales/Marshall/Nick's Cove, part of Highway 1 west of Petaluma/Marin county
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I came across this girl today. So pretty...I only wish the owner had come by to start it up so I could hear it. Brapply   (Honda GB500) Definitely one of the bikes for my dream stable. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 13, 2013 |
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Pristine wheels but let his vice grips rust. Shameful.
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back to copchat for a tic, I'm casting my vote for turning the key also kills lights and sirens really quickly. There's probably 10 switches for all that poo poo and one key turn kills them all. that video was great and was made way better with the soundtrack.
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Some people just kill the bike with the key, especially older riders I've run in to. I hit the kill switch but when people ask me why I only could say "it's what the MSF taught me". Since then I've noticed it is useful for moving bikes around if you aren't starting them. I'd put the key in my Dad's bike and unlock the steering only to hear the fuel pump prime. It doesn't do that if the kill switch is off.
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Cop POV videos? This YT-channel has some neat vids on dutch ambulance/vip escort teams. The commander of a team rides just ahead of the ambulance/convoy and two or three bikes ride ahead to clear lanes, warn about road conditions and stop traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEvgNM7iE8
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Yeah but your bike wasn't manufactured by alcoholics, the 06/07 675s originally didn't have a relay for the fuel pump, actually using the kill switch eventually resulted in frying your ECU.
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nsaP posted:Some people just kill the bike with the key, especially older riders I've run in to. I hit the kill switch but when people ask me why I only could say "it's what the MSF taught me". Since then I've noticed it is useful for moving bikes around if you aren't starting them. I'd put the key in my Dad's bike and unlock the steering only to hear the fuel pump prime. It doesn't do that if the kill switch is off. My Multi's ignition cylinder has goes park-lock-off-run. It only does something (pump prime, gauge sweep, etc.) in run. Park turns on your parking lights and is annoying because it is like a 2mm turn away from lock with not much of a detent, so it's easy to accidentally leave it in park and come back to a flat battery. I think my Aprilia was similar, with lock and off being separate, but I don't remember if the pump primed in off.
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theperminator posted:Yeah but your bike wasn't manufactured by alcoholics, the 06/07 675s originally didn't have a relay for the fuel pump, actually using the kill switch eventually resulted in frying your ECU. Lucas electrics were delivered to us by the devil himself. I do not know of a Triumph that hasn't had electrical problems of one kind of another. My favourite was a layout on the old 600 Daytona that resulted in the starter relay filling with water each time the bike was left in the rain. At least "diagnosing" that one was fun, given it was my brother's bike and he thought it was related to heat. Had to make the bike hot, see...
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nsaP posted:Some people just kill the bike with the key, especially older riders I've run in to. I hit the kill switch but when people ask me why I only could say "it's what the MSF taught me". That's weird, I always kill the bike with the key, and MSF didn't do anything for that as far as I can remember. I pretty much only use the killswitch for emergencies, or rarely if I'm parking and can't take either hand off the bars.
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Sagebrush posted:I came across this girl today. So pretty...I only wish the owner had come by to start it up so I could hear it. Brapply Very pretty. I don't think I've ever seen one of those before.
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Honda says the letters in front of the numbers don't mean anything but I'm pretty sure we know the GB wasn't random in this case.
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Z3n posted:Looked like killed the bike with the key. Wonder why he didn't use the killswitch. I..people do that? Maybe it just comes from mostly owning stuff with the blue and white propeller on it, but I've always just used the key to kill it. The kill switch for me has generally been a "oh poo poo, bike's on it's side, get it off" type device. For me at least, it's always just been a good mental checklist, key off, pull key. No more getting halfway through the parking lot and going "oh poo poo".
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I almost always use the key and always have been that way. Only time I might use the kill switch is if I know I'm going to be restarting very soon.
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Spiffness posted:Man I had to get a awesome running start a few years ago with my 4x4-but-4x4-doesnt-actually-engage B4000 (Ranger) at the time, then as I'm heading up a big Chevy HD 3500 comes down in the middle of the road around that corner, wheels locked, totally out of control and drat near took me off the road. My started died in that lot, we had someone tow my truck up the hill backwards then release so I could bump start it.
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front wing flexing posted:Honda says the letters in front of the numbers don't mean anything but I'm pretty sure we know the GB wasn't random in this case. No poo poo, I thought that was some Norton when I first saw it.
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I only used the kill switch once, which I promptly forgot about. Not fun on a kick started bike.Sagebrush posted:I came across this girl today. So pretty...I only wish the owner had come by to start it up so I could hear it. Brapply Man that jogs my memory, a while back I read a vintage comparo of the SRX600 and that bike, pretty interesting. The SRX600 is prettier though  Of course, they both completely flopped.
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Killswitch because you can zoom silently in to the parking space. 
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KARMA! posted:Killswitch because you can zoom silently in to the parking space. You can do this with the key, too, with the added benefit of no lights. Unless your key turns off your power steering and you lose your brake booster when the engine's off, or something.
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