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Anybody ever accidentally hit the kill switch while traveling over 50 mph ??

Peacekeeper6

Peacekeeper6

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So last night, I was doing about 55 mph and hit the wrong button. Instead of setting the cruise (for the first time ever, since I'm was still breaking in our bike), I accidentally hit the red kill switch and turned the bike off for about 3-4 seconds or so. During that time, nothing really bad happened: the motor quit, the lights stayed on and the bike coasted. I then switched it back on and applied throttle just to make sure she had power, and she did.

I've heard that damage may occur if you coasted in a car while in gear. Not sure, but it had something to do with the emission systems (cat maybe ??). Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has ever done something like this to their Spyder, and if I did any long-term damage to our bike.

Thanks in advance....
 
Peacekeeper6 said:
So last night, I was doing about 55 mph and hit the wrong button. Instead of setting the cruise (for the first time ever, since I'm was still breaking in our bike), I accidentally hit the red kill switch and turned the bike off for about 3-4 seconds or so. During that time, nothing really bad happened: the motor quit, the lights stayed on and the bike coasted. I then switched it back on and applied throttle just to make sure she had power, and she did.

I've heard that damage may occur if you coasted in a car while in gear. Not sure, but it had something to do with the emission systems (cat maybe ??). Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has ever done something like this to their Spyder, and if I did any long-term damage to our bike.

Thanks in advance....
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I've never done it, but it's good knowing that nothing stupid happened when you did it, the biggest worry would be a lock up of the rear tire, other than that you're bike is all good!
 
That brings to mind, when on a ride be it on 2 wheels or more there is always
always one of your buddy's who while you are in a cafe or bathroom or in paying for gas or....
who will flip your kill switch so when you come out and hop on and get ready to go
everyone is up and running and moving, you hit the starter and.... nothing, nada , zip, don't start
now on with the panic.... now what the hell is wrong with this damn thing... all your buddy's are laughing....
 
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:roflblack::roflblack:, .... some won't admit to it ..:yikes: .... but it has happened on occasion to more than a few ...and I'm guilty also ... Mike :thumbup:
 
All I can say is sometimes my fingers have a mind or their own and want to play a joke on me.
 
It wasn’t the Kill switch, but very similar......I had just installed Lamont’s IPS key cover. I thought, I’ll do a quick u-turn here before that car arrives......half way around, complete power off.......car still coming and I was in gear and not moving.......yep, my GPS cable was a just the wrong angle (I had moved it), and had snagged one of the fins in the IPS key cover and switched the F3 off. Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh.....

I managed to switch back on and get off the road before the car arrived, after which I changed my underpants :opps:

Pete
 
In the for what it is worth category ....................... if you accidentally hit your electric parking brake at over 6 miles an hour, the computer ignores it completely.

Cruzr Joe
 
Yes, 70+ mph, far left lane, 5 lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic, downtown LA, CA. And no left hand shoulder. I had to get all the way over to the right hand to get to a shoulder with no power. I accidentally hit the kill switch while adjusting my right hand side mirror with a heavy gloved hand and I didn't realize it. It's a wonder that I lived through that one. Felt pretty stupid when I figured it out. Now, it's the first thing I would check if it ever happens again. But it never has.
 
Been there done that on more than one occasion. On my older bikes with carburetors I got a nice backfire when I switched it back on. I can see where that could damage something in the exhaust if BOOM was big enough. On my Spyder with fuel injection nothing happened except the engine started and down the road I went.
 
Peacekeeper6 said:
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I've heard that damage may occur if you coasted in a car while in gear. Not sure, but it had something to do with the emission systems (cat maybe ??). Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has ever done something like this to their Spyder, and if I did any long-term damage to our bike.

Thanks in advance....
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If anyone is interested in the background behind all this..... :dontknow:

Back in the days of Carburetors & Mechanical (or even separately powered electrical) Fuel pumps on internal combustion engines, not only was there a significant risk of damage due to the lack of power and control, but there was a BIIG potential for 'in the exhaust system' trouble if you shut off the ignition and continued coasting in gear before re-applying spark.... but quite a few people did it, and only some of them ever got caught out & blew things up!! :shocked:

Then came emission control & catalytic converters etc, and that 'in the exhaust system' trouble changed, cos those cats REALLY don't like raw unburnt fuel, so that added to the potential for damage - and even when Fuel Injection first came out, before all of the electronic and computer controls that we have today happened along, it was still possible to get raw atomised fuel into the exhaust by coasting in gear with no ignition, where either heat (from the exhaust itself, or from the 'built in heat generator', the catalytic converter) or turning the ignition back on could cause it all to ignite and cause a pretty substantial 'bang' that could but didn't often do some explosive damage, but it didn't take long to work that out, so some genius linked the fuel pump operation to the ignition circuit and with that, the risk was suddenly made a whole lot less than with those earlier fuel/spark systems.... but that unburnt or even partially burnt fuel in the exhaust could still damage the catalyst on the catalytic converter so your engine emissions weren't quite so clean for ever after! :lecturef_smilie:

But these days, with Common Rail Fuel Injection Systems and computer timed fuel pulses that are matched with the injection pulses and fail-safes that cut not only the fuel pump output but also both the fuel injection and/or the spark if anything isn't timed right, it takes something REALLY out of the ordinary (or someone who's really 'talented' :rolleyes: ) to get raw unburnt or partially burnt fuel into the exhaust system and then re-ignite it.... that's not saying it can't &/or doesn't ever happen, it's just that there's HEAPS of fail-safes built into the systems now that hafta either all throw in the towel at the same instant or they've ALL gotta be subverted at that same instant somehow for anything really bad along the lines of what could happen with carbie'd engines & mechanical fuel pumps 'in the exhaust system' - and the risk of damage to the catalytic converter by un or partially burnt fuel has been massively minimised by all the controls & fail-safes too - so not only do we get WAAAAYYY more power and better fuel economy from our modern engines, we also get less of the damaging emissions AND there's virtually NO chance of actually damaging anything 'in the exhaust system' of your modern vehicle by coasting in gear with the ignition off!! :ohyea:

That's not saying there still isn't a significant risk of damage to you/your vehicle/other road users due to rolling along without power & reduced control :shocked: but accidentally flicking the Emergency Stop button on your Spyder isn't all that likely to do much 'internal' damage, just so long as you don't make a habit of it or let it continue for too long/too often!! :lecturef_smilie: So rest easy on that count - we've probably all done it, or will do it, without any significant issues (apart from in our shorts! :sour: ) but we do all try pretty hard not to make a habit of it! :thumbup:
 
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Way, way back in the day, if I was being tailgated by a cager, I would turn the key off and then on again. The resulting boom as well as the shot of flame out the exhaust would end the tailgating. He would just slowly disappear.
 
Peter Aawen said:
If anyone is interested in the background behind all this..... :dontknow:

Back in the days of Carburetors & Mechanical (or even separately powered electrical) Fuel pumps on internal combustion engines, not only was there a significant risk of damage due to the lack of power and control, but there was a BIIG potential for 'in the exhaust system' trouble if you shut off the ignition and continued coasting in gear before re-applying spark.... but quite a few people did it, and only some of them ever got caught out & blew things up!! :shocked:


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You mean like when the muffler split at the seams, or blew the rear pipe off and it got caught up in the drive shaft, or you did it and the Sheriff was setting parked right around the corner, or it was your parents month old car..........

Your not talking about that kind of stuff are you? :cheers:
 
EdMat said:
You mean like when the muffler split at the seams, or blew the rear pipe off and it got caught up in the drive shaft, or you did it and the Sheriff was setting parked right around the corner, or it was your parents month old car..........

Your not talking about that kind of stuff are you? :cheers:
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:rolleyes: Who, me??!? :dontknow:

But I'm not really sure I like your tone of voice - in fact, I resemble that! :shocked:





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