Maybe instead of actually mesing with the switch you could tie or tape the clutch lever, as if you were pulling it.

Normally iopen switch, disconnect & short the wires to it, tells the bike the lever is pulled & is easily reversed.

Bypassing safety switches is usually pretty easy. Its a matter of finding out whether the switch is normally open or normally closed, and rearranging the wiring to match. However, in today's litigious society I hesitate even to tell anyone how to do it, let alone recommending it.

The safety feature that annoys me most isn't even found on a motorcycle. It is the "feature" that requires one to step on the brake pedal before shifting the transmission out of PARK. I know why it is there - it is to protect the fools who don't know how to properly set a parking brake but instead rely on PARK to hold the vehicle in place.

Charon wrote on 11/18/08 at 08:56:47:


Thought that was developed for a different set of fools - the kind that only bought Audi 5000's. According to Audi only the buyers of the 5000’s would get mixed up as to which was for gas and which was for the brake when they would start the car of a morning and it would run through the back of the garage, even if, according to some people at the time, they had both feet on the brake - it was only a coincidence that Audi put out a software update to their computer controlled throttle linkage about the same time all of these cases were reported.