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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #15 - 08/14/12 at 04:38:33 Wolfman wrote on 08/14/12 at 01:23:13: Key on, Key off. Thats what its for. You never leave your key in the bike and you don't kill the battery. Leave the emergency switch for emergencies.. HouTexS402009 get yourself a key hook and get in the habbit of hanging the key up, make it part of your riding routine
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #16 - 08/14/12 at 05:55:51 And i wouldn't kill it with the kick switch. Wear n tear on the gears you don't need --------------------------------------------------------- How does that work ?
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Reply #17 - 08/14/12 at 08:14:41

So many different experiences. When I took the motorcycle safety course, the instructor told us to always hit the kill switch when we stop the bike and are getting off. That is now a habit.

IMHO, a battery saver isn't for the good days (99% of the time) when I do things right, it is for that one time that I don't, and it saves my bacon! Grin

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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #18 - 08/14/12 at 08:27:57 The only real reason for routinely shutting the engine down using the kill switch is to verify it still works.
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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #19 - 08/14/12 at 08:38:20 I'm just trying to figure out why someone wouldn't turn off their ignition in the first place. That's complete n00b stuff if you ask me. It's like forgetting to put a car into park before getting out of it and it rolls down the driveway. It's not something I would even admit to let alone post it on a public forum.
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Reply #20 - 08/14/12 at 08:53:37

Cavi Mike wrote on 08/14/12 at 08:38:20:

I'm just trying to figure out why someone wouldn't turn off their ignition in the first place. That's complete n00b stuff if you ask me. It's like forgetting to put a car into park before getting out of it and it rolls down the driveway. It's not something I would even admit to let alone post it on a public forum.

For me......it can just be from habit. I have owned and ridden off-road motorcycles for years and years and years. Every one of the them has a kill switch on the handlebars, no battery....and no key. The routine that has been my normal operational procedure has been to ride up to the stopping point, find neutral, hit the kill switch, turn off the petcock, put down the kickstand and lean the bike over.

Then when I bought the Savage I had to learn about a key......and unlearn the need to shut the automatic petcock off.

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Reply #21 - 08/14/12 at 10:42:28

Cavi Mike wrote on 08/14/12 at 08:38:20:

I'm just trying to figure out why someone wouldn't turn off their ignition in the first place. That's complete n00b stuff if you ask me. It's like forgetting to put a car into park before getting out of it and it rolls down the driveway. It's not something I would even admit to let alone post it on a public forum.

Gee...I wonder why there is an interlock on the key and the park position on the transmission on new cars? Must have happened more than once with tragic consequences. Just because its embarassing and a mistake, doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed and a fix invented. Wink

And I still would like to have a battery saver, its just smart to have a backup if your primary plan fails. Roll Eyes

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Wolfman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 664 SW Missouri Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #22 - 08/14/12 at 12:14:34 For some reason routy i was thinking he was dumping the clutch while in gear. Not useing the kickstand. It was 1:30 in the morning....bite me...lol
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Foxman276 YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 35 Nova Scotia, Canada	Re: battery saver system Reply #23 - 08/14/12 at 12:24:46 Kill Switch is the only way I know of to stop the engine and look cool coasting into a parking space at the Tim Hortons! (national coffee chain in Canada and home to bikers across the country).
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Reply #24 - 08/14/12 at 12:28:52

Foxman276 wrote on 08/14/12 at 12:24:46:

Kill Switch is the only way I know of to stop the engine and look cool coasting into a parking space at the Tim Hortons! (national coffee chain in Canada and home to bikers across the country).

And then you look really cool when all the bikers yell "EH.. Ya left your LIGHTS ON" Grin

If you want to sound really cool, you flip the kill switch to kill then back to run as you make your approach. Ka POW.. nice after fire.

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Reply #25 - 08/14/12 at 19:30:56

Wolfman wrote on 08/14/12 at 12:14:34:

For some reason routy i was thinking he was dumping the clutch while in gear. Not useing the kickstand. It was 1:30 in the morning....bite me...lol

Wolf, haven't had to dump the clutch to make an engine stop since the early 80s. The younger kids won't get that, but you probably will. Embarrassing to pull up in a new car and have to hit it with a hammer to make it stop trying to run. Grin

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Reply #26 - 08/15/12 at 04:43:40

Yeah Boofer, been there done that...lol
'Back then' your buds didn't think to much about it. Ya had wheels.
Now days you'd get all kinds of grief about it.
He!!, if it had wheels and run 'back then' you was the popular one of the bunch. Didn't have to be the newest or shiniest, it just had to RUN!...lol
Rattle...chug...rattle...chug chug...rattle rattle...chug...wheeezzzee! Cheesy

Didn't have to have speakers half the size of the car to fill up the trunk or back seat either.
Or some dinky lil 4 cyl with a SPOILER for gods sake on the rear...roflmao
Gripeing about gas getting high at 55 cents a gal. Shocked

D@mn, Now im feeling OLD! :'(

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Reply #27 - 08/15/12 at 04:54:33

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Back then you were the popular one of the bunch if you had a dollars worth of gas for the nite's cruzin !

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Reply #28 - 08/17/12 at 02:53:14

Dollars worth of gas would get you two gallons, about 90 miles or so. What ever happened with that? New cars are supposed to be so superior to our old clunkers of yesteryear. Yet we ran around 40 mpg.
They act like 22 mpg is spectacular now days. With lighter more efficient cars???...lol

Cruzin down the strip or around the square. Least wise till the cops ran you off...lol
Checkin out the local drive-in dinner for chicks or hitting a drive-in movie.
For you youngsters that was a place you could go to watch a movie and never leave your car. Except for treats, the bathroom or to check out your buddies car when the windows fogged up...lol
Had more money then sense from working the hay fields back then. So that wasn't much of a problem. Money went a LOT farther back then to!
Now days its more sense then money. :'(

ANNDDD it was EASY to work on your own vehicles back then. Didn't need a super computer or truckload of special tools like now days...lol

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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: battery saver system Reply #29 - 08/17/12 at 05:06:52 40 mpg ?? In '78 I had a little Civic that would do that. In '59, my first car....'55 Ford got maybe 15 mpg ? And in 1959 a dollars worth of gas really would go about 90 miles. But in '59, gas was .25 gal (gas war days) in central CA.
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