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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #15 - 09/18/13 at 22:31:54 I bypassed the clutch switch on an old chevy pikkup. Came in handy,, flooded it out in a hard rain,, stuck it in first & walked it out with the starter.
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wordet11 Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Athens, Ohio	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #16 - 01/11/17 at 05:33:17 Has anyone verified that this mod works? Would like to be sure before I go ahead and do it.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #17 - 01/11/17 at 10:20:55 If you just wanna not hafta pull the clutch you can unplug the wire to the switch and short the wires. If that's too tacky looking, trace the wires and jumper them wherever suits you. You're just Telling the bike that the clutch lever is pulled in. Won't affect the sidestand interlock.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5028 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #18 - 01/11/17 at 12:21:57 Did it ! No issues !
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #19 - 01/11/17 at 13:49:27 Good deal..
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Reply #20 - 01/11/17 at 15:41:29

To me seeing all the safety fetchers that are in the newer bikes is interesting.
The 1989 SL 400 has non, the side stand only has a light (you can ride with it still down), and the bike will start with or without the clutch lever being pulled (weather in gear or not)
it's not fun then it is, I'm just happy I managed to catch it before it doped

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #21 - 01/11/17 at 18:29:31 A friend of mine rides with a guy who crashed with the kick stand down on his HD. I guess he wasn't paying attention!
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wordet11 Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Athens, Ohio	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #22 - 01/11/17 at 18:31:27 Thanks fellas!
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sidecar mad YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2 New Zealand Gender:	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #23 - 02/24/17 at 15:17:59 Hi there, a new guy here! I've shorted out the clutch switch on my and my wifes 650. Had trouble with the switch on one of them so just bypassed it. Both our bikes have side cars fitted, so when you're starting them we are usually on them. In gear or not it now makes no difference.
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Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral
Reply #24 - 02/24/17 at 20:28:06

Stand next to your bike ,kickstand down,grab the bars and pull up on the right grip. the front tire and kickstand remain grounded,but the back tire is jacked up in the air. If this happens as your taking off and making a left turn, out of say your driveway and the kickstand decides not to fold back you and the bike are going down. I'd think bypassing the clutch switch to be OK but I wouldn't bypass the kickstand switch because when you tried to put the bike in gear the motor would die , and thus avoid something that might ruin the start of a perfectly nice day.

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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 5836 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #25 - 02/25/17 at 00:35:50 why do this mod what's the benefit?
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Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral
Reply #26 - 02/25/17 at 03:07:26

thumperclone wrote on 02/25/17 at 00:35:50:

why do this mod
what's the benefit?

The only real benefit that I see, is you avoid a switch that has the potential to go bad....most often those things go bad at the worst possible time. It can be relatively easy to troubleshoot those things in your garage - really difficult on some dark back road in the rain. It is not all that uncommon that we help troubleshoot a safety switch issue for a new forum member.

I started riding around 50 years ago. The drill was to get on the bike, grab the handlebars and pull the bike upright, pull the kickstand up, turn the petcock on, turn on the key and look at the neutral light or roll it front/back to check for neutral on the dirt bikes, then kick start the bike (I didn't pull in the clutch lever as some motorcycles I rode cannot be kick started with the clutch in (early Honda, Ossa,CZ). After all that time it has become ingrained into my muscle memory - but I now have modified that routine to include pulling in the clutch lever and hitting the electric starter button as none of my bikes have a kickstarter anymore.

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buster6315 Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 353	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #27 - 02/25/17 at 07:19:17 If'n you can't learn the drill, perhaps you should not even swing a leg over a motorcycle.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: "No clutch required to start in neutral" mod Reply #28 - 02/25/17 at 18:23:45 The kickstand goes up before I do anything else! I've seen too many people hurt themselves! I like the safety switches. They keep me from hurting myself!
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