Well this is a really funny story and it's no fun unless it's shared, so here goes.
For a long time my motor bike was not running. Last Friday my buddy and I were working on his motor bike and we went by my house in his truck and got mine. We spent the afternoon getting his motor bike running and I got mine ready to run also. His fired up with no problems and I had finally finished getting mine ready.
I test rode it with no gas to make sure the chain wasn't going to jump the sprocket and it was perfect. Everything was perfect so we put a little gas in and a tad extra oil since it had been so long since the motor ran. We both tried to start my bike several times over about an hour and a half or so, with no joy at all.
We decided to check for a spark. No spark so I unscrew the plug wire for the CDI and notice the end could use a little work and show my buddy. He said "Yea clip the end and fix that better". As I was screwing the now fixed plug wire back into the CDI my buddy was looking at my wiring. His thoughts as he related to me later were, "OK his wires are right since they are still shrink wrapped" "o wow, he's got a kill switch". Then he asks me "Shouldn't we turn the kill switch on?"
Yep you got it, we had tried for over an hour to start the bike with the kill switch in the off position. I spent the next 5 minutes laughing at myself, then turned the switch on and the bike fired right up no problems at all.
For a long time my motor bike was not running. Last Friday my buddy and I were working on his motor bike and we went by my house in his truck and got mine. We spent the afternoon getting his motor bike running and I got mine ready to run also. His fired up with no problems and I had finally finished getting mine ready.
I test rode it with no gas to make sure the chain wasn't going to jump the sprocket and it was perfect. Everything was perfect so we put a little gas in and a tad extra oil since it had been so long since the motor ran. We both tried to start my bike several times over about an hour and a half or so, with no joy at all.
We decided to check for a spark. No spark so I unscrew the plug wire for the CDI and notice the end could use a little work and show my buddy. He said "Yea clip the end and fix that better". As I was screwing the now fixed plug wire back into the CDI my buddy was looking at my wiring. His thoughts as he related to me later were, "OK his wires are right since they are still shrink wrapped" "o wow, he's got a kill switch". Then he asks me "Shouldn't we turn the kill switch on?"
Yep you got it, we had tried for over an hour to start the bike with the kill switch in the off position. I spent the next 5 minutes laughing at myself, then turned the switch on and the bike fired right up no problems at all.
