Be sure your kill switch works

wheelbender6 · Post by **wheelbender6** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 4:03 pm

Apologies if this has already been posted.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e1_1418736765

jrsjr · Post by **jrsjr** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 6:56 pm

Wow, with friends like that... Geez, that's just a great way to get somebody hurt or killed. You gotta hope that video does not make the rounds because somebody somewhere will try it. All I can say is, that video is the short answer to the question, "Why do you always keep the brakes on at a stoplight?"

BuddyRaton · Post by **BuddyRaton** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:04 pm

I had something similar happen. Someone in the neighborhood got a new scooter. I was on my Burgman 650 and just talking while sitting there. Another neighbor...now named asshat...looked at my bike and twisted the throttle.

Luckily I had the parking brake on. I asked him what the f*** he thought he was doing. He was surprised and then sheepish when I asked him why he was trying to f****ng kill me. Really he had no clue what he was doing but really...I didn't care.

az_slynch · Post by **az_slynch** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:55 pm

BuddyRaton wrote:I had something similar happen. Someone in the neighborhood got a new scooter. I was on my Burgman 650 and just talking while sitting there. Another neighbor...now named asshat...looked at my bike and twisted the throttle.

Luckily I had the parking brake on. I asked him what the f*** he thought he was doing. He was surprised and then sheepish when I asked him why he was trying to f****ng kill me. Really he had no clue what he was doing but really...I didn't care.

I'd bet a dollar that they have no idea how a CVT works of that you had one. They probably just thought they were gonna rev the engine.

Plus one in the column for shifties. I can goose my P200 in neutral and get a melodic rotary-pad zzzziiiiiinnnnngggg! On my Riva when you goose it, it goes rattatatatatatatRATAT! Not guite as melodic.

Neurotic-Hapi-Snak · Post by **Neurotic-Hapi-Snak** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:56 pm

Silly twist'n'go.

BuddyRaton · Post by **BuddyRaton** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:12 pm

No....he didn't have a clue what he was doing. Still...it would be like someone climbing into my SSR and reving it cause they wanted to see what a LS2 sounded like.

The worst thing was that the other scooter was a total bodge job. I was even behaving and keeping my mouth shut!