Howdy gang,
The only time I stopped all day during my first ride of the year in Yellowstone, I stopped to admire Lamar Valley for 1/2 hour or so. I got certified this year to teach the MTC class to beginning motorcyclists in California and I'm trying to practice what I "preach" (teach), and we teach students to turn the motorcycle off with the cutoff switch first and then turn the key off. Well, I turned it off with the switch but I got distracted by a car driving on the shoulder towards me and forgot to turn off the key. If you look closely in this picture, you don't see any headlights and unknown to me, the key is still on at this point.
As I geared up to go, all cars left the pull out. Then I discovered the dead battery. Not a flicker. The next thing I remembered was switching my jumper cables for the ST to my KTM for yesterday's ride, and NOT switching them back for this ride. Fortunately, I had the foresight to park at the top of a hill. Got it coasting faster than I could run, switched on the key, shifted to third, and dumped the clutch. The ST sputtered to life and i rode for close to an hour before stopping again. Whew!!!
In a few forums, I've read one knock against fuel injected bikes vs carb'ed bikes is that you can bump start the fuel injected ones. I'm glad to report that is BS
The only time I stopped all day during my first ride of the year in Yellowstone, I stopped to admire Lamar Valley for 1/2 hour or so. I got certified this year to teach the MTC class to beginning motorcyclists in California and I'm trying to practice what I "preach" (teach), and we teach students to turn the motorcycle off with the cutoff switch first and then turn the key off. Well, I turned it off with the switch but I got distracted by a car driving on the shoulder towards me and forgot to turn off the key. If you look closely in this picture, you don't see any headlights and unknown to me, the key is still on at this point.
As I geared up to go, all cars left the pull out. Then I discovered the dead battery. Not a flicker. The next thing I remembered was switching my jumper cables for the ST to my KTM for yesterday's ride, and NOT switching them back for this ride. Fortunately, I had the foresight to park at the top of a hill. Got it coasting faster than I could run, switched on the key, shifted to third, and dumped the clutch. The ST sputtered to life and i rode for close to an hour before stopping again. Whew!!!
In a few forums, I've read one knock against fuel injected bikes vs carb'ed bikes is that you can bump start the fuel injected ones. I'm glad to report that is BS