clutch when starting

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Baph

If I go to france, I'll be carrying enough tools & wire to solve electrical faults on the bike (mostly).

Personally, I'd rather be forced to remember the clutch switch. If it develops a fault, I can strip it on the spot & temporarily bodge it.

Course. But it's easier not to have it there to go wrong, preventative medicine- with electrics, the hard part isn't fault fixing, it's fault finding.

[Mark_h]

Looped out my one and it made it much easier to start when carrying a helmet etc, but then my bit of loop wire fell out and it took me ages to work out why it wouldn't turn over. Stuck the connector back on and back to pulling in the clutch.

I check mine is in proper neutral before I turn off, so my only risk is someone knocking my lever into a false neutral between me getting off and getting back on next ride. Think that's a chance I'd take.

Also even if you retain the clutch interlock switch you'd have to have pretty quick reactions to pull the clutch back in fast enough to prevent the bike falling off it's stand if you had a false neutral anyway.

And can't be that bad a problem as I think it's only Suzuki who use a clutch interlock switch others depend on side-stand and neutral sensors. But then again, what do I know ?