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I suggest a piece of tape over your kill switch until you break that bad habit. I had no idea anybody used that switch for anything, ever.

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Go down to the auto zone or napa or whatever. Grab a bit of heavy wire. Maybe one red and one black. Connect them to the battery, wire nut them, tuck them under and there you go.


That produces problems of its own. First up you've got to get wire as heavy as starter cable or jumper lead, which won't "tuck" so well. Secondly it leaves a very heavy, un-fused and un-insulated connection to your battery's positive floating round, waiting for an accidental contact with the bike's frame (which is a direct, un-fused, un-insulated connection to the battery's negative). In layman's terms... *BOOM*. If you MUST find a solution to get round using the kill switch and not flattening the battery get one of those $10 headlight reminders from any autoshop and wire it to the ignition & the headlight. Using the kill switch will set off the beeper until you turn the bike off properly. I still strongly recommend the "KISS" principle though, and use one switch (the right one) to turn the bike off instead of two.

FYI there's a reason the kill switch doesn't turn off anything except the ignition, and it hearkens back to it's intended use as an emergency device. Going back to the "bike on your leg" scenario, you may want to kill the ignition so the back wheel doesn't chew through your pillion's leg etc, but assuming it's night time you don't want to turn off the lights while you lie on that darkened road waiting for some kind soul to lift your bike off you and take you to a doctor for reassembly.

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