03-30-2020, 06:21 PM | #1 |
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Method to bypass having to hold the brakes to start
The feature that makes you hold the hand brake or foot brake to start bugs me. I got used to it for electric starting by using the foot brake, but if you try to kick start it is a cluster-F. For me anyway.
Trying to hold the hand brake and open the throttle just a tad (which I need to do to kick start) is difficult. I accidentally opened the throttle too much and the engine revved a bit high when the bike started. So, I bought a momentary switch (same type as a starter switch or kill switch) to mount on the clutch side of the handlebar that I will wire in parallel with the hand brake switch. When I go to start I will press that button simulating the brake being applied, be able to modulate the throttle easily, and kick away. I tried to track down a relay that is activated by either of the brakes, but couldn't find one (this is on an Orion RXB150). I was going to jump out the contacts if I had found it allowing the starter to crank without the relay being made by the brake(s). This switch method accomplishes the same thing.
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03-30-2020, 08:13 PM | #3 |
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Disconnect the sensor and hardwire the two together. Usually side stand or clutch have the sensors... and usually everyone disables them, although the clutch one has saved me a paint job before now.
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A clutch or side stand switch do not power anything, they just close a circuit via a normally open contact that is made when the clutch is pulled in or the stand is put up. So wire-nutting the two wires simulates the switch being made. Both comments do make me think that maybe I can find what I am looking for by tracing the coil wires from the starter relay back to where one of them might be interrupted by the brakes being activated. I went from the other direction before (from the brake handle and pedal toward the starter relay).
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