My bike no longer starts with a gear engaged. (Obviously clutch in no side stand.) Anyone else had this or have any thoughts?
Identical feeling to trying to start with kill switch on.
I did have the clutch lever and gear lever replaced by BMW (they were knocked out of place) and it has been since then. Any ideas gratefully received!
Almost certainly the clutch switch, maybe too much slack in the cable or defective switch. Is the clutch lever OEM, if not it may need to be modified to engage the switch.
Yes always starts in neutral and no dying out with gear changes. No problems at all except if I happen to stall in 1st as our 310’s can occasionally do I can’t restart imm clutch in. Testing further at no time can I start with a gear selected. Only ever in neutral. Same behaviour as if the kill switch us on. Ie nothing.
Thank you for all your suggestions so far!
I know what you mean, on my very first ride on this bike I stalled across a line of oncoming cars, was very grateful to find the bike would start in gear with clutch in so I could skedaddle out of there.
Still sounds to me like a clutch switch, please let us know what you find. Cheers.
Tick, a wire problem at the prop stand put my engine light on, fixed now but as bm`s didn't put a bit of silicon on the socket to try make it water proof, I did.
Well. Strange but true. Those clever BMW chaps worked out it was the heated grip that was causing the problem. Something to do with the cable. So cable moved and all working like a dream now 🙂
You should definitely get that sorted out under warrantee, not good if you stall in the middle of traffic and need to get out of the way quickly. It sounds like your clutch switch or connection is defective.
Maybe, it's a problem of the switch in the clutch lever holder, seems to be a microswitch.
I had a similar problem with my last bike, a Honda CBF 600SA PC 43, 3 years old, after short time the brake lights didn't work when pulling the hand lever. This problem is known as a problem with the build-in-microswitch, the part, Honda uses, isn't very durable.
I bought a new one at ebay (no OEM) and the problem was solved.
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