# How do you turn off your motorcycle?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-turn-off-your-motorcycle/620553
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-turn-off-your-motorcycle/620553 "2012-05-01T20:36:23Z")
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### Author: ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-turn-off-your-motorcycle/620553/21 "2012-05-02T20:49:42Z")

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I haven’t been riding in a while, but when I did, I almost always used the kill switch.

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### Author: ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-turn-off-your-motorcycle/620553/22 "2012-05-02T21:02:38Z")

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I blip the throttle-run the engine up to maximum revs/noise-several times-that’s to show the neighbors I like them. Picture Mad Max-when the gang of bikers follows the leader’s conductor-like direction.

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