Topic: pop goes the honda

[grumpy]

So ya know how hitting the kill switch while rolling causes unburned fuel to accumulate in the cylinders and how it makes a nice POP when you turn the power back on? 
Just how bad is that for the bike? 



I had a friend who loved to do this trick w/ his 72 Cutlass. Made a huge bang & launched flames and muffler packing all over the place...

[BobbyR]

It does nothing to the engine. How much you wanna spend on a new exhaust system.

[Hush]

How many Highway Patrol Officers do you want to surround you with drawn Glocks?

[754]

I used to do that a lot..

 My best was when I saw a cat in a field mousing.. I let-er-rip..

 That cat went about a yard straight up    , twisted a 180 in the air, and hit the ground running.. ... 2nd funniest thing I saw a cat do...

 Eventually one night I blew a head gasket, side out of #1 or #4.. under  hard throttle flame came out the side..    , but at low throttle it was OK, so I limped it home.. .. sometime after that I played with the kill switch, a lot less..

 Cant say it did, or did not hurt the head gasket..

 Ever crack the points while tuning, and have it backfire.. I did in a carport..   .. it sure got my attention..

[JZEROE]

I used to live next door to the Hells Angles, and one of the guys told me about doing that at a party. They do it all the time (because their bikes are not loud enough). I did it once, and my starter button assembly shattered when I tried to fire back up. I figured it was karma, and haven't done it since.

[dave500]

in the 80s i drove a small j series bedford truck ,it had a chev 307 and t400 shoe horned in,we did it all the time,it had a single side exhaust,,the funniest one was a girl walking her dog,it was taking a dump and kaboom!!!the dog nearly pulled the girl over with a half passed dump swinging behind it!!man we laughed for days!!i did it to a valiant and left the ignition off for too long and burst the muffler seam,that was a 265 hemi with a reverse flow.

[Nikkisixx]

When I lived in Chattanooga 20 years ago, my recreational cruises involved a downhill tunnel and a 750 with not much of a baffle.  On more than one occasion I would ride through the tunnel doing about 50, hit the kill switch, crack the throttle wfo, shove the center stand down onto the asphalt (oh the sparks..), then fire it back up.  I don't know why my buddies never rode through that tunnel behind me more than once 

Oh, and yes it can be bad for the exhaust system 

[grumpy]

...ride through the tunnel doing about 50, hit the kill switch, crack the throttle wfo, shove the center stand down onto the asphalt (oh the sparks..), then fire it back up.

That's awesome.  

[fmctm1sw]

I had a friend who loved to do this trick w/ his 72 Cutlass. Made a huge bang & launched flames and muffler packing all over the place...

My Dad used to do that in tunnels...

[cb350twin]

I did it once, and my starter button assembly shattered when I tried to fire back up.

Why would the starter button shatter? 

[grumpy]

Why would the starter button shatter? 

karma

[Hush]

Had a mate who owned a Yamaha RD350, got bored one night so he removed the exhaust pipes completely and rode down the street full blast, flames down both sides of his bike, looked flippin awesome....he's dead now...R.I.P. Kevin.