Hot wiring a GS

[Mat]

red and orange go together and grey and tan go together
red and orange are starter and headlight and grey and tan are everything else

[dgyver]

This is scary how easy it was to bypass the key switch. But then my race bike is even easier to start. No key, just flip a switch to turn it on.

If I had a street GS, I would put a hidden kill switch to disable the bike. Maybe so it would disable the signal from the ignition rotor pickup.
No spark = no run.

[jtenright]

yea very easy done it on a old bike I had and a car I was given, that had no door handles or ingition key
conect a few wires and touch them to the starter wire, after its started remove istarter wire from the others

[dgyver]

I had to hot wire a B2000 pickup once and then right after we got started one of the guys showed up with the keys.

Interesting that we had a flat bed truck get stolen from work last night. Crashed the fence. Did not steal anything else that we could tell but a few 20 year old batteries from some antique cars.

[Rema1000]

turn wheel to the left all the way, insert key and turn to left

On my bike, I often have to push the steering a little bit left for the key to go to Lock.  If there is resistance to turning the key to Lock, try wiggling the steering a  little while you turn the key.