G'day all, I don't know if its just my bad gear changing, but when I go from 1st to second I sometimes struggle to find second gear and end up into neutral. Other times its fine, has anyone come across this or is it just my bad gear changing?
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Posts: 15 (30-Jun-09 8:15 PM) |
Stephen
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Posts: 17 (30-Jun-09 8:22 PM) |
Hi Stephen,
The drive train is a bit tight for 5000Ks or so, I had the same problem when I first got mine, what I did was lower the gear lever 5mm or so by cracking the 10mm nuts on the adjuster. |
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Posts: 16 (30-Jun-09 8:34 PM) |
Hi Nev, Thanks for the info, its caught me a couple of times taking off at the lights. Very scary to say the least, I will try what you suggested and lower the
gear lever. The bike has just ticked over 5000ks; I love the bike and always looking forward to the next ride.
Stephen
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Posts: 5152 (30-Jun-09 8:54 PM) FarRider |
Make sure you release the pressure on the lever between changes.
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Posts: 18 (30-Jun-09 9:01 PM) |
No worries thanks Davo
Stephen
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Posts: 5154 (30-Jun-09 9:06 PM) FarRider |
I only mention it as I had that problem at the start, specially when doing fast changes. You need to make sure the foot lever returns to rest after the chahge.
I had a tendency to keep a little pressure on it, it won't (or I can't) flat shift it.
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stephen |
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Posts: 19 (30-Jun-09 9:19 PM) |
When you say for the foot lever returning to rest, this is coming up the gears from first?
Stephen
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Aussiedav |
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Posts: 5155 ( 1-Jul-09 4:40 PM) FarRider |
On any change, just remove the pressure your foot may have on the lever then hit it again to upshift. I don't use the clutch to upshift most of the time so
I had been upshifting too fast while still having a slight pressure under the lever from my boot.
If that makes sense |
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kwaka |
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Posts: 175 ( 1-Jul-09 5:21 PM) |
Aussiedav wrote:Don't be too timid in changing up and down, I've found you need to be positive/forceful with the change particularily on the up shift. If you have time, check the display to see if the gear position is shown, if it's in a false neutral the display will show blank. I still manage to find the odd false neutral even after nearly 32,000kms. It's a bike thing IMHO, haven't ridden a bike that doesn't have a false neutral somewhere. 
Um...flat shifting, I can both ways, up and down. I especially like doing it on the upshift. 
ThumpinKwaka v2.0 = 1400GTR
You know your having fun when your on two wheels. FarRider #43 GTR-AUS #241 |
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stephen |
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Posts: 21 ( 1-Jul-09 6:21 PM) |
Thanks for the advise
Stephen
1400GTR 2008 #276 
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Posts: 58 (10-Jul-09 9:43 AM) |
I found that when I changed to Shell Ultra fully synthetic oil the changes became just so smooth....... snick, snick, snick! Beautiful!
Rob |
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