Ok last night I was riding and towards the end I was having a hard time shifting into neutral, then it was taking a tone of effort to get the bike into and out of gear while at a stop.
Once I would shut the bike and motor down, it would shift into first and neutral smoothly.
Could the clutch be worn to the point its not holding enough anymore? I have been riding with a passenger latly and some of the hills around here are steep start offs so you feather and run out the clutch a bit more to start.
I have about 17,300 miles on this clutch and it is the original. I don't go to the strip with the bike, but last night I was lanuching at a higher RPM messing around with a buddy and I;m wondering if that just finally killed the clutch that might have been on its last leg to begin with.
I was panicing and thought it was a shift for or somthing but I don't think it would shift fine when the motor is off. I'm only having issues when there is power to the motor.
I also noticed that after I was launching that the bike would sort of lunge forward a bit when getting it into first and stalled a couple times (which again was very hard to even do with the bike running).
I'm figuing the clutch is either worn , or I glazed over a couple plates.
Any suggestions would be appriciated. I have never experienced a worn clutch in any of my vehicles so I don't exactly know the signs of a bad clutch.
Good news is if that is all it is, I have new steels, fibers, and springs sitting on my shelf ready to go in. Bought them over winter and never put them in.
Once I would shut the bike and motor down, it would shift into first and neutral smoothly.
Could the clutch be worn to the point its not holding enough anymore? I have been riding with a passenger latly and some of the hills around here are steep start offs so you feather and run out the clutch a bit more to start.
I have about 17,300 miles on this clutch and it is the original. I don't go to the strip with the bike, but last night I was lanuching at a higher RPM messing around with a buddy and I;m wondering if that just finally killed the clutch that might have been on its last leg to begin with.
I was panicing and thought it was a shift for or somthing but I don't think it would shift fine when the motor is off. I'm only having issues when there is power to the motor.
I also noticed that after I was launching that the bike would sort of lunge forward a bit when getting it into first and stalled a couple times (which again was very hard to even do with the bike running).
I'm figuing the clutch is either worn , or I glazed over a couple plates.
Any suggestions would be appriciated. I have never experienced a worn clutch in any of my vehicles so I don't exactly know the signs of a bad clutch.
Good news is if that is all it is, I have new steels, fibers, and springs sitting on my shelf ready to go in. Bought them over winter and never put them in.
