My fz6r with 400+ miles was not downshifting, well from time to time, all the way to first when done in a rapid motion, like when stopping at a light. I would have to kind of "double clutch" to get it in first gear. Sometime it actually felt that I really needed to step -or hit- hard the gear lever for it to actually go to first gear. No problems when accelerating from stopped.
So I took it in for the 600miles maintenance at the dealership and told them about the situation. 35mins later they tell me they are done doing the whole service and that the clutch was slipping a little. Well I take it home and now the clutch lever is harder than what it was and the friction zone is really "short" and "high", meaning that I just have to hold it in a little to get to the friction zone when before it was about midway from the whole "clutch run". It has been a week since that service and I was waiting, hoping, that maybe it just needed time to adjust, but yesterday first thing in the morning (about 1 minute running) I try to get to first gear and it wouldn't until I double clutched it. Later that day, from a cold star in neutral and the clutch all the way in, I got a gear grounding sound after a normal tap of the gear lever.
Obviously I have not taken it back to the dealership, I want to get first some info to be better prepared to get it fixed or understand that everything is fine and maybe I just need to allow the bike to "settle".
This is my first bike, thus the use of quotations. I don't really know anything about bikes other than an average knowledge of how engines and gears work; any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you.
So I took it in for the 600miles maintenance at the dealership and told them about the situation. 35mins later they tell me they are done doing the whole service and that the clutch was slipping a little. Well I take it home and now the clutch lever is harder than what it was and the friction zone is really "short" and "high", meaning that I just have to hold it in a little to get to the friction zone when before it was about midway from the whole "clutch run". It has been a week since that service and I was waiting, hoping, that maybe it just needed time to adjust, but yesterday first thing in the morning (about 1 minute running) I try to get to first gear and it wouldn't until I double clutched it. Later that day, from a cold star in neutral and the clutch all the way in, I got a gear grounding sound after a normal tap of the gear lever.
Obviously I have not taken it back to the dealership, I want to get first some info to be better prepared to get it fixed or understand that everything is fine and maybe I just need to allow the bike to "settle".
This is my first bike, thus the use of quotations. I don't really know anything about bikes other than an average knowledge of how engines and gears work; any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Then its just a matter of dropping to 1st and going...some will say you should hold the clutch and stay in 1st at a light in case of an emergancy get away...thats your call.