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Keep losing neutral?
Major Stare - 1/9/09 at 10:31 PM

R1 is running fine.... appart from buggered diff.

Noticed a couple of times when out and in the garage tonight... i cant get neutral sometimes?

Lever moves back and forth but i cant find neutral

Any idea's?

coozer - 1/9/09 at 10:38 PM

Gentle touch or slight lever movement.

Should have bought a Kawasaki

Moorron - 1/9/09 at 10:58 PM

my zx12 is really hard to get neutral. my cbr was a lot easier with the same paddle system.

if i made it easy to get it, it would give too much movement for my liking so i put up with it.

ReMan - 2/9/09 at 06:06 AM

Normal.
As any gear, try getting it before you stop moving

daviep - 2/9/09 at 06:35 AM

Very common on a lot of bikes, often gets worse when they are hot.

Davie

givemethebighammer - 2/9/09 at 11:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
Normal.
As any gear, try getting it before you stop moving


As above

My Honda NC30 is hard to get into neutral if standing stationary. Trick is to blip the throttle to about 3000+ rpm and then it goes in easily.

dmac - 2/9/09 at 06:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by givemethebighammer

My Honda NC30 is hard to get into neutral if standing stationary. Trick is to blip the throttle to about 3000+ rpm and then it goes in easily.


As above, blip the throttle and slip it into neutral at the peak of the revs, works every time when you get the hang of it. It allows you to change with no pressure on the gears, drag from the clutch normally keeps everything in tension.

Duncan

Major Stare - 2/9/09 at 08:17 PM

Cheers guys.

Will give a go when back on the road..... see post on this section of the BEC forum