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Message started by gayla28 on 05/14/09 at 12:45:13

Title: help clutch adjustment?
Post by gayla28 on 05/14/09 at 12:45:13

i put on a set of buck horn bars instead of my drag bars now the bike dies when i try to put it into gear. is this just a cutch cabe adjustment or more?
thank you

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by youzguyz on 05/14/09 at 13:29:48

If your kickstand is down (or "thinks" it is), it will die if you put it into gear.

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 05/14/09 at 13:48:54

Check kickstand spring, it could be weakening letting the stand hang down enough to activate the safety switch.

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by verslagen1 on 05/14/09 at 13:55:07

Let me see, you changed the bars and now it dies. when you put in gear.

Clutch interlock is only good for starting.
Same with neutral.
That leaves kickstand, it's only active in gear.

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by gayla28 on 05/14/09 at 14:18:52

duh!!!!!!!!!!!!! my bf is banging his head on the driveway now LOL
he said thanks and he will accept the virtual slap in the back of the head for being dumb
thank you everyone

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 05/14/09 at 14:21:09

I've had a few http://annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/images/smilies/banghead.gif moments in the past myself.

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by Skid Mark on 05/14/09 at 15:34:59

Yup!!! The kill switch has gotten me a couple of times. You'd think a person would catch on after the 1st time :P

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by photojoe on 05/14/09 at 15:43:19

We all get a turn, but what a relief it is finding out it's something a simple as forgetting something simple. Beats the many alternatives of mechanical problems that could go wrong. I'll take a virtual slap on the head over a repair that'll cost me $$ anytime.

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by Skid Mark on 05/14/09 at 18:31:04

Amen to that Photojoe

Title: Re: help clutch adjustment?
Post by John_D on 05/15/09 at 02:18:20

4640584D401319210 wrote:

duh!!!!!!!!!!!!! my bf is banging his head on the driveway now LOL
he said thanks and he will accept the virtual slap in the back of the head for being dumb
thank you everyone

Tell him not to feel bad, most of us have probably done either the same thing, or something similar! :D
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