Today I was out riding and it was rather windy. Suddenly my bike just dies while in 5th gear, I pulled in the clutch and tried to fire it back up, after about three tries it fired and I rode a while longer, but then it seemed almost every few feet it felt like it slipped a gear and I would have to pull in clutch, rev it up a little bit and drop to the next lower gear and I was fine. Once I got out of the worst of the wind the bike acted fine as usual before these little hickups.

Now, I was riding in an approximately 50 mph head wind doing 50mph on the speedo. I'm thinking I may have just been overtaxing the engine and tranny and it died and was slipping gears because of that. Because like I said, after I got out of the worst of the wind it acted fine.

What do ya'll think?

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:



Nope, it was a straight and semi level grade.

I mean....Does your clutch slip?

The mods on my bike are K&N Drop in Filter, 152.5 Main, 55 Pilot, with Jardine slip-on.

Clutch does not slip.

Like I said, after I got out of the worst of the wind the bike acted fine.

Yonuh Adisi FSO wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:



You answered my would be question...I have seen bikes with pod filters (which you don't have) go lean during gusty cross winds.  Doesn't sound like your issue.