I often have to push my bike back as I sit astride into a parking slot at home and at work. Today, with clutch pulled in and bike in gear, I was doing it as I normally do when I noticed it seemed to not want to go....
I gave it a little more muscle thinking I might just be hung up on something at my rear tire, ground elevation. I heard a loud pop, didn't sound good  
I could feel some resistance still, sorta like the clutch was out kinda, but it was not. I put it in neutral, but it still had some sort of binding, or pressure on it, almost as if something was jammed in the spokes.....
I hopped off, looked, saw nothing  

Decided to give her a run. Fired her up, and gingerly gave it throttle, increasing it as I began to roll faster.....nothing.

Went faster, went into all gears, coasted in gear at a high rate of speed...... nothing. No gearbox noise, or clutch issues, nothing.

Rode her a few miles to get gas at 50 plus MPH, was thinking all along a lock up was possible, I dunno, but I paid a great deal of attention to my circumstance just in case it did  

Rode her 4 or so miles back, shut her off, put her in neutral, slid her backwards into her parking spot, nothing, good as always.....

Do I need be concerned, and what might it have been, just the gears doing a bit of stubbornness?

Thanks      

Option three,... you backed over a squirrel...

Better than a deer I reckon.......
If I find a dead squirrel, I will be sure to send his nuts to you  

if you roll over a tie wrap on it's side it makes a loud pop.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/31/14 at 04:31:40:



good point, no answer