Well.....you fussed around with the battery and changed something.  If your clutch cable got hot....somehow it was getting electrical power run through it.

You are the only one that is there to look at the bike and trouble shoot it......find out where you got an electrical wire goofed up in the battery swap.

check under the tank to see if the cable and some wires have been smashed together.

Look under the clutch lever to make sure you haven't somehow pinched the wires to the clutch sensor switch in the closing area of the lever. My feeling is that the power is hitting the cable sheath somewhere farther down and under the tank seems like a great place for something like that to be hidden.

If you're pulling enough juice to turn the cable into a heater, I wonder why a fuse hasn't blown.

Make sure your ground connection is good.  Electricity's only purpose is to find a way to ground. It runs things by moving through them on its way to ground. It's on the cable either due to a short or a bad ground somewhere and the cable is a better ground than the ground is.

Regardless of what caused the problem, this is the Kind of thinking that digs up answers..


Make sure your ground connection is good.  Electricity's only purpose is to find a way to ground. It runs things by moving through them on its way to ground. It's on the cable either due to a short or a bad ground somewhere and the cable is a better ground than the ground is.