Quastion on gear indicator

[PaRay]

Were you using motorcycle specific Mobil 1 or regular car Mobil 1. Though the viscosities from 10W-40 and higher aren't supposed to contain the troublesome friction modifiers, I still don't trust car oil.

Motorcycle. Mobile 1 4T. I don't understand why this oil would have caused the problem. I'll have to see how it does on tomorrow's ride to be convinced.

 

[markbxr400]

Probably normal, although if it seems dramatically different from other bikes you've owned, then this is odd as it appears more/less the same to me. If the other bikes you've owned have had cable clutches rather than hydraulic, that's probably the reason as a hydraulic clutch lever tends not to have much (if any) "free play" like a cable clutch lever.

The actual displacement distance of the lever to the point the clutch disengages is not the key thing - it's whether it starts disengaging as you start to apply lever pressure. It's normal for a clutch to start slipping right at the point where you're starting to notice that you're putting non-trivial pressure on the lever - they're calibrated this way to have the lightest clutch pull that still has enough spring pressure for full engagement with no pressure on the lever.

- Mark

Thanks for the reply. Many of my bikes (eg, Victory cruisers, etc) had cable clutches with a lot more freeplay, but others also had hydraulic (KTM's, Honda Cruisers and ST1300, etc).

I'm not noticing any slippage, just seemed very little pull needed before disengaging. Sounds like it's normal on the ST.

Thanks again.