Inlaw1
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Thought I"d post up here as I know there is some great knowledge on this board and if someone hasn't had this problem in the past on this bike, or another, someone with mechanical knowledge of motorcycle transmissions mght have an idea of what might be happening and why.
I ride the bike everyday to work, rain / shine / cold / hot, along with tearing up Hill Country roads most weekends. Been riding for years and haven't had a transmission problem on a bike since the original FJ's and the notorious Yamaha 2nd gear problems. I have a Erion 929 CBR with 47K on it and it's transmision works just fine, the point being I don't think I am abusive at all in transmissions.
I give the bike a warm up time to at least one bar, if not two, on the temp gauge. Enough to start to warm the motor, but of course the engine oil is along way from operating temp and this seems to affect this new problem. I've noticed lately, when the engine oil is not warmed up completely, when coming to a stop and downshifting through the gears, once I get to the point of going from second to first it doesn't want to go into first, the shift lever just pushes down freely.
It doesn't do it all the time, but is now happening more frequent. If it doesn't go into first, shifting up and then back down does no good. Letting the clutch out a little to get the gears to spin in order to mesh, does no good. Other times, when it does go into first I notice that instead of the lever not wanting to push down any further, it has what I can only describe as free play and you can continue to push the peddle down, with it springing back up. In typical operation, once into first you should not be able to push the shift lever down, it should have what I would describe a stop to it.
Yesterday, I had to take off in third gear because at one stop it wouldn't go down into second and no amount of coaxing at stop would get it to drop any further in the gear range.
Once the oil is up to operating temp, I've not noticed the problem but suspect here in time it will start to happen even more frequently, so far that's the history.
Anyway, long way to the question I know... anyone had this problem? Or anyone know what might be causing it? I'd like to have some kind of heads up when taking it to the dealership. Inevitably the local dealer will tell me they can't duplicate the problem, afterall, it's under warranty and it's a transmission problem they probably don't want to mess with.
I ride the bike everyday to work, rain / shine / cold / hot, along with tearing up Hill Country roads most weekends. Been riding for years and haven't had a transmission problem on a bike since the original FJ's and the notorious Yamaha 2nd gear problems. I have a Erion 929 CBR with 47K on it and it's transmision works just fine, the point being I don't think I am abusive at all in transmissions.
I give the bike a warm up time to at least one bar, if not two, on the temp gauge. Enough to start to warm the motor, but of course the engine oil is along way from operating temp and this seems to affect this new problem. I've noticed lately, when the engine oil is not warmed up completely, when coming to a stop and downshifting through the gears, once I get to the point of going from second to first it doesn't want to go into first, the shift lever just pushes down freely.
It doesn't do it all the time, but is now happening more frequent. If it doesn't go into first, shifting up and then back down does no good. Letting the clutch out a little to get the gears to spin in order to mesh, does no good. Other times, when it does go into first I notice that instead of the lever not wanting to push down any further, it has what I can only describe as free play and you can continue to push the peddle down, with it springing back up. In typical operation, once into first you should not be able to push the shift lever down, it should have what I would describe a stop to it.
Yesterday, I had to take off in third gear because at one stop it wouldn't go down into second and no amount of coaxing at stop would get it to drop any further in the gear range.
Once the oil is up to operating temp, I've not noticed the problem but suspect here in time it will start to happen even more frequently, so far that's the history.
Anyway, long way to the question I know... anyone had this problem? Or anyone know what might be causing it? I'd like to have some kind of heads up when taking it to the dealership. Inevitably the local dealer will tell me they can't duplicate the problem, afterall, it's under warranty and it's a transmission problem they probably don't want to mess with.