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05 Clutch/Transmission Skip at Speed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ari Rankum" data-source="post: 103150" data-attributes="member: 1861"><p>Yeah, I did have second thoughts. I was sure I had done nothing wrong. It actually took me a little while to stop being annoyed at the initial questions: is this where the shifter has always been, because people that drag race these bikes move the shift lever, you know? Do you powershift, you know, change gears without using the clutch? Maybe you missed a shift - you know, it only takes one missed shift to frag your transmission the way yours is fragged. Etc.</p><p></p><p>I got the same service bulletin. I also got the warning that Yamaha would only do the repairs for free, once. After that, it was on me.</p><p></p><p>In the end, at least until I put my '05 through that deer, I had never heard of this happening to anyone else on an FJR. So it seemed unlikely it was a design or manufacturing flaw that affected a lot of bikes. Of course, you have to wonder what causes a service bulletin to be issued if you're the only one with a problem. It could have been me. It could have been design. It could have been manufacturing. I'll never know, as Yamaha never revealed to me the results of their analysis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ari Rankum, post: 103150, member: 1861"] Yeah, I did have second thoughts. I was sure I had done nothing wrong. It actually took me a little while to stop being annoyed at the initial questions: is this where the shifter has always been, because people that drag race these bikes move the shift lever, you know? Do you powershift, you know, change gears without using the clutch? Maybe you missed a shift - you know, it only takes one missed shift to frag your transmission the way yours is fragged. Etc. I got the same service bulletin. I also got the warning that Yamaha would only do the repairs for free, once. After that, it was on me. In the end, at least until I put my '05 through that deer, I had never heard of this happening to anyone else on an FJR. So it seemed unlikely it was a design or manufacturing flaw that affected a lot of bikes. Of course, you have to wonder what causes a service bulletin to be issued if you're the only one with a problem. It could have been me. It could have been design. It could have been manufacturing. I'll never know, as Yamaha never revealed to me the results of their analysis. [/QUOTE]
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