Just done a 4 day trip to Chiangmai bike week on the S4 , about 2100Km round trip, about 150km from home the clutch stops working, the outer cover is red hot all the paint has melted, opened it up and dismantled clutch at roadside , problem was clutch centre nut came loose . bodged it tight at roadside , left the cover off and made it home cluth works OK , had to stop once more to retighten as did not have access to big sockets,it was late night.
Home now and will re torque the big clutch centre nut ,
Will have to buy some bling cluth parts , now doh!
should I put loctite on the centre nut when I tighten it ?
I am now a convert to the open clutch it does sound nicer with the cover off , like the jingle bells sound.
The bike ran awsomely 1000km in 10 hours to get home including bad roads , dodging elephants , drunken Thais etc.
The bike show was superb. great Parties great food , good hotels 4star but only $40 per night . About 2000 bikes 35% Harleys 20% BMW 40% Japs 10 Ducatis 4 Triumphs,1 Motoguzzi and a few others
1 guy rode a 999 from Singapore round trip 4000km.
Regards Jerry
Home now and will re torque the big clutch centre nut ,
Will have to buy some bling cluth parts , now doh!
should I put loctite on the centre nut when I tighten it ?
I am now a convert to the open clutch it does sound nicer with the cover off , like the jingle bells sound.
The bike ran awsomely 1000km in 10 hours to get home including bad roads , dodging elephants , drunken Thais etc.
The bike show was superb. great Parties great food , good hotels 4star but only $40 per night . About 2000 bikes 35% Harleys 20% BMW 40% Japs 10 Ducatis 4 Triumphs,1 Motoguzzi and a few others
1 guy rode a 999 from Singapore round trip 4000km.
Regards Jerry