- Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:03 am
#34754
Norm: Obviously theory and practical are not equal, I have left home with a minute amount of free play at the handlebar lever, after an hour`s ride in the mid-day heat, getting near home, in stop-start traffic, the free-play gradually increased to half an inch, where I was having trouble changing gears, to such a gap, that the bike was not changing down or going into neutral, creeping forward at the lights, having to ride the rest of the way in the gear it was stuck in, switching off the engine as I rode into the carport before collecting the clothes line at the far end. By then there was nearly an inch of free play at the lever. When it cooled down the slack was gone back to where it was when I left home. A silicon nitrate ceramic 1/4" ball has cured that. The adjustment doesn`t alter no matter how hot it gets. Most riders do not take any notice of the slack developing at the clutch lever on a hot day. Watch it and learn.