A bg clunk!
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A bg clunk!
Hey guys and gals! My 03
Sportster makes a good
clunk throwing it into first gear. Well, I should say louder than usual. I guess my question is what's a normal clunk and what's a louder than normal. The bike has less than 6000 miles. Thanks a bunch!
Sportster makes a good
clunk throwing it into first gear. Well, I should say louder than usual. I guess my question is what's a normal clunk and what's a louder than normal. The bike has less than 6000 miles. Thanks a bunch!
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I swear someone makes a post about this every week.
It depends on how and why you are going into first. If your at a stop with no brake it goes nice and easy. Apply brake and it goes harder. Downshifting to first depends on speed. Go from 5 it's easy. 10 it's harder, and so on. That's the best explanation I think I can give you without getting out a decibel meter to measure the sound haha.
In short don't worry about it, as long as it's going into first, let it 'clunk'
It depends on how and why you are going into first. If your at a stop with no brake it goes nice and easy. Apply brake and it goes harder. Downshifting to first depends on speed. Go from 5 it's easy. 10 it's harder, and so on. That's the best explanation I think I can give you without getting out a decibel meter to measure the sound haha.
In short don't worry about it, as long as it's going into first, let it 'clunk'
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I think every bike I've ever owned went clunk in the gears occasionally, it's normal as others have said
What's real fun is being on a Ducati going from 6th to 5th and hearing it go grrrrriiiiinnnnnndddd while the shifter ratchets up and down at illegal speeds
What's real fun is being on a Ducati going from 6th to 5th and hearing it go grrrrriiiiinnnnnndddd while the shifter ratchets up and down at illegal speeds
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