Son Doobie
New Member
My clutch is so hard to pull, it would make a gorilla cry. I had a dangerous test ride yesterday, my hand went numb and gave out while doing a u-turn and I almost bumped into a fence. My fingers are bruised from it too. I'm no whimp, I've dealt with hard clutches and brakes on dirt bikes and ATVs before. This is different, it's almost impossible to pull... most of my friends couldn't pull it a centimeter. The clutch arm is where it wants to be and the motor runs great, but slow speed operation just feels sketchy right now. I plan on doing a lot of peddling too so I need to make it easy to lock. When the engine is on it turns the wheel even without touching the throttle. Do the Chinese killswitches kill the engine? I killswitch when I get off of the bike. I know I need to take the cable out of the jacket and apply the lube that the slopeheads forgot. Somebody on here said to route the cable without the small spring as well. I was wondering if there are any products out there that help with slow speed operation and peddling. I've seen the autoclutch belt systems but I think those are for women and they look stupid. Safety is very important to me as I am new to motored bikes and I live around a lot of busy roads with drunk rednecks and teenagers going 65 in a 35 all day and all night. I travel around town using grass, sidewalks, neighborhoods, and forest paths when I'm on foot because Clermont County is very anti-pedestrian.