Anyone having gear changing probs

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I have been having difficulty lately in selecting gears smoothly....
The bike would`nt change down correctly and I thought it was either the selector fork or a clutch problem, but I wasnt getting any clutch slippage or dragging?

I asked Bournemouth Kawasaki what their opinion was (difficult when they are 26 odd miles away and without actually seeing the bike) and the guy there said that he had a few complaints about this, especially on higher mileage bikes that are used all year round..... THE PROBLEM IS CRAP BUILDING UP IN THE SHAFT THAT HOLDS THE GEAR LEVER! If you take the left rearset off and remove the lever, coat it in a good smoothering of high quality grease and put it back together it resloves the problem. BINGO!

FIXED!

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thedzou said:

I have been having difficulty lately in selecting gears smoothly....
The bike would`nt change down correctly and I thought it was either the selector fork or a clutch problem, but I wasnt getting any clutch slippage or dragging?

I asked Bournemouth Kawasaki what their opinion was (difficult when they are 26 odd miles away and without actually seeing the bike) and the guy there said that he had a few complaints about this, especially on higher mileage bikes that are used all year round..... THE PROBLEM IS CRAP BUILDING UP IN THE SHAFT THAT HOLDS THE GEAR LEVER! If you take the left rearset off and remove the lever, coat it in a good smoothering of high quality grease and put it back together it resloves the problem. BINGO!

FIXED!

Cool, not that I am having probs atm, but if I do, I know what to start looking at, rather than swearing profusely at it. ;D

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nice tip there mate..thanks

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This is a common problem on ZX9's as well, had one before the Z

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yeah, i hv experienced couple occasion....shifting from1to2 slow move and it comes to neutral...arrgghh but ppl say its norm of kwak...

[zrick]

Well yes i seem to have a lot of neuterals since new ,ive allways understood that zs have a neuteral between 5th/6th so a few have said, well may b im not positve enough but some times ive found them between other gears up 7 down the box.