How to reduce the loud knock when you put it in first gear?

[2dogs]

2Dogs: thanks for feedback. Been trying to fig this out on mine and have found a procedure that worked consequently the last five times it was started on today's ride.

Upon stopping I leave it in 1st gear (not sure this has to do with anything; just the way I did it today). Upon cranking, have your thumb on the shifter and the instant it starts, hit the shifter. Don't wait for the panel to light up. When panel lights up I find that I am in 1st gear, no clunk occurred, and can then shift to reverse, if desired, again, without a clunk.

This situation of no clunking has happened on and off throughout the summer and it was only today that i was able to repeat it the last several times I stopped and started on the way home.

Not sure when I'll get to try it again since the forcast now calls for really cold and who knows when a warm day with come again. Can't wait to see if its works.

It takes a few times of missing it to find it. I'm going to play around with your method to see if I can get it to work. It just might be better than the way I'm doing it. We've got 14" of white stuff on the ground here now so it will be a while until I start it again.

 

[BajaRon]

It's not a problem... So I ignore it. I've had a lot of constant mesh transmission machines over the years. Every one of them did it. It's like the sun coming up in the morning. You may like it. You may not. But it's best to learn to live with it because you aren't going to stop it. There are many more important things to expend your aggravation on!

 

[2dogs]

It's just a little competition between me and the tranny and nothing more. Sometimes I win and sometimes the tranny wins.

 

[BajaRon]

It's just a little competition between me and the tranny and nothing more. Sometimes I win and sometimes the tranny wins.

I figure if I can get it to run. It's going to be fun! It may clunk. But it's not junk! You may laugh as I go by. But I'll be having too much fun to care as to why!

In short... It's All Good!

 

[Bangorbob]

I don't know what is worse-the clunk into R and/or 1st OR the clunk of my knees. I know this doesn't help, but a little humor may go a long way. Almost every ride I had has done this. Start it, ride it and enjoy life as life itself is wayyyyy to short.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I figure if I can get it to run. It's going to be fun! It may clunk. But it's not junk! You may laugh as I go by. But I'll be having too much fun to care as to why!

My, my, you is a poet, and we didn't know it! :roflblack:

 

[SLICE]

i have Harley hearing/ gun range hearing/factory hearing/Death metal concert hearing.
i doubt i could hear a clunk with a deatherscope.

 

[ulflyer]

It takes a few times of missing it to find it. I'm going to play around with your method to see if I can get it to work. It just might be better than the way I'm doing it. We've got 14" of white stuff on the ground here now so it will be a while until I start it again.

Same here; its a challenge trying to ''beat the system". Just to clarify any misconception in my thread above when i said "have your thumb on the shifter.....", I meant to say be ready to press it the instant the motor starts.

 

[ClayJ]

You know, I asked about the clunk 2 years ago when I bought the bike. "It's no big deal" everyone said. Then my drive sprocket stripped out and left me in the middle of a major highway leaving me with no drive power.

And here you are asking "What about the big clunk"?
"It's no big deal" everyone says.
...

I wonder if the big clunk really is a big deal. It does get transferred all the way to to the rear wheel, so it does go through the drive sprocket.
I could swear it got louder and more powerful with time.

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

You know, I asked about the clunk 2 years ago when I bought the bike. "It's no big deal" everyone said. Then my drive sprocket stripped out and left me in the middle of a major highway leaving me with no drive power.

And here you are asking "What about the big clunk"?
"It's no big deal" everyone says.
...

I wonder if the big clunk really is a big deal. It does get transferred all the way to to the rear wheel, so it does go through the drive sprocket.
I could swear it got louder and more powerful with time.

The ...CLUNK ... has Nothing to do with the front Sprocket issue , they arn't related ..... All mtc's that have gears that are Straight cut ....like the Spyders .... have the same CLUNK ...... JMHO .... Mike :thumbup: