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I love my SMT, don't get me wrong.
It's most comfortable bike I have ever owned without comprimising sportivity thanks to the great WP en Brembo set-up.
Handling and steering is fantastic, on good roads and crappy roads, over speedbumps, on straights, lonfg winding turns and in hairpins. Fabulous!!
But my gearbox...
I didn't have the false neutrals you hear about but ever since somewhere around 5000km I started having shifting issues oocasionally. As I already mentioned in this topic, O often felt something like a kickback from the shifting lever, like a wrong clutchless shift.
After the 7500km service it seemed better and I was a happy camper. Shifting at higher revs had also proved to smoothen things up a bit.
Came back from a 3760km Alp trip and things have taken a bad turn for the worse.
The kickback is terrible, half of the time in too high or too low a gear because I dread shifting! :frown:
I'm getting lots of false neutrals now (once or twice every 100km) and that is no fun when you're racing towards a hairpin in Austria, shifting back and expecting some good old V-Twin engine braking!
It's terrible to have to kick the bike in gear from a false neutral and feels like you're really molesting the gearbox. Nevermind the hairpin coming up way faster than you expected...
So I'm gonnan take the bike in early for its 15000km service (only done a bit over 13000 now) and if they can't fix it I think I'll be trading it in...
It's most comfortable bike I have ever owned without comprimising sportivity thanks to the great WP en Brembo set-up.
Handling and steering is fantastic, on good roads and crappy roads, over speedbumps, on straights, lonfg winding turns and in hairpins. Fabulous!!
But my gearbox...
I didn't have the false neutrals you hear about but ever since somewhere around 5000km I started having shifting issues oocasionally. As I already mentioned in this topic, O often felt something like a kickback from the shifting lever, like a wrong clutchless shift.
After the 7500km service it seemed better and I was a happy camper. Shifting at higher revs had also proved to smoothen things up a bit.
Came back from a 3760km Alp trip and things have taken a bad turn for the worse.
The kickback is terrible, half of the time in too high or too low a gear because I dread shifting! :frown:
I'm getting lots of false neutrals now (once or twice every 100km) and that is no fun when you're racing towards a hairpin in Austria, shifting back and expecting some good old V-Twin engine braking!
So I'm gonnan take the bike in early for its 15000km service (only done a bit over 13000 now) and if they can't fix it I think I'll be trading it in...