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Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:27 PM
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nagg, what are you riding? have you tried to GP shift it?
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Spindrift
Yea you bent something, my bike used to do that when the shifter rod wasn't adusted right.
yeah i guess ill have to figure out whats bent. thats deff a hassle in my ass.

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nagg, what are you riding? have you tried to GP shift it?
08 r1, and yes i tried it last night, but i couldnt really get a feel for it, because it wasnt wanting to shift right so i swapped it back just to get the bike back to the normal, but it still wants to act up either way.
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:40 PM
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gp shift is the way to go. it sucks so bad trying to slide your foot under the shifter trying to upshift powering back on post apex on a left hander.
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:44 PM
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guess once im done eating this food, ill go back out and have it again. see if i cant figure it out.
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:47 PM
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^ what are you trying to do?
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:48 PM
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nevermind... GP shift here, regular shift feels weird. took me about 2 days of riding to get the hang of it.
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:51 PM
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im trying to get my bike to stop not shifting right. thats all i care about if i can get that done ill gp shift it again. but it seems hard enough to accomplish SHIFTING IN GENERAL. lol
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:53 PM
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whats it doing, maybe your clutch needs adjusting, maybe its not releasing totally, and hence the stubborn shifting. Ive seen my boys 07 R1 do that, we adjusted it and we've never had a problem since
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 01:54 PM
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also a lot of slack in the shifter arm. etc could be making the shifter no be able to go thru its motion fully, like hitting something. check for that too
Old Oct 25, 2009 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by snikwad
also a lot of slack in the shifter arm. etc could be making the shifter no be able to go thru its motion fully, like hitting something. check for that too
honestly it kind of feels like thats the issue like it gets hung up on something. ill have to readjust the arm then make sure its not hitting anything. heading outside now to tinker with it.

but now that i think about it, it still did that when it was gp shifted, and that has the connector all the way above everything that it would hit on unless its hitting on something towards the back....... hmmmm



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