Shifts gear when resting foot on shifter? HELP

There is nothing wrong with your bike or there wasn't until you rode the
shift drum.

Bottom line : Keep your foot away from applying pressure until you are ready
to shift.

 

Killfile me while you're at it, idiot.

 

Grendel was also a character in Beowulf, if I'm not mistaken.

On the topic... keep your foot off the shift lever, unless you're in the
process of shifting. Simple solution. The bike wanting to shift when you
have your foot on the lever isn't a flaw in the machinery, it's a flaw in
the way you're operating the machinery. It doesn't matter that you used to
do this all the time with other bikes. Maybe those other bikes had loose,
sloppy transmissions that allowed you to get away with such laziness. Don't
know for sure, but it doesn't really matter. Just retrain yourself to keep
your foot on the peg, then move it to shift, and when you've shifted move it
back to the peg.

My guess is that the majority of the other 40+ posts in this thread (that I
haven't read yet) are telling you this same thing.

 

He wasn't attacking you. It was a funny play on words from a typo.
Just like the "police help Dog bite victim" headlines. He wasn't saying
anything about you or your typing ability or your intelligence.
It was a simple joke. chill dude.

Bruce

 

For about the 10th time, Timberwoof's joke about Beowulf being written in
Morse code (spurred by your typo) was not an "attack" on you. I read it as a
lighthearted joke at no one's expense, not a scornful condemnation.

Your inflammatory reaction and hair-trigger killfiling were pretty
surprising to me. I think you might have over-reacted a bit in the first
place, because it certainly never seemed to me (nor to many others, judging
by the posts here) that anyone was ridiculing you for a simple typo.

Just for the record, the above comments were not meant as an attack, but
simply as friendly advice.

 

Sorry for having bad technique guys. This is my first bike, and until the
past 2 months I haven't ridden it heavily. Meaning mostly I did straight
line highway type rides. NOw however I am doing twisties. Good thing that
this happened as you are all correct in that I have bad technique. Hopefully
the dealer will be able to tell me if I have done permanent damage to the
bike or not. Thanks all for your info.

 

::Blush::

Thank you, P.

 

Timberwoof wrote:When I first read Swack Daddy's howls of outrage at my dotty wit,
I

don't sweat he - he overreacted big-time your post was harmless and amusing
his outrage and willy-nilly killfile trigger are funny and sad

LOL - I like that.

Bruce

 

Oh, and learn to snip sigs as well.

<aside>

He's going to have an awfully boring time of it, only talking to
himself, isn't he?

 

And I.

Swack's probably being measured for the optional extra saddlebags.

 

Yeah... I've done that before, too. Posted a message that later one I wish I
could have worded differently, though no harm was intended.

It does make one wonder: why the over-sensitivity? People are people, I
guess, to quote an '80s band that I didn't really listen to that much.

 

You are correct.

Mirko
96 7R

 

No apology necessary. Sorry you've been doing mostly straight line highway
rides.

Learning how to ride better is a never-ending process. Thank goodness it's
so much fun!

Good luck with the bike. Hopefully you won't need major repairs.

 

Did this poor guy ever get an answer to his question? (besides"keep your
foot off the shift lever" I couldn't help that one!)

 

Just as well he's allready killfiled you, with a comment like that . . .

 

Unfortunately, I didn't crosspost my answer to every newsgroup on
usenet. So I shall commit the sin of crossposting and hope I will not
go to hell...

You do have to remove the clutch basket to get access to this spring.
It takes about an hour and you might have to improvise a tool for
removing the lock nut.

It is the spring that pushes the pawl into the shift drum. My spring
appeared not have much resiliance, but I could bend it at an extreme
angle and shoehorn it back in there. After that, the shifts had a very
positive snap. I could once again do clutchless wheelies when shifting.
My second gear which was completely unusable now was 100% reliable and
hit the rear tire hard.

I'm sure a local industrial supplier of springs could fabricate one of
better quality spring steel while you wait. Any town or city that has
industry should have such a shop that can make springs within a half an
hour drive.

My shifting was rather iffy from the beginning on my F4 and deteriated
to skipping out of gears, onto the next, or just hammering the gears.
Replacing the gears that had extrememly worn dogs seemed to have cured
it. For a few thousand miles. That's when I knew something was wrong
and tried putting the squeeze on this spring. I'm glad I found it. The
difference in shifting feel gave me back complete confidence the bike
could be abused once again.

This spring gives shifting its entire feel. A weak spring can give the
false impression of a "notchy" feel when actually its the dogs banging
hard at the last moment. A strong spring will mate the gears instantly
giving quiet shifts. This is possible as the gears are short and narrow
with little mass. My case was there was little spring pressure on the
pawl to keep the shift drums snapping into place. The gears would
sometimes wander around and making a rattling noise that appeared to
come from the valve train! Putting the squeeze into this spring made my
engine quieter too.

It was an evil spring. This spring tormented me for 50,000 miles until
I found it. I hope this isn't a problem with all Hondas. If it is, I
hope they fixed it. I need to buy a new bike soon. Some moron decided
to steal mine recently.