Today I went out with a well greased chain, clean wheel, swing arm, chain guard. I also made a chain adjustment just to answer my own question? I turned the adjust screws 2-flats, tightened the axle, snugged the nuts, split a cotter like a V thru the axle/nut.
Ask me how huge did that change the shifting? And all this time I knew it would. Why do I procrastinate and know that took a lot of what I might give the wording for a better term is, 'slipper lash?'
Yeah, that took a lot of shiftime to lash up and 'slipper slap.' So call it slipper slap as you work that clutch the same way but wow, WOT a difference a shift makes. It's that smooth in that section, let alone FO mode.
So look at what is happening. I tore up 4th gear on the '08, knowing I had a too loose a chain, did nothing about it. This bike is going to find that sweet spot and it might be here? Do I try getting it closer to factory spec? Lose more slip-slap?
The deal here is, Rook, do I park my aluminum toothed bike, use it for trackday only, salvage sprocket time, forget any extra wear time is the street time. Or do I return back to steel for both street and track? Right now, me knowing how critical a shift is, to WOT a miss is, to what a slap is beginning to tell me to do, and you are losing limp or creating the limp at the chain. That is the last thing we want.
Make sense I come back within hours knowing the difference between slapping myself for a too lose chain, have the clutch basket tell me that along with 4th gear? I passed a few semi's in tandem. I got a run up on them so I know I had it in 2nd gear. I think I lifted [off the gas] in 4th once I passed them. Before the chain adjust, I think I tagged 5th [dog slapping is missed that gear] once with this R, because of that chain being that loose.
Today? A different animal.
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