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gearin down
« on: 19 March 2012, 09:01:03 pm »
hi went out on my fazer last night and wen was gearing down it seamed to get all mest up and did not seam to do out  wen you gear down slow one at a time you have to just pop the clutch out slightly then its pops in but if you hold the clutch in and gear down from 6 to first in one go ......it just dose nout and you carnt click up for neautral help please ...........02 reg 14000 miles ... i am new to bikes so have not got a clue  the clutch handle has about 2-5 mm play on it 

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #1 on: 19 March 2012, 09:08:25 pm »
Fazer gearboxes are a bit like that My FZS6 was like it and my FZ6S2 is the same

Take your time changing down and always get it finished before you come to a standstill
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Re: gearin down
« Reply #2 on: 19 March 2012, 09:40:09 pm »
Dolau, did you understand all that or  just took a lucky guess?  :lol

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2012, 12:59:54 am »
if you hold the clutch in and gear down from 6 to first in one go ......it just dose nout and you carnt click up for neautral

As dolau suggests, make sure you finish block-shifting before you come to a halt, that way, as you've found, you can just let the clutch out a bit and the gears should re-engage to let you flick it back up into neutral.

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2012, 01:00:27 am »
Dolau, did you understand all that or  just took a lucky guess?  :lol

It was more comprehensible than a post by Ug! :pokefun

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2012, 01:08:11 am »
Christ, the last time I dropped 3 gears in one go I locked up the rear end on an approach to a roundabout, left a 50 yard skid-mark behind me that _wasn't_ rubber !

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #6 on: 20 March 2012, 06:59:35 am »
ear dats knot troo, eye kann proppa wen eye wont two
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Re: gearin down
« Reply #7 on: 20 March 2012, 03:14:38 pm »
Not sure about anyone else but I always make sure I let the clutch out slightly for every shift to make sure the gears mesh correctly ready for the next shift. I'm pretty sure thats how I was taught when I learnt during the summer and ive never had a problem unless I manage to fail and not kick the leaver up enough - makes a horrible grind when that happens but it pops back in pretty much immediately.

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #8 on: 20 March 2012, 09:59:21 pm »
My gear changes always felt wrong until i went on an advanced riding coursed.

They said i need to blip the throttle before i changed down, since doing it, its smooth as hell  ;)

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Re: gearin down
« Reply #9 on: 20 March 2012, 11:43:34 pm »
As fazerjake say's blip the throttle on the way down makes all the difference, and use the gears to adjust your speed utilising engine braking,
I can't think of a time when I would want to go down 6th to 1st in one go, saying that though last bike had a gear indicator on it ,I'm always forgetting what gear I'm in and trying to pull off in too high a gear...