Cheers for the advice everyone!
Having checked through everything, and desperately wanting to not jinx it, but things seem to have improved...
Firstly, good advice on the center stand, it wasn't the issue, but I can see how it would be if that rubber stop fell off!
I re-adjusted my clutch, but it didn't seem to help much, but my chain was a bit too tight. Only slightly, but definitely a touch less than the minimum of 30mm it says in the book - so I adjusted that and slackened it off a touch. I then went out for a ride and it seemed marginally improved, however I fear for the most part this issue might have been down to the idiot in the saddle. It looks like the shifter has been lowered on the splines slightly at some point and I reckon my toe was holding it up slightly whilst riding, so after shifting I was inadvertently not letting it fully return. I went out for a ride last night after doing the chain and was consciously keeping my foot angled on the peg so as to not rest on the shifter and I didn't have any problems at all, it seemed to be shifting absolutely fine. Slightly embarrassing but there you go! :lol
As I said, I don't want to jinx it, but touch wood it seems to be OK now. Hopefully that is all that was wrong with it. I'll keep you posted though...
Cheers all!
Having checked through everything, and desperately wanting to not jinx it, but things seem to have improved...
Firstly, good advice on the center stand, it wasn't the issue, but I can see how it would be if that rubber stop fell off!
I re-adjusted my clutch, but it didn't seem to help much, but my chain was a bit too tight. Only slightly, but definitely a touch less than the minimum of 30mm it says in the book - so I adjusted that and slackened it off a touch. I then went out for a ride and it seemed marginally improved, however I fear for the most part this issue might have been down to the idiot in the saddle. It looks like the shifter has been lowered on the splines slightly at some point and I reckon my toe was holding it up slightly whilst riding, so after shifting I was inadvertently not letting it fully return. I went out for a ride last night after doing the chain and was consciously keeping my foot angled on the peg so as to not rest on the shifter and I didn't have any problems at all, it seemed to be shifting absolutely fine. Slightly embarrassing but there you go! :lol
As I said, I don't want to jinx it, but touch wood it seems to be OK now. Hopefully that is all that was wrong with it. I'll keep you posted though...
Cheers all!