3000mi on the 959 so far, trouble free except for one problem that's slowly getting worse I think. The transmission shifter cam or forks intermittently get notchy or feel like something inside there is binding. Shifts are not smooth, the shifter arm sometimes sticks like the cam is jammed or the forks won't move. Once or twice today on a 300mi ride it was actually jammed into 1st gear at a stop, unable to move the shifter at all. This problem comes and goes in 5 or 10 mile intervals (est) while at speed. I'm sportriding hard, but not flogging it. And this isn't the "it's hard to find neutral" problem everybody talks about. When this happens at a stop, neutral IS hard to find, but I know the difference between that and "this thing is really stuck and I have to really pull hard to pop the transmission over into 2nd". This happens with a warm or cold engine, going slow or going fast, hard acceleration or hard engine braking or freewheeling, slowly rolling or standing still. I tried everything, nothing seems to make a big difference. DQS is deactivated, so it's nothing to do with that. No apparent clutch problems. On the way home today I stopped by the bike shop and asked them for ideas, they hadn't run into this problem yet. I'll probably have them do a test ride if it gets worse or at the end of the year, or just ride it until something breaks.
Any ideas out there? My only thought is if there's an oil passage that's a bit blocked maybe some fork or cam bearing somewhere is not getting oil all the time.
Oh, and even with this problem, this is still a fantastic bike.
Any ideas out there? My only thought is if there's an oil passage that's a bit blocked maybe some fork or cam bearing somewhere is not getting oil all the time.
Oh, and even with this problem, this is still a fantastic bike.