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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NE. Indiana
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Check your cables.
Just installed a new clutch cable today, with less than 3000 miles on the clock. 2012, it's not my first problem with this bike.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: North Texas
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Looks like it had gotten pinched. Where?
Gray-haired riders don’t get that way from pure luck.
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1st Gear
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NE. Indiana
Posts: 17
About 12 inches down from the clutch lever where the cable rides over the frame for the fairing frame at the neck. I bought the bike with a little over 200 hundred miles on it and had issues with turning the handle bars. Sometime I couldn't turn them at all, like it was locked. I found some of the cabling routed wrong. I ran the clutch cable through the loops on the frame but did not see the damaged part. The other issue with turning was the steering lock itself. I ended up using WD-40 with the red straw on it and sticking it right in the ignition and spraying and moving the bars back and forth, and to my suprise metal plates fell out of the bottom of the ignition and landed on the ground.
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4th Gear
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Deming New mexico
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what the eff???
Never ride faster than your angels can fly
2nd Gear
Join Date: May 2010
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Benicia, CA
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What the hell?
"In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV." R. Pirsig
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Soon, we ride.
AKA JD Mader or you can call me "Dan" just not early for dinner.
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1st Gear
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NE. Indiana
Posts: 17
I took a picture of some of the metal plates that fell out of the ignition lock that I mentioned earlier.
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