Looking for a Mechanic

[CatatonicBug]

You'll have a false neutral between all the gears

Really?? No such thing for me. No matter how lightly I tap the lever, it either shifts or it doesn't. That's true for up- or down-shifting.

[DGXSER]

Not sure if it is because of the old return spring or not, I do not think it would be really, but I do find that from time to tiem if I do not shift like I mean it, I will get that "false neutral" typically between 3 and 4.

The real fun is getting it back into gear then, if you can't find it...grind it.

[Wildkat]

The real fun is getting it back into gear then, if you can't find it...grind it.

No doubt... I even find myself apologizing to my bike when I do that...

lol

[trbig]

No doubt... I even find myself apologizing to my bike when I do that...

Really!? My thoughts are usually along the lines of, "Take THAT!! Serves you right you stupid @$&*$!!!" lol. It all goes along with the "Treat her rough sometimes" thing.. lol.


Tod

[latexeses]

trbig,

You better wear your helmet all the time at the next rally you get to. Liable to take a margarita glass in the back of the head.

[Larrym]

Ice Breaker

Any Luck yet finding someone who's already "tooled up" in your neck of the bluegrass??

Well, Open this thread and post to it in the suggested format:

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...light=kentucky

Also, You've got neighbors to the north of you in Tennessee. (Not so far north that they Talk like D**M Yankees, hopefully!)

Just a matter of giving them a holler. Not on a Sunday morning, though. We all like rest.

[Wildkat]

Really!? My thoughts are usually along the lines of, "Take THAT!! Serves you right you stupid @$&*$!!!" It all goes along with the "Treat her rough sometimes" thing..

And yet... your bike loves you anyway...
But then, I've suspected for quite some time that she actually likes it rough...
lol

trbig,

You better wear your helmet all the time at the next rally you get to. Liable to take a margarita glass in the back of the head.

Now it makes more sense as to why it's always plastic cups that are used at these rallies... preservation of grey matter... at least, from external attacks...
lol

[Guy_b_g]

I once took a coffee cup to the back of the head after I made an ill considered remark to my ex. For a split second I actually considered hitting a woman. I wish I had been wearing my helmet then!

[slow mo]

false neutral

hi all !! i found that when i first got my bike i would get false neutrals;; i then discovered that if i was a litte more aggressive when shifting i didnt get them anymore;; so now i tend to make all my shifts at about 4500 rpm;; hope this helps ,,ride safe slow mo!!

[XSokieSPECIAL]

After all that we get the best answer from the smartest of the 3 stooges (lol Moe). You have to shift these babies like a real man ( no offense Kat) or they won't go. Just cowboy up bro. See what happens.

[The Lorax]

Any Luck yet finding someone who's already "tooled up" in your neck of the bluegrass??

Well, Open this thread and post to it in the suggested format:

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...light=kentucky

Also, You've got neighbors to the north of you in Tennessee. (Not so far north that they Talk like D**M Yankees, hopefully!)

Just a matter of giving them a holler. Not on a Sunday morning, though. We all like rest.

Uh, Tennessee is South of Kentucky, art least it was last time I drove through there. Seriously though, take a look over in the "social groups", you'll find the SWOXS riders, we're idiots, decent with a wrench and willing to travel on the odd occaision, just ask Carl "Varnae". If you can get her up to the Nati, there are several of us there, as well as one REALLY big pinhead that lives just outside Dayton, OH, I don't mind an hours run south for some wrenchin' and fellowship. look us up, we're alright guys, I promise . have a nice day and ride safe

[Larrym]

5'th Grade Revisited

Ha!! Only someone who cared about whether Kentucky was North or South of Tennessee would have caught me!

Congratulations, Lorax!!

You're an XS owner and you're smarter than a fifth grader!!

[DGXSER]

Don't feel to bad Larry. Lexington Ky is maybe an hour or so South of Cincinnati Ohio. It is about an hour or so from the Kentucky Indiana border and yet for some reason he is being directed toward Illinois??

As stated before by Lorax and myself, we can definitely help you out. Let us know what your thoughts are.

[mrjoshuad28]

Welcome to the site and to world of XS owners. Lexington is closer to Cincinnati than Chillicothe I think. We have a member of our "local" XS owners group who lives in Chillicothe area and comes to Cincy for work on their bike. Cincy is alot closer than any Illinois area for sure.

We periodically have a group repair session around here. So if you can wait a bit till "class" is in session, and get it here to Cincy area, I would think we could make something happen on that. We have a few folks who could do that repair, I did mine also about one month after I got it. Even knew about the issue from reading here before I bought it, I just did not realize how hard I had to get on it for it to reveal itself.

Anyway, yeah, there are folks here in Cincy who could help you out, most likely anyway. I travel for work so much it is hard to pin me down for time (he type sform a hotel room in Louisville). It is much better though to show you how and let you do the work if you want to learn it. BTW, got any pictures, be nice to see what it looks like and how corroded things might be ahead of time.

I would definitely be interested in something like this. Sorry it's been a while since I have replied, I had kinda gotten caught up with work and forgot to come back to the site. A few asked for a better description of the problem. When you shift into 2nd gear, if you give it much gas at all after letting out the clutch, it feels like the gear is slipping. If you take it easy then it's fine. It feels like the gear is trying to engage but can't. Here are a couple pictures of the bike.

[DGXSER]

Very nice looking bike!! You know, I just today picked up another 81 SH. Your bike definitely sounds liek you need the typical 2nd gear repair as outlined in the tech tips on dremel repair. As luck may have it, if my project bike runs, I will be performing this repair on it as well.

I will let you know when I get ready to do that, hopefully it will run and I will get to that.