What have you done to bike » Moved clutch engagement inwards.

Every bike I have owned prior to this has had a cable clutch, and I adjusted all of them so that the clutch grabbed fully at about 70% of its full range. This ensured I had plenty of room to slip the clutch if needed, but also had positive range after fully engaged for peace of mind.

The RS from the stealership only seemed to fully grab at the very end of the throw 95%+. I saw multiple threads talking about how its not adjustable or get different levers or just get used to it. blah blah blah.

I followed this guide : https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/420892
The range of adjustment is pretty small but now I'm at 80% ish for full engagement. So I feel more at ease with it.

Zitat von cory89123 im Beitrag #1

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Every bike I have owned prior to this has had a cable clutch, and I adjusted all of them so that the clutch grabbed fully at about 70% of its full range. This ensured I had plenty of room to slip the clutch if needed, but also had positive range after fully engaged for peace of mind.

The RS from the stealership only seemed to fully grab at the very end of the throw 95%+. I saw multiple threads talking about how its not adjustable or get different levers or just get used to it. blah blah blah.

I followed this guide : https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/420892
The range of adjustment is pretty small but now I'm at 80% ish for full engagement. So I feel more at ease with it.

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Zitat von duccrazydave im Beitrag #2

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Zitat von cory89123 im Beitrag #1

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Every bike I have owned prior to this has had a cable clutch, and I adjusted all of them so that the clutch grabbed fully at about 70% of its full range. This ensured I had plenty of room to slip the clutch if needed, but also had positive range after fully engaged for peace of mind.

The RS from the stealership only seemed to fully grab at the very end of the throw 95%+. I saw multiple threads talking about how its not adjustable or get different levers or just get used to it. blah blah blah.

I followed this guide :
The range of adjustment is pretty small but now I'm at 80% ish for full engagement. So I feel more at ease with it.

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I'm assuming the 4 positions on the factory clutch lever weren't sufficient. Did you solve your problem with this procedure?

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My 2 RS's and now my GS engages at 25% out when cold and as the engine heats up it moves to 80%, caused me to shoot out of garage a few times, i assumes its expansion of metals or the brake fluid, but not sure.

I followed that guide to adjust the bite point on my GS clutch. It made a difference, but the clutches on the boxer LC engines still seem a bit variable in operation which I think is due to the extremely long two piece push rod used. I suspect thermal expansion of these rods would be enough to cause variations in clutch operation. The reason I adjusted it on my GS was due to problems I had on a tour in Spain in hot weather. I found I was changing down for bends and finding that the bike was effectively freewheeling for a short time due to a delayed clutch engagement. Not what you want heading into a steep downhill hairpin!

Apologies to bring a thread back from the dead but I tried doing this the other day and while I was much happier with the clutch engagement point my quick-shifter wasn't. Any changes up/down needed significantly more force to execute. Ended up undoing my changes and resigned myself to "just get used to it".

Is there a reason the QS would respond like this? Is there a way for it to be adjusted?

THis last fall, I embarrassingly killed the new RT i was test riding right in front of the bmw sales guy because it was adjusted to engage so far out from where mine is lol

I took a sec and adjusted the RT's clutch to match so as not to repeat.

I left mine the same.

Zitat von Peelz im Beitrag #7

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THis last fall, I embarrassingly killed the new RT i was test riding right in front of the bmw sales guy because it was adjusted to engage so far out from where mine is lol

I took a sec and adjusted the RT's clutch to match so as not to repeat.

I left mine the same.

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