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05-23-2008, 01:16 PM
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| Clunked into first gear   Join Date: May 2008
Bike: '08 Suzuki C50T
Location: Cottage Grove, MN (Twin Cities)
Posts: 249
|  Gear Shift Linkage...OOPS!
So yesterday I finally received John's Kit forward controls. Went out and put them on, and fell in love with them. They're great! Part of the install requires lengthening the shift linkage, with parts that he supplies. Very easy to do. Well I put everything back together, took it around the parking lot, parked it. Took it this morning to go to work, and when I exited the interstate and started slowing for the turn, I tried to downshift. Tried being the key word here. I reached out to hit the toe shifter and missed!  Missed? I've never missed. Try again...missed again. I look down and see the heel toe shifter is not sitting where it should be. Then I see it. The linkage is gone, laying somewhere on 15 miles of interstate. Damn. So now I'm stopped at a fairly busy intersection, in the front of the line of the left turn lane, stuck in 5th gear, and wondering what I'm going to do. I'm as far on the shoulder as I can be, but still preventing traffic from flowing. Damn again. Light turns green, I rev the bike and limp it across the intersection and park it in a movie theater parking lot. I think I probably looked pretty funny, revved engine moving at like 5 mph. Haha. Oh well. My own fault, I had a brain fart and forgot to tighten the nuts after I installed the linkage.  At least nothing is broken, just missing a part.This sucks!  |
