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bobbybrown

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A little trick I started doing several months ago in regards to shifting into first from a stop is to quickly pull the clutch lever 2-3 times and then shift and it goes in buttery smooth.
 
yes...wear and tear eats up fast many components..if you have the same problem just drain, flush carefully , fill again and bleed very seriously the system and with chance of 99.9% all will be as good as new...
 
Temporary solution implies something needing to be fixed. Nothing needs to be fixed. It's just the nature of a wet clutch. On a cable clutch you just live with it, on a hydraulic clutch, you can build pressure so to speak. Little different on a dry clutch.
 
If pumping the lever helps, you probably will make some gain by bleeding clutch hydraulic - as I am forever advocating on here - including at the master cylinder bleed nipple.
Do you have a stock clutch slave cylinder P@trick?
 
P@.. I know you put a lot of miles on your bike, have you flushed the clutch fluid before? I'm just trying to figure out if it's the age of the fluid that may do that..
 
Clutch fluid has been changed 3 times and bled etc etc. It's always clunked slightly into first from day one as has most of my other bikes. I have a STM 28mm slave on it and stock master but all going to the new slave did was change how the lever pulls.

Honestly it's not anything that alarms me. I only brought up the quick pumps on the lever as someone mentioned the slight clunking into 1st gear with their wet clutch. Though it might ease their mind.
 
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