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Clutch springs too tight?

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I travel with my bike so i can ride when not working, I have a sprinter van and I work all over and travel 8-9 months a year. We got rained out yesterday and I hit up this little shop. Guy running it has same bike as me but year or two newer and much nicer. I was pickingh is brain about stuff, trying to learn and hes looking over my ride and trys my clutch handle and saws what the hell you got going on. I didn't get what he was saying until he had me try his lutch on his bike, wow his was like 100 times easier to pull. He wanted to know if I had done work on it and I haven't. I knew it pulled hard but just thought it was a bigger bike. anyways he said I should change out the springs. We got cut short and now I am down the road. Why would someone put in these hard to pull springs in the first place or are they covering up some issue? I don't know that much about bikes yet.
 
Some guys with a slipping clutch think they need stiff springs. New stock springs are plenty strong. Get a new OEM cable too and lube it before install
 
I'd start with lubricating the clutch cable, it may just be very dry. If this doesn't help, you may need to replace the cable - it could be ripped inside causing friction. Also make sure there's a bit of play at the clutch lever, the cable shouldn't be very tight.
 
I think I have replaced the clutch cable twice now so far. I lubed it up but still the same, Maybe I'll try and source some used stock springs on Ebay or something.
 
1980GS850 said:
I think I have replaced the clutch cable twice now so far. I lubed it up but still the same, Maybe I'll try and source some used stock springs on Ebay or something.
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Why bother with USED springs? New ones are about $20 for the set of six. Toss in a $10 gasket and a $15 cable, you will have a complete new setup for less than $50.

Somebody put "heavy-duty" springs in there because they detected some slipping. Would you believe it was "used OEM springs" that caused the slipping? :-\\\

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Steve said:
Why bother with USED springs? New ones are about $20 for the set of six. Toss in a $10 gasket and a $15 cable, you will have a complete new setup for less than $50.

Somebody put "heavy-duty" springs in there because they detected some slipping. Would you believe it was "used OEM springs" that caused the slipping? :-\\\

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Good point. Will get to spending some money. Thanks for the information, I'm not very motorcycle technically savvy yet.
 
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