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Skipping?

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I feel like once in a while, if I'm in a high gear and kind of lugging a little, it seems like the shaft or something has a skip. anybody ever have something similar? I changed the gear oil, the rear was filled to the threads, the front was filled until oil was seen about to seep out of the check screw. this is all correct levels right?
 
Your bike has one of the soft rear wheel driven splines. When it starts to slip if just lets go though.

Could you describe in more detail what a "skip" is?
 
I have also had a chain drive bike do this, it just comes out of gear for a split second and back in. I think maybe whoever put the transmission together didn't get some shim in there right.

Hopefully it's the spline as Ed suggests. Easier fix, but it seems a bad spline would let go at high RPM in a low gear and full throttle, not lugging around in a tall one.
 
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Just when I'm in too high of a gear, and lean into it a little it just seems like it has a slight skip. not popping out of gear or anything, it's weird but I'm thinking if its a trans problem or driveline it would be all time. Maybe its the oil?
 
Not the clutch slipping is it?

You sure it's not just a little misfire? You're in New Jersey, you should have someone local like Allie take a quick ride to diagnose the issue.
 
"I feel like once in a while, if I'm in a high gear and kind of lugging a little, it seems like the shaft or something "

there is a shock absorbing mechanism in secondary drive unit that could give you this skipping sensation under lugging.
 
I might actually have a slight misfire, it hiccups a little if im just rolling through a turn and slowly get into the gas again, have to figure out what that is
also, what is tolerable gear shfit noise? I have some noise shifting down and up, mind you I never had a shaft driven bike before, I don't know whats good and whats not, basically everytime I shift I hear a clunk
 
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