I know I've asked before but...

[Anonymous]

I cant find the old post.

Bike is running great. However if I am in any gear besides first, giving it any throttle beyond around 7,000 RPM causes it to slip out of gear. What are the possibilities? I figure this could be dangerous since going into turns you need to roll on the throttle otherwise the bike will stand up and not turn as effective. I would hate to have the bike stand up in a curve!Could the clutch lever be not loose enough? There is not really any slack that I can feel right now.

[SqDancerLynn1]

If there is no free play in the clutch it could be the clutch slipping rather than the trans, especially since it does it in more than one gear. Fix the clutch cable first.

[Anonymous]

If your bike is popping out of one gear into another, or into a false neutral, you've got problems assuming your shifting the lever with a good swift motion. If it's the clutch slipping that's just regular maintenance and relatively cheap to fix. My 400 pops out of 2nd into neutral if I'm wailing on it so I've chosen to live with it.

Steve

[Anonymous]

If your bike is popping out of one gear into another, or into a false neutral, you've got problems assuming your shifting the lever with a good swift motion. If it's the clutch slipping that's just regular maintenance and relatively cheap to fix. My 400 pops out of 2nd into neutral if I'm wailing on it so I've chosen to live with it.

Steve

If this is something I choose to live with for a while....do you ever have a problem with your 400 slipping out of gear on a corner and the bike not turning effectively...thats my only worry...rather not hit any oncoming trucks or anything.

I know you cant tell me what my bike is going to do...just wondering if you have ever had a problem

[Anonymous]

The worst thing that's happened to me so far was that I got stuck in between 5th and 6th and could not get into gear again. I had to pull off on the side of the highway. What I didn't try to do was upshift so maybe I didn't have to pull off.

As for corners, if you know what it takes to jump out of gear train yourself not to do it. Freewheeling through a downhill corner can also be scary and dangerous so if this is a frequent problem I would fix it. Unfortunately it's not like a car where you can just hold on to the shifter to prevent it from jumping out of gear.

Steve