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04-08-07, 08:56 PM

Its a funny one this. If you try to get the bike into neutral while still doing a fair speed the shafts in the gearbox won't be at all happy. You get the same effect if you select down too many gears too quickly when slowing for the lights for instance. On the GSX if I go from 6th to 3rd while coasting from say 50mph it sounds like the gearbox is going to drop out of the bike, it almost bangs into gear and thats with the clutch in. I can't remember the details but the shafts with all the cogs in the gearbox are rotating at different speeds and you are ok with synchromesh selecting once or twice but if you keep going then the difference in rotational speed between the two shafts gets too great and they slam together instead of meshing smoothly.

To cut a long story short just pull your clutch in....thats what I used to do down long gradients on a CBR1000 to save on fuel.

04-08-07, 08:56 PM	#4
RhythmJunkie Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Ridding/Rolling on Neutral? Its a funny one this. If you try to get the bike into neutral while still doing a fair speed the shafts in the gearbox won't be at all happy. You get the same effect if you select down too many gears too quickly when slowing for the lights for instance. On the GSX if I go from 6th to 3rd while coasting from say 50mph it sounds like the gearbox is going to drop out of the bike, it almost bangs into gear and thats with the clutch in. I can't remember the details but the shafts with all the cogs in the gearbox are rotating at different speeds and you are ok with synchromesh selecting once or twice but if you keep going then the difference in rotational speed between the two shafts gets too great and they slam together instead of meshing smoothly. To cut a long story short just pull your clutch in....thats what I used to do down long gradients on a CBR1000 to save on fuel.