8k revs and nothing happens!!!! help

Do you mean the sprocket is loose and spinning on the output shaft or the chain is jumping teeth? The first I can believe, surprising that the latter is mistakable for clutch slip (having said that, it's never happened to me).

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Originally Posted by Well Oiled

Do you mean the sprocket is loose and spinning on the output shaft or the chain is jumping teeth? The first I can believe, surprising that the latter is mistakable for clutch slip (having said that, it's never happened to me).

The latter mate. Indeed can be mistaken a slipping clutch. At gentle acceleration it's all normal but be a bit more enthusiastic and the revs of course rise but you go no where fast .


Ben

[Blue Flame]

I noticed the very same thing today on a dual carriageway on-ramp.

Opened her up - hit about the 8K and then the same scenario "engines still reving and revs go up"

... but then I noticed that my back wheel was spinning and kickin out to the side. Solution - "Close throttle slightly go home an change pants".

Lovely day today but the roads are still too greasy

Originally Posted by Blue Flame

I noticed the very same thing today on a dual carriageway on-ramp.

Opened her up - hit about the 8K and then the same scenario "engines still reving and revs go up"

... but then I noticed that my back wheel was spinning and kickin out to the side. Solution - "Close throttle slightly go home an change pants".

Lovely day today but the roads are still too greasy

i used to love doing this on the 650 but the first time i did it on the 1000 i thought it was going to kill me

Originally Posted by Well Oiled

If the bike is in gear and the engines doing 8k revs it can only be the clutch. The chain can't "slip" it can only jump off the sprocket and you'd really know about it if that happened.

Don't forget there are two cable adjustment - one at the lever end on the handlebars and one at the casing end. Make sure both of these are correctly adjusted.

yes, there is an adjustment at both ends of the cable and NEITHER are the clutch adjustment they are both CABLE adjustments

cable fiddling is why clutches get out of adjustment, there is a misconception that the cable is how you adjust the clutch, NOT

under sprocket cover there is pushrod & locknut that the cable mechanism attaches to, this is clutch adjustment

first back off on cable adjustments so cable is loose, then loosten adjuster locknut, back off on adjuster screw till loose, then turn in till it barely begines to depress clutch plates, then back off 1/8 turn clutch is now adjusted, now adjust cable

Sv clutch is very robust, more than likely it's just out of adjustment, my original clutch lasted over 100,000 miles and even then I only replaces fibre plates & springs, at 135k everything else is still original, how did it last so long..... I never fiddled with the cable, I checked clutch adjustment only at every minor service interval 3500-4000 miles and never fiddled inbetween

how did I treat clutch, I used it for shifts and didn't do clutchless shifts, I slipped clutch in low speed manuvering and should add, I rode a lot of miles on single track trails standing on pegs in 1st & second gear slipping clutch (nobody told me the SV isn't a trials bike )

Originally Posted by 01 sv650s

it might be the air filter - it could be blocked so the engine cant suck in enough air for the high revs

No, blocked are filter will stop it from reving too